Work · Game / Consumer product
FooQ
A game that kept evolving after launch.
What it is
FooQ is a football knowledge game: guess the player from clues, alone or in live rooms, with coins, hints, missions and leagues around it. It has been live since 2023 on the web and since 2025 on the App Store.
Why it needed to exist
The first FooQ proved the loop — guess a player from clues, spend or know — but one mode and one economy could not hold players for a season. The product needed variety, competition and something to own.
What Idealink did
Idealink Games built every version — the 2023 web quiz, the 2025 App Store release — and is rebuilding the game for its next generation while the current one stays live.
- Status
- Live
- Relationship
- Idealink venture
- Industry
- Football games
- Period
- 2023 — ongoing
- Platform
- Web · iOS
- Idealink role
- Concept, product, design, engineering, live operation
Thesis
Launching is the easy part. FooQ is the living-product story: a football quiz that grew into live rooms, leagues and an economy — and is being rebuilt from the ground up while the current game stays live.
01
Product evolution
2023The quiz
A web game: guess the player from age, club, position and country clues; hints cost silver, gold buys prizes. The two-currency economy and monthly prize cycle were born here.
Earlier version · 2023 marketing render
2025App Store
A native iOS release added single-player cards, live rooms, leagues, an exchange between currencies and missions — the version on the App Store today.
App Store release · current listing
2026Next generation
A clean rewrite of the game is in pre-release: a new API, a new web client and a thin native shell, built to carry more modes and a competitive season structure. Details when it ships.
02
The loop that survived every version
01 → 02
Clue
Age, club, position, country, kit — each round reveals a little more.
02 → 03
Spend or know
A hint costs silver; a wrong guess costs a clue. The tension is the game.
03 → 04
Compete
Rooms race the same question live; leagues settle the month.
04 → 01
Earn
Missions and referrals feed coins back in; gold buys prizes and characters.
03
Engineering across generations
A NestJS API with a GraphQL schema shared by web, iOS and admin — one contract, generated client code everywhere.
Every coin movement is a ledger entry, not a mutated balance; scoring is server-authoritative so a client can never award itself points.
The native shell holds tokens in the Keychain, opens a one-time session into the web client, and verifies ad rewards and purchases on the server.
Outcome
Where it stands
FooQ has stayed live since 2023 — web quiz, App Store release, and now a rewrite in pre-release — with the same team operating it, which is the point: the product kept evolving after launch.
Stack and capabilities
Only what mattered
- NestJS
- GraphQL
- Prisma
- React
- Swift
- Docker