Playstudios is a game studio focused on creating mobile games, mostly social casino games, with the PLAYAWARDS program, which allows player to earn points and spend on real life rewards.
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MyVEGAS Slots is a social casino mobile game that offers a wide selection of slots games. Various in-game features e.g. events, daily mission and album, allow players to earn points which can then be redeemed as real-world rewards via the PLAYAWARDS program.
Designed and implemented a sales blocker displaying system that show sales blockers depending on configurable conditions e.g. priority, available duration and meta-parameters e.g. player spending pattern, level and chip balance
This added layer of configurability enabled the product team to target certain players with specific sales offers, and players are more likely to purchase offers suggested by this system
Designed and implemented scalable in-game inventory that allows items and currency awards player earned from events to be stored and consumed later.
It is designed with extendability in mind to allow future or more complex awards types to be supported passively by the inventory system
Implemented a "Free-mium" season pass system consisting of a free and premium tier that unlock awards with progression. Progression an be boosted via a purchase.
It is designed to be configurable in terms of number of nodes, award types and duration, allowing the product team to finetune the parameters according to the performance data
Implemented a centralized system for LiveOps events to display their event widget, allowing more widgets, and thus events to be run at the same time
Implemented an auto-focusing feature that scrolls to and highlights the corresponding widget when players make progress in the event
Designed and partially implemented a tournament system layer that consists of:
Created a scheduling prototype in Google Sheet using TypeScript/AppScript that allows product team to reschedule upcoming in-game events and pushing to internal source control to be published to production
Extending the prototype, created a drag-and-drop internal website with React.js/TypeScript that allows product team to configure the look of the in-game lobby/dialogues
The setup is then processed by a lightweight backend in .NET/C# to generate corresponding JSON configs, before pushing the updated configs to the internal source control (then to production)
Created a python script in Google Collab that generates a timeline visualizing the schedule of upcoming in-game events, allowing the product team to easily spot any potential problemetic conflicts or overlaps beforehand
Implemented additional functionalities e.g. Automation of JSON config clean-up and pushing to internal source control
Implemented the following popular LiveOps events in Lua and revamped events for launches of new slot games:
