Friday Development Update: Part 63

4 min readNov 18, 2022

Another week has come to an end with the DeRace team accomplishing a number of milestones throughout it.

Our developers have improved the Missions’ feature to ensure smoother player experience, upgraded the UI/UX design for DeRace mobile, continued working on API 1.0 & finalized modelling the terrain for our upcoming wintery hippodrome.

Let’s dive into this week’s achievements!🤿

Missions feature improvements

Community asked, and we delivered!

We have taken into account the DeRace community feedback to improve the Missions’ feature for easier task tracking and our developers have completed it during this week.

DeRace Missions feature: players get rewarded with Sugar Cubes for accomplishing daily/weekly/monthly missions

Players can now complete their missions more efficiently as we have added an additional mission tracker which specifies which exact furlongs have been run. Just hover the cursor over the specific mission, such as “Run all tracks available on all surfaces”, and all the completed tracks will show up.

Mission reset timer improved: reset for all missions starts at 1am utc and takes up to 20 minutes to be completed

We have also synchronized the Missions’ timer, which resets at 1am UTC: players can now see the accurate time left until the mission reset.

So don’t forget to check your horse’s missions before joining the races to collect as much Sugar Cubes as possible! Sugar addiction in DeRace metaverse is real 😋

DeRace API 1.0

Great news to all the DeRace community builders — API 1.0 is coming on 29th of November!

This week our development team has focused on continuing API 1.0 coding, its UI for easy access and public documentation for the builders and DeRace community.

DeRace API 1.0 is dedicated to community builders to enable creation of various tools within the DeRace metaverse, which includes racing, NFT horse analysis tools and so much more! New community tools are going to increase the player involvement and steadily grow our community and ecosystem.

If you are a builder, apply for API 1.0 access here 👇 https://forms.gle/zyi1NopYCtiddSLN9

5th hippodrome update

Our newest hippodrome is coming to life step-by-step: snowy fields, northern lights and so much more!

This week our game designers have finalized the underlying terrain design for the upcoming hippodrome and have modeled some of other hippodrome elements such as colorful houses.

Next week we are planning to finish modeling the hippodrome grandstand and other smaller hippodrome details. Afterwards we begin placing all the 3D elements within the hippodrome, create the skylights and the horizon view.

And soon after it’s done we will have the complete functioning hippodrome to race in. Cannot wait until it’s ready!🤩

DeRace mobile upgrades

Among other improvements, we have also updated the UX/UI design for the DeRace mobile users for smoother gamin experience🛠

The ‘Races’ page now looks much smoother than before, and players can move among the all available races with more ease. We have also made a distinction for the “full” races, where players cannot register anymore.

Racing on the mobile device has never been so fun and efficient!

About DeRace

DeRace is a play-to-earn NFT horse racing metaverse where you can participate in horse races, breed NFT horses with unique characteristics, equip them, host races in your own NFT hippodrome and earn rewards while doing it.

DeRace is electrifying the current NFT market by allowing players to fully interact with their DNA-enriched NFT horses and have full control of their own hippodromes.