November 2023
SUMMARY
In last month’s update, we talked about focusing on the delivery of our core game loop. In November, we’ve been running full-out towards that goal. Our teams, along with our senior management have developed a 90-day plan that includes:
Base Art completion for Solace-1 and Solace-2
Inventory & XP Systems
Full suite of backed APIs to facilitate those systems ^^
Updates for Calido Valley, including:
Detail Passes
Cornucopias Labs
GTI Store Opening
Land Plot integration
Sector architecture
Emote System & Animations
Additional Avatars & NPC’s
Delivery of Avatar Creator
Public Transport System
Foliage Integration
Mining Starter / POA pack
NorthPoint Hills Release with Mining
And more! This is currently a wishlist, so some of these items may skip the initial release, but as of today we’re on track for delivery by early 2024. Meanwhile, we’re continuing to deploy new fixes and features. Here are the highlights of our November output:
This month we published another UE5 testing release - Sunrise Social (Release 0.2.18) - featuring a persistent day / night cycle. Users can see the local time displayed in the top right corner of the UI, with a 4 hour real time cycle representing 24 hours of astral movement in Cornucopias.
Other features of this release include:
Updated cloud / weather system, making for improved sunrise and sunset events
Emotes - users can hold “directional pad down” on controllers or “B” on keyboards to enter the emote selection menu. Express yourself!
Global chat with emoji support
Night racing - if you thought racing at ludicrous speed was a thrill, try it with headlights
New Avatar / NPC - the dubious Dusty, infamously known as “Rattlesnake”.
Vehicle performance improvements
Technical optimization - CPU, memory and GPU usage have been improved
We announced the return of our NFT staking program - details below
As usual, we’ll be dripping out exclusive new content over the coming weeks to give some hints & previews to the next features we’ll be putting out. Stay tuned!
BUSINESS
Early this month we announced the return of our NFT staking program. For this staking program, users will delegate their ADA and earn COPI based on their NFT holdings for that wallet. While users will receive ADA rewards for their delegated ADA, they will only receive COPI rewards for the qualified NFTs. More details can be found in the Land Staking Deck linked below (click for pdf download):
COPI / ETH liquidity was announced on Uniswap, moving us further towards our goal of being a multichain gaming platform:
November
0x new employees joined the Cornucopias team in November 2023.
MARKETING
Jake released Copi Qwiki material, highlighting models T1 & T3 in his Valley Raceworx Manufacturer series - check it out below:
November saw the release of only one COPI Cafe, but it’s a doozy. Featuring leaks from Solace-2, updates on marketing & testing, as well as heartfelt explorations of Josh & Rob’s beverage choices, it’s a must-see:
ART
All the new releases in addition to continuing work on Solace-1 and Solace-2 have been keeping our Art department pants-on-fire busy, and the results speak for themselves:
We’ll be leaking out new graphics and news as progress on Solace-1 and Solace-2 and the Racing League continues in December.
DEVELOPMENT
The dev team made an excellent “Pre-Alpha” video showcasing our current progress. Check it out below. Spoilers galore! (click image to view video)
WEB
Following our 90 Day Plan, we’re still focused on building support for our upcoming Solace(s) releases & expanded testing groups. Highlights include:
Automating game build delivery
Prepping for GameLift integration
Preparing internal marketplaces for upcoming crosschain sales
Improved security for API endpoints & game sessions
Our Web and backend teams may not be putting out the same kind of showstopping, sexy screenshots that our Art department delivers, but their efforts are critical to our success. We want to make sure that everyone who wants to play Cornucopias has an excellent experience with our product, and our backend efforts are key to delivering it consistently and at scale. These guys and gals are the unsung heroes of our org and are working diligently to get the full functionality of this game in your hands ASAP.
COMMUNITY
The YouTube influencer "Copiboar" made an excellent 20-minute gameplay video for racing and an overview of our new Sunrise Social release, which can both be viewed below:
SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter Followers: 48k
Discord Members: 39.5k
YouTube Subscribers: 11k
Telegram Members: 4.01k
Instagram: 2.50k
Facebook Followers: 1.2k
COPI StakePool: 16.69m ₳ staked from 4,867 Delegates, 2,794 Blocks produced
GYS StakePool: 1.34m ₳ staked from 87 Delegates, 409 Blocks produced
AOB
We’ll start where we began - which is that we’re SO excited to show you all what comes next for Cornucopias. We’re extremely proud of what our team delivered for last month’s conferences, but they’re only shadows of what comes next. Stay tuned for some truly huge announcements in the coming weeks. Until then - stay gold, Corns.
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