Maltese game development start-up Poang’s first foray into the app sector kicked off this month as its Football Fantasy app went live.
Poang Fantasy Football is a one-of-a-kind hybrid between traditional season-long round-based fantasy football and role-playing football manager games. Available on iOS, Android, Facebook and Web, Poang Fantasy Football offers an immersive gameplay experience never seen before in regular fantasy football games.
Poang Fantasy Football allows users to create fantasy teams and obtain points from the real-time performance of players in the top leagues in Europe: England, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal and the Netherlands, besides the Champions League and Europa League.
Using Poang Fantasy Football’s high score and rolling average system, users can sign up at any time during the season without affecting their chances of success. Users may challenge friends head to head and share their success on social media. Other features include the ability to upgrade facilities such as the scouting team (more transfers per round), medical team (more challenges per round) and stadium (more money per round according to real-life attendance of real-world stadiums) to increase users’ chances of creating the best team possible.
Users are in charge of both the team and the business. Users accumulate as many Poang coins and dollars as they can to become a top football manager.
Poang was co-founded in 2015 by Luca Amato, Patrick Camilleri and Steve Zammit Briffa. In 2016, Poang entered into a joint venture with Harvest, the technology division of Hili Ventures, giving the start-up the necessary funding to pursue game development in earnest.
All three directors left their full-time careers in law and technology to focus on Poang earlier this year. The Poang team is now based at Nineteen Twenty Three, Hili Ventures’ head office in Marsa.
“We are ecstatic to see Poang Fantasy Football go live and sign up its first users. Even the build-up to the release has been exciting,” Amato, Camilleri and Zammit Briffa said.
“We looked at fantasy football operators in the market and identified a gap, so we embarked on developing a fantasy football experience that was as immersive, personal and challenging as possible. Poang Fantasy Football is the result of thousands of hours of development and we hope users enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it.”