Footium Weekly Update
Development Updates
Version 0.1.5 of Footium will be released early next week following feedback received from Phase 3 of the beta so far. This will address fitness refactors, position colour changes and more! We will release the patch notes alongside the new version.
Club Spotlight
New Signing
We are delighted to announce the signing of Roland Kesler, an engine room midfielder! Roland joins the team as an Operations Associate helping to keep Footium ticking! Based in Cape Town, Roland has experience at a number of international fintech and edtech start-ups.
Roland is also the co-founder and head of product for FantasyGo which is Africa’s first daily sports platform where players can win cryptocurrency. Roland is a long-suffering Arsenal fan and his favourite goal is Robin van Persies’ jumping volley for Arsenal against Charlton.
Further UI Previews
At launch there will be offensive and defensive tactics you can toggle to suit your playing style!
Will it be long ball to the big man, gegenpressing your way to titles or a classic counter-attacking football approach? The video below highlights a user toggling through the directness with 1 being more tiki-taka short passing and 10 being hoof ball! Let us know any feedback to our sneak peeks on Discord or Twitter!
Community Spotlight
As Phase 3 kicked off last week, Footium Club social media admins have been very busy creating amazing content to cover their club endeavours in the beta. The whole Footium team has loved seeing all of the posts every day and we wanted to highlight just how amazing and creative the Footium community is. Make sure to give the article a read if you haven’t already!
Footium Teletext launching Footium Five
Footium Teletext, created by community member Xekim has been a revelation during the beta, being an amazing way for the community to stay following what is going on within Phase 3, with featured matches being covered and headline stories being released.
The latest inititave from Footium Teletext is ‘Footium Fives’ which will start this Sunday! This weekly competition will be Footiums take on the real-world Super 6 where users try and guess correct scores to win prizes.
We can’t thank our amazing community enough for building out the Footium world alongside us and we will be looking to directly contribute to the Footium Five prize pool as it moves forward! Make sure to enter this week to win a special Footium Teletext mug kindly donated by Sea Park FC owner, Leroy.
Public Trello Board
Following some community feedback, we have created a Public Trello board which shows known bugs/feature requests, which of those we are working on, and which of those are complete and ready to be merged into the next update!
We will continue adding known bugs and near-term features to the list, however general 'ideas' which we aren't sure if we will be implementing yet and longer-term features will not be put onto here. You can see the board here!
Footium Club Giveaway
To celebrate Phase 3 of the beta being underway, we are giving away a Division 8 Club from the Footium Treasury. You can see how to enter below:
Next Week
Footium Quiz
The Footium Quiz will return next week on Wednesday evening following the end of the beta games.
Town Hall w/ Fancurve
There will be a mini town hall in the Footium Discord on Thursday at 6:30pm UK time with some of the team and Jonathan from Fancurve
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and thanks for reading the Footium newsletter, if there is anything more you would want to add to this weekly update, please let us know in the comments!