This week’s redesign is about ParadisePoker’s lobby. ParadisePoker is Sportingbet‘s poker brand and their client is built by Boss Media (my former employer). I play on it every now and then and I really enjoy the clean and nice tables, it helps me to focus on my game. But I find the poker lobby to [...]
Read moreWhere do online sportbooks put their bet slip? Is there a position that is the best? It seems that most online sportsbooks put it at the upper right side. Is this because it’s the best place to put it or is it because all their competitor put it there as well? Image 1. Sky Bet’s [...]
Read moreThis is a great talk about future of game design and gamification by Jesse Schell at D.I.C.E 2010. I believe that gamification will be a very important part of the igaming industry the next coming years so it is time for igaming companies to start to look at the whole player experience and not just [...]
Read moreGamification, game dynamics and game mechanics are terms used more and more but what does it mean for gaming portals? “Gamification is the process of integrating game dynamics and game mechanics into a website, business service, online community, content portal, or marketing campaign in order to drive participation and engagement.” (Defintion by Bunchball) Game mechanics [...]
Read morePokerStars (as well as many other poker operators) announce information about upcoming tournaments in the table window. The information is shown for a couple of seconds. You see the information in the middle of the window. How would you go about to get more information and register? I would click in the information box. But [...]
Read moreApple released Game Center in their latest version of iOS (4) and it is available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It will be available on the iPad with the release of iOS 4.2 coming next month. With Game Center players can play games against other players, either friends or players they don’t know. The [...]
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