November 2022
SUMMARY
- Planning, Building, and Prepping for Holiday Season Mint
November was busy as usual, with the team growing again.
At the start of November we achieved the 61m ₳ staked milestone in the COPI StakePool from over 4,800 delegates.
We created 2 videos and attended a live worldwide panel at the Cardano Summit 2022. Rob and other Cornucopias team members also attended the Crypto A.M. Summit and Awards 2022 in London.
BUSINESS
November
2x new employees joined Cornucopias internal team:
• 1x Senior Developer
• 1x Senior Artist
Total Internal Employees/Contractors: 29
Total working on Cornucopias: 50+
CARDANO SUMMIT 2022
- Produced 2 videos for the global Cardano Summit in Switzerland:
- 10-minute showreel video narrated by Rob and Josh.
- A special COPICafe-style thank you video to Cardano & the Community.
- Interview with Maria Carmo shown at Brazilian Cardano Summit.
- Rob and Josh joined a live panel (via Zoom) alongside 3 other Metaverse projects.
MARKETING
- COPICafe Episode 30 - Interview with ChainPort CEO & CTO.
- Episode 31 - Team interview with Mark (editor & designer).
- Episode 32 - Exclusive leak of how Cornucopias World will be laid out.
- Special Thanksgiving episode released.
ART
- UE5 land sculpting for Zone 1 - Solace nearly complete.
- Zone 2 - Esperanza progressing rapidly with more artists.
- Upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.1, delivering ~20% performance gain and improved world-building tools.
All Cornucopias assets are built internally by our talented team. We DO NOT use off-the-shelf marketplace assets in our UE5 Metaverse or Mobile Game.
PC GAME
- Sprints completed: 32, started: 33.
- High-level planning converted into User Stories.
- UE 5.1 testing proved stable - adopted for all developers, boosting efficiency.
MOBILE GAME
- UE5 Mobile planning continues.
- New gameplay mechanics discussed in COPICafe Ep. 31.
- Mobile Game Design Document nearly complete.
DESKTOP LAUNCHER
- Development continues; scope increased.
- API work ongoing.
- Internal version released & tested.
SOCIAL MEDIA
- Twitter Followers: 42.4k
- Discord Members: 39k
- YouTube Subscribers: 9.84k
- Telegram Members: 4.9k
- Instagram: 2.58k
- Facebook Followers: 1.1k
- COPI StakePool: 64.28m ₳ staked from 4,962 Delegates, 755 Blocks produced
- GYS StakePool: 3.31m ₳ staked from 86 Delegates, 242 Blocks produced
AOB
- Planning for Holiday Season NFT Mint began.
- Cornucopias shortlisted in final 3 for Most Innovative NFT Project of 2022 at Crypto A.M. Summit & Awards.
- As COPI StakePool nears saturation, GYS StakePool recommended as alternative.