Our Work
PLAY NIMBUS.
We partnered with Play Nimbus to design and develop a sports gaming platform that turns live football into an interactive social experience. Play Nimbus lets fans compete with friends, join creator-led communities and build their football knowledge through skill-based gameplay, on a scalable foundation capable of supporting millions of users.
A Fan-First Gaming Platform Built for Live Sport.
Working closely with the Play Nimbus team, we led a structured discovery process exploring gameplay mechanics, technical architecture, monetisation, user journeys, and long-term product strategy.
We approached the platform as a social game and not as a traditional fantasy football application. Every interaction was designed to encourage competition, reward engagement and strengthen community participation before, during and after every match.
Players can register quickly using Apple or Google Sign-In, then create or join Quick Games and Leagues with friends, communities or creator-led audiences. Team selections are validated automatically before kick-off, with line-up locking, substitution handling and a scoring engine that keeps results fair throughout every fixture.
To encourage continued engagement, the platform introduces a comprehensive progression system built around XP, competitive tiers, streak multipliers, and tactical Bonus Chips. These strategic boosts add an extra layer of decision-making while rewarding loyal players through premium subscriptions and long-term progression.
Community engagement runs through the Ambassador Challenges framework. Content creators, influencers and commercial partners can launch branded competitions, moderate communities and reward participants using dedicated administrative tools, creating an ecosystem that extends beyond individual matches.
From a technical perspective, the platform was architected using Flutter to support both iOS and Android from a single codebase, alongside Laravel 12 and Filament CMS to provide secure administration of users, competitions, rewards, and platform content.
Live football data is processed through a custom scoring engine capable of handling substitutions, extra time, penalty shootouts, and complex scoring rules with complete data integrity. Laravel Reverb delivers near real-time match updates through socket-based communication, while Redis caching, queue-driven processing, and AWS cloud infrastructure provide the resilience required to scale as the platform grows.
Supporting integrations include Firebase Cloud Messaging for event-driven notifications, Amazon Cognito for authentication, S3 and CloudFront for secure asset delivery, CloudWatch for monitoring, and SQS/SNS for asynchronous processing and analytics workflows. Infrastructure is fully automated using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, which supports deployment from launch through future expansion.
The result is a scalable sports gaming platform that combines live football, community participation, creator engagement, and modern mobile technology into a single fan-first experience designed to evolve alongside the future of sport.
A Fan-First Gaming Platform Built for Live Sport.
Working closely with the Play Nimbus team, we led a structured discovery process exploring gameplay mechanics, technical architecture, monetisation, user journeys, and long-term product strategy.
We approached the platform as a social game and not as a traditional fantasy football application. Every interaction was designed to encourage competition, reward engagement and strengthen community participation before, during and after every match.
Players can register quickly using Apple or Google Sign-In, then create or join Quick Games and Leagues with friends, communities or creator-led audiences. Team selections are validated automatically before kick-off, with line-up locking, substitution handling and a scoring engine that keeps results fair throughout every fixture.
To encourage continued engagement, the platform introduces a comprehensive progression system built around XP, competitive tiers, streak multipliers, and tactical Bonus Chips. These strategic boosts add an extra layer of decision-making while rewarding loyal players through premium subscriptions and long-term progression.
Community engagement runs through the Ambassador Challenges framework. Content creators, influencers and commercial partners can launch branded competitions, moderate communities and reward participants using dedicated administrative tools, creating an ecosystem that extends beyond individual matches.
From a technical perspective, the platform was architected using Flutter to support both iOS and Android from a single codebase, alongside Laravel 12 and Filament CMS to provide secure administration of users, competitions, rewards, and platform content.
Live football data is processed through a custom scoring engine capable of handling substitutions, extra time, penalty shootouts, and complex scoring rules with complete data integrity. Laravel Reverb delivers near real-time match updates through socket-based communication, while Redis caching, queue-driven processing, and AWS cloud infrastructure provide the resilience required to scale as the platform grows.
Supporting integrations include Firebase Cloud Messaging for event-driven notifications, Amazon Cognito for authentication, S3 and CloudFront for secure asset delivery, CloudWatch for monitoring, and SQS/SNS for asynchronous processing and analytics workflows. Infrastructure is fully automated using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, which supports deployment from launch through future expansion.
The result is a scalable sports gaming platform that combines live football, community participation, creator engagement, and modern mobile technology into a single fan-first experience designed to evolve alongside the future of sport.
WHAT WAS
Success for Play Nimbus.
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