The Matchday Post · 2h
Marin’s late winner silences Valcrest
VITALE: Football Career
A mobile football career simulator and narrative RPG. Grow from prospect to legend in a persistent football world, where transfers, media, money and the national team shape a career that lasts for years, not just a single session.
League · Matchday 23
Northbridge — Valcrest
Season objectives
Around you
Development focus
Weekly load · High
Push past the line and injury risk climbs.
“Stay sharp this week and the shirt is yours on Saturday.”
Balance
€412,800
Wage €18,500 / week · 2 seasons left
Money buys a life. It never buys a rating.
The Matchday Post · 2h
Marin’s late winner silences Valcrest
Press conference
The Valcrest coach called you “a one-season wonder.” Your answer?
Transfer status
Interest from 3 clubs · contract ends in 2 seasons
Milestones
Career path
Academy → Rivermouth (loan) → Northbridge
| # | Club | P | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valcrest | 22 | 49 |
| 2 | Northbridge | 22 | 47 |
| 3 | Ardent City | 22 | 44 |
| 4 | Rivermouth | 22 | 40 |
| 5 | Hollow Park | 22 | 37 |
Around the world
VITALE isn’t about the next match. It’s about the whole arc of a footballer’s life, from the first professional contract to the last walk off the pitch.
You train and you play, but you also negotiate, move clubs, face the press, earn and spend, represent your country and decide what kind of footballer, and person, you become. The football world keeps evolving around you the whole time.
An example career might run from a first contract at 17 to a farewell at 35.
The career journey
Ninety minutes that can change everything. Performance feeds form, selection and reputation.
Match rating8.4
What you work on decides who you become. Push too hard and your body pushes back.
Finishing71 → 73
Stay and fight for your place, or move for minutes. Every signature redraws the map.
New offerReview
Headlines, fans and rivals. What you say off the pitch follows you onto it.
ReputationRising
Your salary becomes real wealth: a lifestyle, investments, choices. It never buys you a better rating.
Balance€412,800
The call-up you’ve waited years for, and the international tournaments that come with it.
SquadCalled up
Trophies, records, loyalties. When it ends, what will they say about you?
CareerYour story
Build a career. Build a reputation. Build a life.
The mobile experience
VITALE is designed for portrait play and one thumb from the very first screen. It isn’t a console game squeezed onto a phone. Six sections hold the whole career.
Simulation first. 3D where it matters.
What we don’t build
A giant, empty open-world 3D city to wander through.
It costs a fortune and adds little to a footballer’s story. We made a deliberate choice to spend those resources where players actually feel them.
Matches, development, fatigue, form and the market, simulated rather than scripted.
Clubs, competitions and footballers evolve season after season.
Decisions that are fast to make and matter for years.
Footballers who look and feel like people, not placeholders.
3D reserved for the moments a career is remembered by.
Technology & production
VITALE is built as a simulation platform with a real 3D production pipeline behind it, not as a collection of screens.
01 · Simulation systems
Headless systems run the football world: who plays, how matches unfold, how players develop and age, and where careers lead.
02 · Unity mobile client
The portrait mobile app that turns simulation state into screens, decisions and selected 3D scenes.
03 · Blender production
Characters and high-impact career moments are created in Blender and prepared as mobile-ready assets for the Unity client.
Underneath it all: automated QA, regression testing and deterministic simulation checks. Run the same match with the same inputs and you get the same result, which is what makes a deep simulation testable and balanceable over time.
Built with Claude
VITALE’s systems are deeply connected: development affects selection, selection affects minutes, minutes affect form, and form affects transfers. Claude helps us reason across those connections and build, test and review changes, while every product decision stays with people.
AI-assisted engineering. Human-controlled product.
Read the full Claude development case studyFor players
A scout saw something in you. You sign your first professional contract and your name appears in the squad list for the first time.
A bigger club calls. Your coach wants you to stay. Do you go? Whatever you choose, the world carries on without the other version of you.
A bad month, and the press turns on you. How you answer them matters as much as your next goal.
Your country calls. Wages have become wealth: a home, investments, a life beyond the training ground.
One last season. Every year before this one is history, and it was yours.
For investors & partners
Football is one of the world’s largest entertainment categories. VITALE enters it from an angle the big match-control franchises don’t own: a deep career simulation, designed for mobile.
A career unfolds over many in-game seasons in a persistent world. That gives players structural reasons to come back: the next contract, the next tournament, the next chapter.
A persistent WorldEngine and player-lifecycle systems in active engineering. Retention is unproven before release and will be measured, not assumed.
New leagues, competitions, national teams, events, media and lifestyle systems, and career pathways can extend the game over time, and support future products on the same platform.
Data-driven simulation, with the engine separated from content and presentation.
A small team can build, test and review systems that would normally need a much larger engineering organisation, without giving up human product control.
Claude embedded in architecture, implementation, testing and review, with every change accepted by a person. See how.
Built for the platforms where football fans already spend their time, with UX designed for phones rather than ported to them.
Portrait, one-thumb client in development. Commercial release planned for the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Transparency. VITALE is pre-release. We don’t publish downloads, revenue, retention or ratings until they exist and can be verified. For partnership and investment conversations, email anatolii@pokekara.online.
Active development
Major simulation foundations operational and continuing to harden.
Portrait-first career interface and player-facing loops under development.
More competitions, career content, world systems and presentation.
Balancing, optimization, store preparation, production hardening and release readiness.
VITALE: Football Career is planned for commercial release on the Apple App Store and Google Play. No release date has been announced.
The studio
Pokekara Studio is an independent game development startup building simulation-driven mobile experiences.
Our first title, VITALE: Football Career, brings together football simulation, career RPG systems and a persistent world in a mobile-first game.
We believe modern AI engineering tools can greatly expand what a small independent team can build, without replacing human product ownership.
General enquiries
hello@pokekara.onlineFounder · investors & partners
anatolii@pokekara.online