VITALE by Pokekara Studio
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VITALE: Football Career

Live the career. Not just the matches.

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.

Explore the experience How it’s built
  • In active development
  • App Store planned
  • Google Play planned

One career.
An entire football life.

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.

  • Every season leaves history.
  • The world keeps moving, with or without you.
  • Your decisions carry across years, not just sessions.

The career journey

Seven worlds. One footballer.

  1. 01

    Match

    Ninety minutes that can change everything. Performance feeds form, selection and reputation.

    Match rating8.4

  2. 02

    Training

    What you work on decides who you become. Push too hard and your body pushes back.

    Finishing71 → 73

  3. 03

    Contract

    Stay and fight for your place, or move for minutes. Every signature redraws the map.

    New offerReview

  4. 04

    Media

    Headlines, fans and rivals. What you say off the pitch follows you onto it.

    ReputationRising

  5. 05

    Money

    Your salary becomes real wealth: a lifestyle, investments, choices. It never buys you a better rating.

    Balance€412,800

  6. 06

    National Team

    The call-up you’ve waited years for, and the international tournaments that come with it.

    SquadCalled up

  7. 07

    Legacy

    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

A football life that fits in one hand.

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.

⌂Home
Your season at a glance: the next fixture, your condition and the signals from the world around you.
▲Training
Plan your week, choose what to develop and manage your workload against the risk of injury.
€Business
Salary, savings, sponsorships, lifestyle and investments. Money matters, off the pitch.
◎Media
Headlines, fan reactions and press conferences, where your answers shape your reputation.
★Career
Your profile, stats, milestones, contract and transfer status: the record of who you are becoming.
◍World
Leagues, cups, international football and the transfer market, all moving with or without you.

Built differently.

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.

  1. 01

    Simulation depth

    Matches, development, fatigue, form and the market, simulated rather than scripted.

  2. 02

    Persistent world state

    Clubs, competitions and footballers evolve season after season.

  3. 03

    Meaningful mobile UX

    Decisions that are fast to make and matter for years.

  4. 04

    Quality characters

    Footballers who look and feel like people, not placeholders.

  5. 05

    High-impact 3D career moments

    3D reserved for the moments a career is remembered by.

Technology & production

Simulation drives it. Unity shows it. Blender gives it a face.

VITALE is built as a simulation platform with a real 3D production pipeline behind it, not as a collection of screens.

  1. 01 · Simulation systems

    Decides what happens

    Headless systems run the football world: who plays, how matches unfold, how players develop and age, and where careers lead.

    • MatchEngine
    • WorldEngine
    • Career systems
    • Competitions
    • Transfers
    • Data pipeline

  2. 02 · Unity mobile client

    Shows it on your phone

    The portrait mobile app that turns simulation state into screens, decisions and selected 3D scenes.

    • Portrait UI
    • Career screens
    • Presentation
    • 3D scenes

  3. 03 · Blender production

    Gives it a face

    Characters and high-impact career moments are created in Blender and prepared as mobile-ready assets for the Unity client.

    • Characters
    • Event scenes
    • Mobile-ready assets

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

Designing and building VITALE with Claude.

Claude Code is the principal design and engineering environment behind VITALE: from career gameplay rules and architecture to C# implementation, simulation tests, review and creative production. Developer Anatolii Ushakov sets the direction and decides what passes acceptance. VITALE and its visual presentation remain in development.

AI-assisted engineering. Human-controlled product.

Read the full Claude development case study
  1. 01Game designCareer systems and meaningful choices
  2. 02Architecture & codeC# engines and persistent world state
  3. 03VerificationRepeatable simulations and save safety
  4. 04ReviewIndependent passes challenge assumptions
  5. 05Human acceptanceFinal decisions stay with people

For players

Why you’ll care

  1. 17

    A scout saw something in you. You sign your first professional contract and your name appears in the squad list for the first time.

  2. 21

    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.

  3. 24

    A bad month, and the press turns on you. How you answer them matters as much as your next goal.

  4. 27

    Your country calls. Wages have become wealth: a home, investments, a life beyond the training ground.

  5. 34

    One last season. Every year before this one is history, and it was yours.

  • A deeper fantasyThe whole career, not just the next fixture.
  • Choices that lastDecisions carry across years, not just sessions.
  • A living worldFootball changes around you rather than waiting for you.
  • ReplayableDifferent clubs, chances and worlds write different careers.
  • Money that mattersLifestyle and wealth are real, but never a stat boost.
  • Mobile-firstBuilt for portrait and one thumb from day one.

For investors & partners

Why VITALE can become more than a single game

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.

Thesis Why it matters What exists today
01

Deep retention potential

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.

02

Expandable content platform

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.

03

AI-assisted engineering leverage

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.

04

Mobile-first commercial strategy

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

From core simulation to commercial mobile release

  1. Now

    Core Simulation

    Major simulation foundations operational and continuing to harden.

  2. Now

    Mobile UX

    Portrait-first career interface and player-facing loops under development.

  3. Next

    Content Expansion

    More competitions, career content, world systems and presentation.

  4. Then

    Launch Preparation

    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

About Pokekara Studio

Pokekara Studio is an independent game development initiative based in Ukraine, led by developer Anatolii Ushakov.

Our first title, VITALE: Football Career, brings together deterministic football simulation, player development, club decisions and a persistent world designed for a mobile career RPG.

We are founder-led and bootstrapped, in active pre-release development. The studio is not currently a separately incorporated company. We do not claim investment, sales or an established user base.

Claude Code plays a central role in our game-system design, software architecture, C# implementation, testing, review and creative production workflows. Anatolii directs the project and approves the results.

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The next football career should feel like a life, not a menu.

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