Balliq
Our own product. A competitive football quiz app for iOS and Android — game design, real-time multiplayer, backend and marketing site, all built in-house by Quube.
We don't just build for clients. We ship our own.
Balliq started as a question we wanted to answer for ourselves: how good is your football knowledge, really — and can you prove it against someone else? It became a full consumer product carrying the line 'Test your Football IQ, competitively.' Everything in it is ours: the game design, the question bank, the real-time multiplayer, the backend and leaderboards, the mobile apps for iOS and Android, and the marketing site. Nobody briefed us and nobody signed off the scope. That is precisely why it is the most honest thing in this portfolio — it is the standard we hold ourselves to when there is no client to please.
Four ways to play, one system underneath
A quiz app is deceptively simple until you add other people to it. Each mode put a different demand on the architecture:
- Single Player — a solo run where you set your own pace and build up over time
- Multiplayer 1v1 — head-to-head against another player on identical questions and identical timers, which means server-authoritative state rather than trusting the device
- Party Mode — two to eight players passing a single phone around, a completely different interaction model from the online modes
- Special Challenges — limited-time events including survival rounds, speed tests and guess-the-player
What building it taught us
Running your own product means living with every decision you make. We handle the real-time synchronisation that keeps two players on the same question at the same moment, the leaderboards and progress tracking that make returning worthwhile, the release process for two app stores, and the support when something breaks at the weekend. That experience goes straight back into client work: when we estimate a mobile app or a real-time feature, we are not guessing from a tutorial — we are quoting from something we already run in production.
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