August 2022
Summary
August was a huge DELIVERY month for us.
We started delivering on the 4th August by announcing the new COPI StakePool. Within the first weeks it had over 2,000 delegates and over 26m ADA (₳) delegated to it. By the end of the month the figure rose to 3,800 delegates and 48m ₳ - what an incredible launch to a StakePool.
The COPI StakePool which adds to the decentralization of Cardano, immediately responded to its delegates by producing 3 blocks in each of its first 2 epochs and over 30 in its 4th epoch!!
We thank you all for your ongoing support!
That was shortly followed by the usual NFT2Tree "platform test" mint showing off the updates to our NFT Minting Platform.
The NFT2Tree Series 3 mint was a change from the previous "Fastest Finger First" mints and employed a short registration followed by a raffle.
The NFT2Tree sale geared up for the Custom Dome Sale later that month.
The month ended with our Custom Dome NFT Sale, which showed another huge leap in our Cardano minting technology and sold out again in seconds.
The introduction of the COPI Fair Play Algorithm (CFPA) to our minting technology, prevented a lot of unwanted "bots" from minting multiple NFTs. It's early days for CFPA and we gained even more insights after the sale. The algorithm will evolve and get better and better.
Working with our partner DripDropz, we launched NFT Land Staking which was really well received by the Cornucopias Community.
Other activities:
We completed the 2nd round of testing for the mobile pre-alpha game with a limited number of Cornucopias Community Apple iPhone testers.
We completed the artwork for the Custom Dome templates and building showreels.
We released an informational Deck explaining the Utility of the Custom Domes and the various sizes on 19th August 2022.
We released on 23rd August 2022 a video showing off 3 of the UE5 Custom Dome templates including a playable "Bunker Battle" Game.
We completed the creation of the artwork for the NFTs.
We completed the Marketing Strategy to promote the Custom Dome sale.
We continue to work on the Utility of Custom Dome NFTs.
BUSINESS
We focused on the Custom Dome utility, strategy, marketing, NFT website and metadata.
2x new employees joined the Cornucopias internal team and 1x departed in August 2022.
1x Senior DevOps/Multi-player Engineer
1x 3D Animator/Artist
MARKETING
0x new articles for COPIWatch were released.
ART
Unreal Engine 5 land sculpting continues for Zone 1 & 2.
More 2D art has been created for the mobile game - Thanks goes to our new Mobile Artist.
Artwork for the new UE5 Custom Dome Land Video was completed.
PC GAME
Sprints completed: 26 and 27.
High level planning and estimates for the work are now being reviewed.
Multi-player prototype continues.
MVP Island functionality continues.
Home Island Build system continues.
New laser PVP weapons in testing.
New main menus under construction.
Questing system/development continues.
Custom Dome Templates 1, 2 & 3 continues.
MOBILE GAME
A limited version of the Mobile Game was released on Apple iPhones and the first 20 levels have been tested by the small public test group - feedback is currently being analyzed.
Sprints completed 15 and 16.
20 levels were released in the next round of testing.
The Apple iPad test version is now ready for release.
New daily tasks have now been added.
The new tutorial mode is now complete.
Testing registration closed for part 2 of mobile testing.
Development on the Mobile API continues.
A new additional game loop was prototyped and presented to the team. This will go into production next month.
DESKTOP LAUNCHER
Development continues and is progressing well.
API work has progressed very well.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter Followers: 41.4k
Discord Members: 39.7k
YouTube Subscribers: 9.59k
Telegram Members: 5.1k
Instagram: 2.53k
Facebook Followers: 1k
AOB
The latest updates to the minting platform were received extremely well. The Custom Dome Land Deck was released along with the following YouTube video:
In our final weekly team meeting of the month we watched a live demo of 5 players interacting in the UE5 Themed Zone Solace. This was a huge milestone that was not expected to be reached until Q1 2023.
Our COPI StakePool was upgraded to 1.35.3 which is the Vasil version.
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