Weekly Product Update

Key details

• Merged pull requests: 12
• Core repos shipped: 2
• Priority areas: 5

Top Highlights

Players can now gift paid game passes directly to another wallet, with richer gift cards in direct messages.

Creators get a faster local preview path while publishing browser games, plus clearer processing states after upload.

NFT mint and auction surfaces became easier to read, with USD pricing context and a cancel path for ended no-bid auctions.

Game discovery, staging, and dependency health were tightened up so public experiences can ship with fewer quiet failure modes.

Game Pass Gifting Is Live

Paid games are easier to share with another player now.

• Game pages now include a Gift Game Pass flow for paid releases, with recipient wallet validation and an optional personal message.
• Players can gift by minting a new pass to someone else or by transferring an owned pass when that is available.
• Gifted passes now appear as richer direct-message cards, making it clearer what was sent and where to open it.
• The backend now stores structured gift metadata in DMs, so sender and recipient views stay consistent.

Publishing Previews Feel Faster

Creators should get better feedback while testing a new browser game upload.

• The create-game flow can now preview uploaded browser builds locally in the browser before the backend extraction path finishes.
• Publish success screens now keep checking pending builds so preview and play actions can unlock as soon as processing completes.
• Processing messages were clarified so creators see a more accurate status instead of a generic missing-game state.
• A dependency pin keeps the new local preview tooling aligned with the platform's package safety checks.

Marketplace Pages Are Clearer

Collectors and creators should have more context before acting.

• NFT mint pages now show HERESY-to-USD pricing context across mint prices, totals, balances, phase cards, offers, activity rows, and listing cards.
• Mint page alignment was cleaned up so collection details and purchase controls sit more predictably on desktop and mobile.
• Creators can now cancel ended silent auctions that received no bids, while auctions with bids, winners, or settlement activity remain protected.
• Auction pages now show the right creator-facing cancel action for ended no-bid auctions instead of leaving them stuck.

Discovery Is Fairer

Game rankings should better reflect real current activity and useful review signals.

• Popular game rankings now treat in-window engagement as the first signal, so games without recent activity do not outrank games people are actually playing.
• All-time plays, favorites, and ratings are now reserved as tiebreakers when period activity is comparable.
• Highest-rated game sorting now uses review count as a tiebreaker when games have the same average rating.
• Together, these changes make discovery lists feel less surprising and more useful for players browsing what to try next.

Release Operations Got Safer

Some of this week's work makes future launches easier to test and support.

• Preview and staging environments gained a password gate and server-to-server bypass path, helping the team test safely before public release.
• A new Sprite Lab prototype and backend generator API landed behind the staging workflow for future asset-generation experiments.
• Backend dependencies were refreshed to clear audit issues and rebuild the checked-in admin wallet bundle against the cleaned dependency graph.
• These changes are mostly behind the scenes, but they support smoother releases and a healthier platform foundation.

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Source record

The Grotto’s official update was published May 24, 2026.