— Womplay —
play games and earn crypto

Building a gaming platform with crypto and NFT rewards

OVERVIEW

CHALLENGE

APPROACH

CONCLUSION

With the success of Wombat and the shift towards gaming we started to build Womplay. The idea was to give gamers a platform to discover games and to earn and win crypto rewards for playing them. For gaming studios the platform provides high visibility for their games and connects them with an interested audience. Later on we added competitive and social aspects with missions, NFTs and profiles. By providing Wombat as the wallet for all the assets we also grew its user base significantly.

Scope and constraints

The project started in June 2020 as an ongoing project with no specific timeline or fix deadlines.

Platforms

Responsive web with dedicated desktop and mobile versions.

Tools

Sketch

Figma

Zeplin

Notion

Jira
Slack

The team

The team changed overtime and included up to 12 people:

Project Manager
Marketing & Support
Several Developers for Backend and Frontend
Designer

My role

Most of the time I was the only designer in the team and got support later on by a freelance designer for some specific features. I covered the following aspects:

UX and UI design for the first version and for the profile page later on
Styleguide
Component Library
Enhancement with new features
Handover to the development

The user

With Womplay we wanted to attract casual and advanced gamers who want to benefit from our crypto rewards.

OVERVIEW

CHALLENGE

APPROACH

CONCLUSION

How do we attract gamers and grow their engagement?

Building a platform to discover games and get crypto rewards.

What would an MVP look like?

To validate our product and to see if the concept of the platform will be thriving we had to figure out what to start with in order to find acceptance and being used by our customers. Besides the onboarding or MVP included an overview and details of games and challenges to earn points and a prize pool widget to cash out those points in EOS.

What to add and improve for more engagement?

After a successful launch of the MVP and promising outcome in the beginning we enhanced the overall appearance and prioritized new features to improve the experience. One major feature I worked on was the profile page for each user. This also introduced new features like NFTs, editions and missions and was designed to be a themeable hub for the user. Another smaller but important feature we improved over time was the prize pool widget on the homepage.

OVERVIEW

CHALLENGE

APPROACH

CONCLUSION

Designing the MVP

The landing page was designed to show the most important features and content to give the opportunity to act on it right away

starting with the prize pool widget on top followed by two card carousels with top earning games and current challenges.

The visitor would be able to see details about the games and the challenges in a modal.

Any other action would require an account and therefore start the registration process.

Profile page as a hub for the user

With the profile page we wanted to create a dashboard for the user to display relevant information, collected NFTs, editions, challenges, missions and tailored actions to engage with the platform and other users.

I drafted several approaches to find out in close collaboration with my project manager what looks best and how to show all the content in a tidy way. Serving as a dashboard I designed with a modular layout in mind for simple extension with new elements.

As the profile was also meant to be accessible for other users I designed the page in the next step to be theamable with specific NFTs for the Avatar, the Header section, the background and sets including all three of them.