Digital gaming solutions for Soccer Manager

The client’s offering- Soccer Manager Elite is a massive multiplayer online soccer management game with one huge persistent evergreen game world. The initial task on hand was to improve the user experience of the web application which was handled by the in-house design team at GeekyAnts while also building a mobile application which was the development team’s job.

We began the engagement with the design phase of the website followed by improving mobile and tablet responsiveness of their application. There was brainstorming and discussion on what the client’s expectations were and then wireframes were presented for the screens based on which the design team would work on improving the user experience. Once that was done, the visuals were built using Figma by our team.

Once the designs were completed, the second phase began and the development team took over the development of the website. The website was built using Flutter Web as the main tech stack mainly because of its ability to develop cross platform applications for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web from a single codebase. The client also provided access to their personal GitHub repository which would allow our tech lead to push stable codes.

A lot of brainstorming was done internally to understand the functionality of features. Over the course of the project, we worked on design systems for both dark and light themes After researching the nature of the application, our team also implemented the right color palettes, icons, various graphical elements and components to improve the user’s experience. The team also worked on both the read and write modes for the website while integrating various RPCs and making sure they were working fine when pushed to the blockchain. We also worked on making the UI of apps responsive while ensuring that they work exactly the same on all devices. A drag and drop feature to ensure that the on-screen users were movable was also implemented and we are currently working on implementing a chat option for the app. 

One of the strategies followed by the team to ensure that the development phase was going as planned is to have daily standups internally along with weekly interactions with the client where they would provide us a task list which could be followed. Another important aspect which helped us to ensure that the development phase was optimal was to have peer-to-peer reviews along with extensive brainstorming sessions when a new task came up. The task management tool of choice was Jira.

Testing was critical to ensure that bugs were being kept a check on and that the features which were being implemented were functioning optimally. We also roped in a QA analyst who would perform stringent testing to ensure that the application was up to the mark. We also implemented user acceptance testing as the app was in its Beta phase and implemented changes based on the reviews we received to improve the user experience of the application.