Tag Archive for: Games

Who will be the mobile operator of the year at EGR Operator Awards 2011?

EGR Operator Awards by EGR Magazine takes place later this month and the shortlist for the mobile operator category are the following:  Betfair mFortune mobile phone casino Paddy Power Rank Interactive (Blue Square) William Hill Online I’m especially interested in the mobile operator category for a number of reasons: Mobile gaming is the future way of [...]

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Promote unique brands for your different games!

Today most gaming portals offer bingo, casino, games, poker and a sportsbook. Is this the best way? Look at Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and PartyGaming who promote brands for one kind of game. For instance players go to PokerStars to play poker, but when you go to for instance bwin, Unibet, Ladbrokes and many more gaming portals [...]

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If you aren’t prototyping yet then it is time to start!

Do you develop gaming software? Do you prototype? If you do prototyping then great! If you don’t, then it is time to start doing it! A prototype is a representative model of the final product. Why should you build prototypes? Prototyping is an interative and generative process. You’ll never get the best solution at your [...]

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Add social features and get more players!

Image 1. Top 25 Facebook games in October. (by InsideSocialGames.com) Games played on Facebook have a large user base and I believe it is because of their social features. Letting players play inside Facebook and/or on their iPhone insted of having to go play on a portal is the key. For instance Zynga’s poker have [...]

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Please inform me that I can’t play insted of wasting my time!

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Image 1. bwin’s skill games site provided by Jadestone. Can it be more frustrating than getting an error message saying “Compability problem, you need to have Windows and Internet Explorer or Firefox to play”? (I am using a mac) Yes it actually can! And that is when I have logged in to the site, looked [...]

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Gaming & personalization

PaddyPower has a feature “my games” in their games section on their site. This is one of the first examples of personalization I’ve seen. I like the feature where you can save games you play often to a list, but it is not working very well when you move around the PaddyPower site. The option [...]

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