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31st Aug
August 2023 Community Update

Hey COs!

Hope you all had an epic summer? Our batteries are fully recharged after some much-needed R&R time for the team, and we’re fired up and ready to tackle a busy few months ahead. 💪

Let’s catch up on the latest happenings…

New world-class signings

We’ve secured some huge talent acquisitions in the transfer window:

Ho-Yee Li has joined us as Senior Producer, bringing a wealth of experience from Interior Night and Epic Games studio Mediatonic, where she worked on the BAFTA-nominated Fall Guys.

Ross Hammond, our new Senior Graphic Designer has worked his design magic with big names like Chelsea FC, Team Sky, The FA, and recently with Channel 4 during its recent identity and platform redesign. Despite his work with Chelsea, he’s actually an Arsenal season ticket holder.

Another Arsenal supporter (we’ll allow it), Dillon Powlett, joins us as IT Consultant with a decade’s experience from a range of companies including Improbable and PlayStation London Studio. Fun fact: Dillon was also a semi-professional Wrestler and featured on the WWE Network!

The squad is shaping up nicely and we may have a few more game-changing signings up our sleeves! 👀 In the meantime, please give a warm welcome to our new recruits! 👏

Game development

We’ve always talked about building strong foundations and it’s proved worthwhile with the internal build running smoothly from the off (standing ovation to our tech team). 🙌

With that under our belt, we’re now looking to build out our feature set to test internally. The Premier League kicked off in August and we switched our build over from the MLS and gave the home screen a bit of a refresh. Unsurprisingly, our Community Lead, Mel won the internal MLS league and is currently unbeaten in our internal EPL league too. It’s a marathon not a sprint though and we’re hopeful she gets complacent!

We’re looking forward to getting some of our Founding COs in for a test drive this season. 👍

Let’s Settle It!

Football is all about opinions, right? In our recent content series, we had podcasters, Liban and Faysal weigh in on some of the most fiercely contested debates in Football.

Best manager? Best stadium? Best kit? 🤔

Head over to our TikTok and Instagram channels to find out who came out on top and don’t forget to give us your takes too!

Meet the team — Joe

In this month’s instalment, it’s time to get to know our Content Manager, Joe Lightfoot, who some of you may recognise from our TikTok. Learn about his role, why he’s hyped for the game, and why Frank Lampard was responsible for the best match he’s ever witnessed! 👀

Read the interview

CLUB COs know ball

The CLUB FPL League is live and shows just how good the ball knowledge is in our community. Our early FPL league leaders, ‘Eze Does It’ and ‘Tanghata Athletic’, are crushing it inside the top 30k globally — out of 9.5 MILLION teams! And our CO at the top of our predictions league is in the top 1% in the world right now too. 🔥

We know you know your stuff, but what about the Formation Games team? We’re proud to announce that we are one of the headline sponsors of the Games Industry FPL League this year, which means we can see how our knowledge stacks up against the rest of the industry, and raise a bit of money for charity along the way. 😊

Until next time,
Formation Games Team
31st Aug
Meet the team: Joe Lightfoot

This is our regular series that pulls back the curtain on some of the members of the Formation Games team.

This month, it’s our Content Manager, Joe Lightfoot.

Can you start by telling us when you joined Formation Games and what you were doing before?

It’s pretty much exactly three years to the day when I joined the team — the first week of September 2020. I joined straight from university after graduating during COVID, after having a bit of time to enjoy my summer first.

I studied football journalism at Derby University, which was the only course of its kind in the country. Graduating just when football had stopped due to COVID was difficult and the job market was tough. Then one day I was scrolling through Twitter and I saw a job advert that said ‘are you interested in social media, like football, and class yourself as a creative mind?’ And the rest is history!

Can you tell us a bit about your role as Content Manager?

My job has evolved in the time I’ve been here but, like it sounds, my role is to manage the content we produce particularly, but not exclusively, our social media.

Social media was the first thing I took on but my role now is much broader — managing our apprentice, partnerships, as well as influencer marketing and liaison, and other behind-the-scenes work. I used to say ‘I make TikToks for a living’ but it’s become a lot more than that and, although I did enjoy that, there are better people doing that for us now!

Let’s talk games! What’s the first football game you can remember playing?

The first I can remember would be FIFA 2004. It had the wonderful soundtrack of The Jam, Fools Gold etc and my brother and I would just sit for hours and play each other constantly on the GameCube in my mum’s bedroom.

I put hours into that but my favourite football game was probably FIFA 13 or Super Mario Strikers. I’m a big fan of the Nintendo games. Super Mario Strikers has absolutely nothing to do with realistic football but it’s such a great game. 😀

Do you have a favourite football team?

Unfortunately, I’m a long-suffering Derby County fan! I started going to County in the season after we got promoted in the playoffs at Wembley — also known as ‘the 11-point season’. It was a rude awakening for any football fan, watching with my dad as we got battered every week in the Premier League. We got one win in the whole season.

Since then, we’ve lost two Championship playoff finals, been relegated to League One, lost several playoff semi-finals and seen no promotions.

My second team is Hearts in Scotland, who I follow because of my Scottish granddad.

Your happiest football memory?

When we played Leeds, in the playoff semi-final, beating them at Elland Road to get through to the final (which of course we lost). The whole Bielsa ‘Spygate’ thing, their fans goading us before the match and then we blitzed them 4–2. Beating them that night was one of the best nights of my young life.

It’s weird saying Frank Lampard gave me my happiest football memory but it’s true and it was the greatest game of football I’ve ever watched.

What excites you most about CLUB?

I have this vision that one day I’m going to be sitting in a restaurant, walking down a train, or somewhere else and I’ll catch someone on their phone playing CLUB. I’ll see them enjoying something that I’ve been involved in from the start. Seeing people talk about their CLUB score with their friends in public is something I really look forward to in the future.

What excites me most about CLUB is I really feel that this will be the most enjoyable football game out there. That’s what we keep taking it back to — bringing the fun back into football games. I think a lot of other games have lost that spark along the way and what excites me is we’re bringing that spark back. 🔥

Last question… if you could have a superpower, what would you choose?

Oh I hate this question!

I’m a practical thinker so I’m going to go with what I think would be most useful: to be able to teleport. Close your eyes, snap your fingers and you can teleport to anywhere you want in the world.

It would obviously be important that anything I touch is also teleported so I don’t accidentally end up naked and so I can take my partner with me. We could head off to a beach in Hawaii on a Tuesday night and be back for work on Wednesday and no one would know…
31st Jul
July 2023 — Community Update

July 2023 — Community Update

Hey there, COs!

Summer is in full swing, and while some of us are catching some rays outside the office, fear not — the tech team is hard at work, locked in a dusty cupboard, making magic happen for the game.

Grab a cool drink and let’s dive into what’s been happening…

Game development

By now you’ve likely heard we’re gearing up for a season of testing (if not, get the lowdown here). Behind the scenes, we’re busy prepping builds, tweaking interfaces, and switching gears from our internal test MLS league back to the Premier League.

A huge thumbs up to everyone who signed up to help test the game — we appreciate you! Keep an eye out for more details coming your way very soon. 👍

For the rest of you who are eagerly awaiting your chance to get into the game, thanks in advance for your patience. All COs will get to download the new version of CLUB when the time is right.

We can’t wait to craft the game with you all over the next few months, leading up to our 2024 soft launch.

Meet the team — Neil

Time for a new segment in our updates — a chance to get to know our team a little better.

This month, to kick things off, Neil Dejyothin, our Executive Producer, is in the hot seat. He shares an insight into his role at FG, talks about his favourite games, football allegiances, and why he’s so fired up about CLUB.

Read the interview

Win an exclusive NIFC shirt

Remember when Newcastle Independent FC lifted a cup last year with the CLUB logo emblazoned proudly on their shirts? Ah, good times!😊

Well we’re delighted to be able to offer one of those iconic shirts to our community. So, if you want to add this collector’s item to your own wall, or even wear it the next time you step out onto the pitch? Enter the NIFC shirt giveaway in our Discord — hop in here to enter the raffle.

Wondering which club we’ll be sponsoring next? Well, we’re just waiting for the ink to dry on an agreement with a new team, so stay tuned for some exciting news soon. 👀

Do you FPL?

You asked and we listened — CLUB is running an official FPL League again this season! Last year was just a warm-up — and there are prizes up for grabs for the top three this season. 🔥

We like to do things differently around here, so this year, it’s a head-to-head format which means a bad week or two won’t ruin your chances entirely, but make sure to sign up before the first gameweek to secure your spot.

The league code you need is: i7e6mr or simply click this link to sign up and enter.

Also, don’t miss our Predictions League and various other games and competitions on our socials and in Discord throughout the season.

Quiz night returns!

Alright football geniuses, time to test your knowledge!

Our CO Phil is hosting a quiz night on Friday 5th August at 8pm in our Discord. This should be a fun opportunity to reawaken your football brain after the summer and see how you stack up against other people!

Join the quiz and thanks in advance to Phil, one of our long-standing COs for hosting.

Until next time,

Formation Games Team
31st Jul
Meet the team: Neil Dejyothin

The Formation Games Studio team has tripled in size over the last 12 months. This is the first in a series of pieces where we’ll get to know some of our growing team a little better.

First in the hot seat is our Executive Producer, Neil Dejyothin.

Can you start by telling us when you joined Formation Games and what you were doing before?

I joined back in September 2022, so I’m approaching 11 months at FG and it’s been such a blast! 😀

I’ve been working in games for more than two decades and spent the last 5 years before FG at Sony PlayStation, both in their global tech division that supports all of their studios around the world, as well as at one of their lovely studios, called Media Molecule.

I also spent more than 14 years working on the Football Manager franchise for SEGA’s Sports Interactive studio and had stints at EA on the FIFA Manager franchise, as well as several other football games at the start of my career. I actually broke into the games industry by creating my own online role-playing football management game in my teens, called Soccer All Stars.

Can you tell us a bit about your role as Executive Producer?

I’ve spent the first year focused on building a world-class studio, as well as setting up the foundations to ensure we create and deliver a best-in-class product in CLUB. I oversee and run the studio and product leadership teams at FG, but as in any start-up early in its lifecycle, you get involved in just about everything!

My main priority is creating a working environment that people love being a part of. We want it to be challenging but fun, where folks feel a sense of belonging, are proud to represent, and enjoy coming to work to perform at their best. I want to set the expectation that you must have a great time at work and believe those ingredients lead to making special products.

Let’s talk games! What’s the first football game you can remember playing?

That’s a real tough one! I played almost every football game I could get my hands on when I was a kid, and it would have been one of the many football games available on the Spectrum. When I was around 5 or 6 years old, I played a lot of World Soccer League and Kenny Dalglish’s Soccer Manager, and recall other titles like Football Director, Footballer of the Year, Manchester United — The Official Computer Game, Soccer Rivals (kinda like a board game) and more!

I grew up on all of these games, but Sensible World of Soccer (SWOS) and Championship Manager 97/98 and CM3, and International Superstar Soccer (ISS 64) were really stand-out games in their era at the time, and I loved and poured many hours into those too.

Do you have a favourite football team?

I’m born and bred in Shepherds Bush, London and a QPR fan as a result.

Your happiest football memory?

The first World Cup I can remember was Italia ’90 and I loved the vibe and remember sitting on the living room floor watching matches back-to-back with my Dad. I was so obsessed with football and was used to the regular season cadence of weekly matches, and remember my excitement at realising there were several live matches on in a row. Watching England through the tournament and the rise of Gazza was amazing too.

Stuart Pearce’s penalty against Spain in Euro ’96 was also memorable (scary, brave and such relief and elation after he belted it in!), as were our wins against Scotland and Holland.

I also was in Péle’s company briefly and that was like staring at football itself in the flesh!

But another happy memory would be my time coaching the QPR Women’s team, who went on to win the title and promotion to the Premier League in my 2 years there. That was pretty special. ❤️

What excites you most about CLUB?

Two things. First, it feels like we’re ready for the dawn of a new era and have been for a while, and I think CLUB will bring something fresh, fun and unique, and importantly something relevant to the table, which is really exciting.

And secondly, to do that, you need to have a strong vision and a great team to deliver on that vision. We have both of those. We’ve put together an incredible team here at Formation Games and fostered a terrific culture at the studio where we’re excited to see and work with each other every day, pushing boundaries as we seek to innovate and create something that truly inspires.

Last question, would you rather fight one horse-sized duck, or 100 duck-sized horses?

100 duck-sized horses! I’ll swiftly deal with one of ’em and know the rest won’t bother! 😂
30th Jun
June 2023 Community Update: Plans for the new season
Hello Founding COs!

It’s time to bring you up to speed with CLUB, our free-to-play mobile football ownership game that we know you’re excited to hear the latest about!

We shared a roadmap with you previously, but a lot has changed in the last few months! As our studio has grown, so have our ambitions for the game. Bigger ambitions mean more work on our side but a 10x better game.

In this post, we’ll delve into what this means and give you a glimpse of what the upcoming season has in store for you.

TL;DR:
- We have significantly raised our ambitions for CLUB — a genre-shattering football ownership game and we’re in a stronger position than ever before:
  - Developed our technology 📱
  - Grew our world-class team 🤝
  - Brought on board some talented advisors 🙌
  - Raised additional capital 🚀
- The 2023–24 season will be focused on testing key game mechanics, with Founding COs being added in waves. Please fill out this form if you want to be on the list for that.
- More information and sneak-peeks coming soon so stay tuned! 👀
Strong foundations

As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve been hard at work over the past year, laying the technical groundwork for CLUB and assembling a world-class team (see here and here). On the technical side, we’ve developed a new foundation for the game that is truly unique — it’s SO innovative and agile that we’re keeping the specifics of this a secret for now but it’s one of the reasons we’re so confident in CLUB’s success! 🤫

We’ve also attracted experienced advisors from the gaming world, most of whom have personally invested in the project, and whose valuable insights have further fortified our foundations and raised our ambitions even further.

On top of that, we’ve been busy raising additional capital. This has helped validate our thinking and opened up some very exciting new partnerships for us. All of this ‘behind-the-scenes’ work has been our key focus for the last few months and will ensure we deliver against our vision.

The 2023–24 season: Closed Testing

After our successful ‘Season Zero’ player engine test, which involved over 1,000 of you in 2022–23, we’ve always aimed to test our wider game mechanics in the next season. This is still the plan.

We’ve continued to refine the scoring system you experienced during Season Zero and we’re currently testing internally the technical implementation of the game with an upgraded performance stats package for faster, deeper content.

Receiving feedback from our community is important to us and crucial to any successful game franchise. We estimate that it will take most of next season for us to build in the key game mechanics bit by bit, testing at every stage. So that we — and you — get the most from this experience, we’ll be releasing the game in waves, so that we can see the impact of any changes from one group of COs to the next.

We hope you’ll be excited to test the game. If you would like to be part of the early-access testing group, please let us know via this link. 🎮

We also know that some of you may prefer to wait until you can have the finished version in your hands, which we completely understand.

Pushing Boundaries

Remember, CLUB isn’t just another football mobile game; we’re looking to change the genre. Our vision is to create the world’s most rewarding sports game: delivering an immersive experience that seamlessly combines elements of fantasy football; light football management; best-in-class social features and a companion experience like nothing you’ve ever seen before. We’re crafting a game that’s easy to pick up and play yet offers enough depth to keep you coming back for more.

From incorporating players from all the major leagues (including women’s teams), to implementing an innovative scoring engine, to a progression system that means you can join at any point in the year, we want CLUB to redefine the football gaming landscape. ⚽

Just like Pep at City, that level of innovation takes time to do right, which is why we won’t rush something out before it’s fully baked. We appreciate your patience, understanding and feedback. If you have any questions about the timeline for next season or questions about CLUB in general, feel free to hop into Discord to discuss directly with our team.

We’ll be arranging a virtual summit with our first group of testers, to get them fully up to speed with our vision and ambitions for CLUB, and we’ll post a summary of that in our Discord with a Q&A to pick up anything else you want to know.

In the meantime, stay tuned for more updates (and a few sneak-peeks 😉) and get ready to embark on the next stage of the CLUB journey!

Thank you for being part of this and for all your support so far. We appreciate it more than you know.

Until next time,

Formation Games Team
31st May
May 2023 Community Update

Hey COs! The football season might be drawing to a close but work in the Formation Games Studio is ramping up! Let’s dive straight into what we’ve been up to this month…

Our socials are on fire!

In May, we proudly announced a new partner and investor in Formation Games — Little Dot Studios, an award-winning digital content agency and media network. Little Dot collaborate with some of the world’s most recognised TV, sports and consumer brands, creating premium content for over 600 social channels globally. Altogether, Little Dot Studios is responsible for a whopping seven billion organic views per month 👀

To kick off our partnership, we sent Olivia Buzaglo down to Lewes FC, a community club with a seriously cool ownership model. If you’ve not seen the TikTok yet, check it out here.

This was the first part of our new ‘Meet the Clubs’ series — more of this coming soon. If you know a club with an interesting backstory that we should visit, please get in touch!

We also introduced some fresh faces to our TikTok channel and boy, did they make a splash! A couple of our videos went viral and, altogether, racked up an incredible 9 million views! Thanks to all our new contributors for helping to really put CLUB on the map this month.

Game development

We’re continuing to build the foundations of the game and this month we rallied around our internal working prototype to test the brand new game engine and hunt down any early bugs. We managed to squeeze in the end-of-the-season action during this test and let’s just say the leaderboard became a hotbed of fierce banter…

Your feedback will be crucial in making the game the best it can be, so stay tuned for more updates on when and how you can contribute.

Another new signing!

The Formation Games team keeps growing, and this month we added Poppy Bennett as our Multi-Media Marketing Apprentice. Poppy lives and breathes football, having been a football coach and player, with spells at Tottenham Hotspur and Stevenage.

NIFC lift the trophy 🏆

Newcastle Independent FC finished their season in style, defeating local rivals Newcastle Blue Star to claim the Northumberland FA Benevolent Bowl. The winning goal came in the 91st minute with Harvey Walsh firing home after a quick counterattack move.

Adam from Formation Games was there in person, cheering them on to victory! Well done NIFC.

It’s a wrap!

European football is pretty much wrapped up now, and what a thrilling season it’s been! While we’ve been hard at work building the game, you’ve been enjoying our various community side games. So here is a quick shoutout to some of our community champions this year:

· The CLUB FPL League champion: Chris Roche

· Winner of the CLUB FPL Cup: Peter Oluwaseun Ajayi

· Our Prediction League winner: GO22

And a big shoutout to those of you who managed to take home a Shot or Not prize this season — it sure hasn’t been easy!

Curious about the players who would have scored the highest in our game this year? We’ll soon reveal the rankings, but we’d love to hear your guesses for the top 5!

And of course, get ready for an even more thrilling season ahead… 😉

Until next time,
Formation Games Team
28th Apr
April 2023 Community Update

Happy April COs! Things are hotting up here at Formation Games HQ and we don’t mean the Spring weather. Get ready for another dose of Formation Games’ news and updates.

More world-class talent joins Formation Games!
We are delighted to announce that Adam Sullivan has joined the team as Lead UI/UX Designer. Adam has a wealth of experience in mobile games and was one of the founding members at Space Ape Games, the studio behind the award-winning game, Beatstar. He also worked at world renowned Playfish and Sony PlayStation.

We’re also very proud to welcome Claire Charalambos as Head of Finance. Claire spent over a decade at the FA alongside our Chairman, Alex where they oversaw the build of Wembley Stadium & St. George’s Park. A big welcome to both Claire & Adam!

Game development
With Adam on board, much of our focus this month has been on the game’s UI/UX. We have been — and continue to be — relentless on creating a game that is distinctive, both visually and in terms of the player experience. Watch this space! Momentum is building and we’re very excited to bring you, our community along the journey with us.

The Formation Games Forest
We believe in making our studio sustainable and minimising our impact on the planet.

Formation Games forest
Back in February, we asked for your help in deciding which sustainability project to support. The votes have all been counted and we are happy to announce that our forestry project will be…

…the Desa’a Forest in Ethiopia!

This is an ambitious, award-winning project that aims to restore and protect one of the oldest remaining dry Afromontane forests in Ethiopia. The project will help to support the 26,000 people who live below the poverty line, relying on the forest for water, energy and to feed their cattle.

Check out the GamesForest Club website to learn more about the project.

Thanks to all our COs who voted!

What’s it really like being a football club owner?
CLUB will allow fans to step into the shoes of a Football Club Owner, and to make sure we get it right, we’re meeting some of the UK’s most interesting clubs, including their Owners.

AFC Wimbledon Co-Founder, Ivor Heller and CLUB Presenter Mitch Tucker
Last weekend we took CLUB Presenter Mitch Tucker down to Plough Lane to spend the day with AFC Wimbledon. Whilst there, we spoke to some of the fans, members of The Dons Trust and to Ivor Heller, one of the original Co-Founders. They may have had a tough season, but they managed to secure their league status with a couple of games to go and the fans were in good voice, regardless of the result.

Keep an eye on socials for our Meet the Clubs series and a big thank you to everyone at AFC Wimbledon for making it happen.

Prizes are on the way
We’ve started shipping prizes to our competition winners this year.

CLUB Shot or Not
If you’re one of our elite Shot or Not winners get ready to receive our exclusive Shot or Not Champion’s ‘trophy’, with a tongue in cheek joke inside! Our monthly Discord quiz winners will also be receiving one of our new CLUB scarves. These are fresh off the production line and for the eagle-eyed COs, you may have spotted Mitch modelling one above. We’re excited for you to get your hands on them. Finally, a huge congrats to one of our COs, Mr Birds who won the Her Game Too sweatshirt last month.

More merch and more competitions to demonstrate your ball knowledge coming soon — so stay tuned!

That’s it for now, COs. Have a fantastic May and we’ll be in touch again in a few weeks.

Until next time,
Formation Games Team
31st Mar
March 2023 Community Update

Greetings COs! It’s time for your monthly dose of Formation Games’ news and updates.

Game development

We’ve been super busy again this month, working on the core building blocks of the game.

Our tech team has been working flat-out on the backend services to ensure that our game will run like a well-oiled machine, much like Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal (to the pain of the Formation Games Spurs contingent)! Don’t worry, we won’t bore you with all the technical details, but this work is critical in ensuring the game is lightning fast, reliable and works efficiently as a global live service. Yes, didn’t you hear? We’re going truly global with CLUB!

This is a significant step towards producing the next working version of the game.

Growing our studio

We’ve been expanding our team at Formation Games too to ensure that we have the right people in place to take CLUB to the next level, and we’ve been fortunate enough to bring on some seriously talented folks. We’ve even had to double our office space just to accommodate everyone!

Formation Games office(s)
We’re particularly proud of our recent hires in the design department, where we’re levelling up our design team, including a UI/UX specialist to make sure the game looks and feels great. We want our players to have a fantastic — but distinct — experience, and we know that starts with a well-designed interface.

And that’s not all — we have also enlisted the help of some truly world-class games veterans to advise us on realising our vision. This includes promotion and creative, through to commerce and tech. In other words, we’ve assembled our own Avengers team to ensure that CLUB is the ultimate Club Ownership entertainment experience.

(We even debated who would be the Captain America of the team, but we won’t bore you with this particular office debate!)

Speaking of joining our team, our Multi-Media Marketing Apprentice is closing soon. It’s a fantastic entry-level role for anyone looking to break into the games industry and/or marketing. Check out this link to find out more and apply: https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/1000145695

BAFTA Game Awards

We’re very proud that not one, but two team members of Formation Games were invited onto judging panels at this year’s BAFTA Game Awards. Our CEO, Jonty was judging Best Game and our EP, Neil was one of the judges for Debut Game of the Year. You can see the results here and despite offers of free cups of tea and countless Yorkshire Burritos (yes, these are real), neither Jonty or Neil disclosed who they voted for. Professional until the very end.

Congratulations to all this year’s winners!

Neil & Ryan from Formation Games looking dapper on the Red Carpet
Her Game Too

March was a month of celebration for our community partner Her Game Too. They marked International Women’s Day with new initiatives at clubs all around the country. These included pre-match celebrations and opportunities for female fans to attend games for the first time, supported by other women.

Southampton became the latest Premier League side to sign up to Her Game Too and, at Everton, Seamus Coleman and Gabby George have become the first Premier League and Barclays Women’s Super League players official advocates of the project.

We’re proud to have had Her Game Too as an in-game sponsor in Season Zero and will continue to feature them in the new version of the game. To celebrate this partnership, and International Women’s Day, we’re giving away a Her Game Too sweatshirt to someone in our community. To enter, head over to the Giveaways channel in our Discord.

Discord quizzes

Speaking of Discord, have you joined the CLUB yet? Our Discord community is a lively bunch of COs who love talking about football, playing games, and competing with each other.

We also host a monthly quiz that will really put your football knowledge to the test. And if you’re the champion of the month, you’ll be rewarded with some exclusive CLUB merch that will make your friends jealous.

So, if you think you know ball, join us for the next monthly quiz on April 22nd, and test your knowledge against some other football fanatics.

Newcastle Independent cup final

Last but not least, we would like to extend our congratulations to our shirt partners, Newcastle Independent FC, who have made it to the final of the Northumberland FA FSOA Benevolent Bowl.

We’ll be heading up to Newcastle on Friday, 28th April for a 7pm kick-off, to cheer them on to glory. If you’re in the area and want to join us, get in touch, and we’ll sort you out with a ticket!.

That’s it for now, COs. Have a great Easter and we’ll be in touch again soon.

Until next time,
Formation Games Team
28th Feb
Feb 23 Community Update

Welcome COs to our monthly update of all things going on at Formation Games. 🎮

Game development

Our team continues to be busy developing CLUB, our forthcoming Football Ownership Game. We’re currently focussed on perfecting our core gameplay loop or, in other words, making sure CLUB has the right blend of features to make it unputdownable!

While we’re working on this, we’d like to invite some COs into the office to meet the team. We’ll get to know you a bit better and understand what you currently like, or dislike, about other games you play. In exchange for picking your brains, we’ll pay for your travel and fill you up with pizza — seems a fair deal? 🍕

We will confirm a date shortly but if this is something you fancy, and you can make it into central London reasonably easily, please follow this link to express an interest: CLUB Open Office

Help us make a sustainable game

All of us at Formation Games are committed to creating a sustainable business and we believe we have a responsibility to minimise our impact on the planet.

We have signed up to Gamesforest to help us to meet this pledge. Through Gamesforest we will support a forestry project which will help offset our carbon emissions as a studio. We want our community to help decide the project that we support.

We’ve narrowed it down to three:

Tietê Forests, Brazil
The Tietê river in the Atlantic Biome is one of the most polluted rivers in Brazil. WeForest and AES Brasil are collaborating to restore the forest on the edges of the Tietê river and its tributaries with native species, protecting water bodies from soil siltation and runoff from herbicides and pesticides. The project is also providing a testing ground for pioneering restoration approaches that aim to reduce the use of herbicides.

Ethiopia Desa’a
The Desa’a Forest is one of the oldest remaining dry afromontane forests in Ethiopia. Over 26,000 people live below the poverty line here, relying on the forest for water, energy and to feed their cattle. This ambitious, award-winning project aims to restore and protect arid afromontane and bring water back to this region, which is directly threatened by desertification coming from the north, and lift the rural communities out of extreme poverty.

Protecting Peru’s Secret Forest
The Amazon rainforest is home to jungle giants that house sedate sloths, playful monkeys and secretive jaguars, and store large amounts of carbon which is essential for a healthy climate on our earth. Wilderness International buys these wilderness areas and protects them as undisturbed unique ecosystems, only visiting them for research and education projects. Local forest guardians protect them from mining, logging, agriculture and hunting and, in turn, they gain a sustainable income.

Please follow this link to vote for the one you think we should support.

Apprenticeship opportunity

We’re looking for a Multi-Media Marketing Apprentice to join our team. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to break into the games industry. A love of sports is a must (obviously!) and this role will involve some time in the office so the applicant would need to be in, or close to, the London area.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! All the details, including how to apply, can be found here.

Newcastle Independent FC flying high

As you may recall, the CLUB logo sits proudly across the shirts of grassroots club Newcastle Independent FC.

NIFC are in their seventh season and are living the club ownership dream. They’re currently challenging for the top spots in the Premier Division of the Northern Football Alliance League and have a massive cup semi-final coming up on 4th March for the FSOA Benevolent Bowl.

If they make it all the way to the final, we’ll be there to cheer them on and we’ll be inviting some COs to join us.

Shot or Not winners

Our new competition, Shot or Not, is proving tougher than we expected!

Every Friday, we give you six players and all you have to do is decide if each of them will have a shot on target during their match at the weekend. Simple right? Apparently not!

Only two winners so far, so congrats to community members Jackobusss and Arreaga_33 for beating the game! Your prizes are being made as we speak and will be on their way to you soon ;)

Keep an eye out for Shot or Not every weekend on Twitter and Discord, and maybe you’ll be one of our winners next time.

That’s it for now, with LOTS to look forward to! Have a great March COs. 🙌

Until next time,
Formation Games Team
31st Jan
Jan 23 Community Update
Welcome to our first CLUB Community Update of 2023! And a belated Happy New Year to you all! 🎉

After an incredibly successful 2022, we’ve now moved into a period of building, testing and refining CLUB ready for our soft launch later this year. The CLUB Community has supported us every step of the way so we wanted to give you a bit more of a sense of what’s happening here at Formation Games during this quieter period.

Game Foundations

Last year was a whirlwind, in the best possible way! Our MLS and Season Zero tests provided us with invaluable feedback about our ‘player engine’, which we’ll be taking forward and developing, along with more features and a beautifully redesigned game interface.

With Season Zero over, we should take a moment to celebrate the COs who finished top in our first iteration of CLUB. So a big congratulations to our overall top three:
1. Sparta Kendal FC
2. Mercia North End
3. Real Arsanel Halendonia
…and well done to all of you who finished in the upper reaches of the table. Good work!

Season Zero showed us the appetite you have for stepping into the shoes of a club owner, with picking your players and assembling your team at the very heart of that.

We know you’re all missing playing CLUB, but we’re building for the long term, so a bit of time spent making sure we deliver on our vision is imperative. It also gives us more time to take your feedback into account, which is important to us. We’ll share more information about the building blocks of the game in future updates.

A busy transfer window!

We’re delighted to share that we’ve had a hugely successful January transfer window and added even more world class talent to our growing studio.

John Collins, is our new Creative Director and will lead the game design. John is a veteran in this space and joins us from Space Ape Games, where he was pivotal in growing the global mobile hit title Beatstar — the App Store’s most featured game in 2022.

Martin Korda is one of the most sought-after scriptwriters, narrative designers and story consultants in the games industry. He joins as Narrative Director having previously contributed to numerous critically acclaimed blockbusters including FIFA’s The Journey series, Destiny 2 and Need for Speed Rivals, among many more.

Our in-house development team is now complete with Ryan Moore joining as Lead Systems Engineer. He spent over four years at Sony, building the global analytics platform for PlayStation before joining Media Molecule to run their DevOps and server programming.
You can read more about our new hires here.

Want to join our dream team? We’re currently looking for a Lead UI/UX Designer so take a look at this job posting if that’s your niche.

How’s your ball knowledge?

While our developers get on with the business of developing, we intend to fill the time with some games and competitions for you. The first game has just launched on our socials — Shot or Not?

Every Friday, we’ll give you a selection of players and all you have to do is decide if each of them will have a shot on target during their match at the weekend. Simple right?

If you get all the answers correct, you’ll be in the pot to win a mystery CLUB prize which you can proudly show off to your friends and family as an indicator of your superior ball knowledge. You can enter via our Twitter or Discord channel (yes, you get a bonus entry if you enter via both!)

FIFA Tournament

We were one of 16 football communities invited to take part in the OneFootball FIFA Cross-Community Tournament on 30 January. CLUB was represented by one of our very own COs Jolly, who was edged out in the first round after a really tight match. Big respect to Jolly for taking part and we look forward to providing more of our COs with exclusive opportunities in the future.

What next?

The team has a busy couple of months ahead so don’t be surprised if we go quiet for a little while while we get on and build. We’re likely to need your input on aspects of the game from time to time so look out for surveys and requests for feedback in our Discord (and maybe some sneak peeks too…?)

On behalf of the Formation Games team, we thank you all for your support on this journey so far and look forward to sharing more with you soon!

Until next time,
Formation Games Team

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