“New Awesome Titles Will Burn You Out with Excitement”!
Booongo software spills intriguing details about its upcoming releases, walks us though the backstage of how their popular games are being created, and shares thoughts on the future of e-gaming in an exclusive interview for KeytoCasino.
“We create awesome slots”, is what the official page of the Booongo studio says. Easier said than done? Not in this case. As a fairly new manufacturer of games, the brand already has a portfolio containing 20 highly popular releases, and is represented in a number of the best online operators, including Casino-X and SlotsMillion.
In a detailed and very emotional interview with our portal, the team talks about the challenging process behind the creation of each title, the response that they receive from the online gambling community, their motivation to introduce a new game-changing experience to the industry, and provide us with exciting details about slots they are working on right now. What can we say – it is impossible to remain unmoved, when talking to true fans of software developing. And we definitely cannot keep such information only to ourselves.
1. What made you enter the world of e-gaming? What, do you think, was lacking in this industry that you wanted to provide or improve by introducing Booongo?
The IGaming industry is constantly transforming and growing. Young companies bring healthy competition; introduce fresh ideas, force processes and approaches to improve. Booongo gathered a team of passionate slot enthusiasts, who keep challenging boundaries through exciting game features & innovative gameplay, stable operation & rich gaming atmosphere – what inevitably delights our customers and supports their business.
We strive to create fantastic cross-platform HD video slots for free-to-play and online gambling market and make high-end products with a new vision on e-gaming.
2. Which of your slot machines received the biggest response from the players, and which ones are your favorite thus far?
We constantly analyze our games’ performance with the help of internal Business Intelligence system, taking to account such metrics as retention rate, active users, engagement, player’s segmentation ratios etc. - all on top of general metrics like GGR, Rounds, Bets and their averages. In addition, we do our best to co-operate with our partners on promo activities directed to our brand, games, and players.
“…you are going to see even more best-performers in here due to growing popularity of recent slots like Hell’s Band and Diego Fortune, and because of upcoming releases of our next titles…. which are just fabulous - as from the graphics or gameplay/mechanics point of view.”
At this moment, as headliners we can name such titles like - God’s Temple, Poisoned Apple, Secret of Nefertiti, Gnomes’ Gems and African Spirit. But we believe this list is still expanding, so you are going to see even more best-performers in here due to growing popularity of recent slots like Hell’s Band and Diego Fortune, and because of upcoming releases of our next titles…. which are just fabulous - as from the graphics or gameplay/mechanics point of view.
It is difficult to highlight a single favorite game. We create each project with love and passion! From the nearest releases, we have Wild Galaxy - It will be a super-duper novelty that will thrill all fans of the Space Odyssey, Pixel Art and Dendy`s generation!
“We devoted a lot of time to the pure 90’s gaming atmosphere that will undoubtedly amuse thousands of players! So prepare your Killshot for a Boss and grab all the universal rewards!”
This game is just crazy, where Guardians of the Wild Galaxy are not asleep! If you dare to beat the boss and slay all the spaceships - you will get a treasure of a universal scale!
We invested a lot of energy not only into Pixel Art graphics but also devoted a lot of time to the pure 90’s gaming atmosphere that will undoubtedly amuse thousands of players!
So prepare your Killshot for a Boss and grab all the universal rewards!
3. How long does it usually take the studio to create a slot machine – from selecting a theme to testing the new game and saying: “Okay, we’re ready to introduce it to the community”? Is it an easy process? And how do you usually know the release will be a success?
In fact, we need an average of 4-5 months to create a new game. First of all, we collect a creative group and discuss mechanics options & ideas. Usually, we write out famous, popular or unusual mechanics and combine them into a new game with expectation about 3-5 features count. Sometimes someone from the team comes up with an interesting mechanics, tells about it to others, and we light up and do it.
When new game has mechanics, main gameplay and features, we think about its mathematical characteristics and setting, in which it can be placed. We choose mathematics for the game in two ways. First - we use the old and tested, we have a large system of analytics, through which we track a game`s popularity and features. The second one - is trying something completely new. With artwork - it’s easier: we choose a setting, in which we don't have a game yet. It can be holidays, for example, Halloween, Christmas or a popular theme of antiquity and myths.
For this preparatory stage, usually a month of work is spent up, but it is rightfully the main one, since after it`s completed, we can understand what game we are actually crafting. Then we have a period of artwork and front-client’s programming. Together we look at the result. Each member of our team can offer corrections or improvements during this game`s development stage. For these purposes, we have a review mechanism.
Before releasing any of our games, we play it by ourselves in order understand what product our players will receive. If we are not satisfied with the result, we can completely remake this game. But usually, thanks to a good understanding of the market, an experienced multifunctional team and with good planning, we get quality games without long processing.
4. How do you come up with the topics for slot machines and new feature ideas? How does the brainstorming process go?
Our team comes in constant search of sources of inspiration. We have a creative thinking and original approach to all games, but at the same time, we always consider the current interest and relevance of the themes. We are inspired both by the products of our colleagues in the iGaming industry, as well as by already the proven land based slot machines. We always refer to the primary sources of a theme formation or phenomenon in culture. This helps us understand why a particular topic has won people's interest. Just a view from different angles makes it possible for us not to think stereotypically.
5. What does an even better customer experience mean to you? What features and tools are you adding to your software to ensure that the clientele gets the best treatment?
Our mission is in discovering new & interesting game mechanics. Also, we invest great effort into gamification, as all of us face more and more millennials coming to the industry at the moment. Therefore, the main goal in our successful development is a searching for ways & tools capable to transfer gameplay experience and a game’s atmosphere to player.
Each game contains its own unique features that help to reveal the theme and the atmosphere of each title to the greatest extent. Maybe following may work as a good example:
Spectator Mode for LIVE one-on-one tournaments (Casino-x example),
In-Game Achievements with instant pays (Hell`s Band) or with extra free spins as a reward (God`s Temple, Gnomes’ Gems)
Freespin game triggered by achievements (Poisoned Apple)
Any Symbol Wilds and Scatters (Hell`s Band),
Paid respins (Halloween Witch) or Paid achievement’s timer (Hell’s Band)
Unique reelboards and mechanics (Thunder Zeus, God`s Temple),
Unique Bonus Games (Fruity Frost, Secret of Nefertiti, Hell`s Band, Diego Fortune)
Respins on accumulated mechanics (Diego Fortune)
Different gifted freespin types and feature triggers
“New awesome titles will burn you out with excitement, in which the main accent we pay to cumulative mechanics”.
6. Tell a bit more about upcoming releases and their features. The plan looks very ambitious and exciting. What should a player be prepared for?
We don`t stop on an achieved level for any moment in our game development and strive to be played by millions of players! New awesome titles will burn you out with excitement, in which the main accent we pay to cumulative mechanics. According to the success of our recent releases, we found out that players were delighted with such features. Booongo Gaming likes to create experiments with game mechanics, so players will be satisfied completely with new unusual combinations.
The closest upcoming release is a slot machine called Wild Galaxy and we are totally sure - there will be nobody indifferent to this game, it’s really just so clear to us! Stay tuned and get ready to fly a Spaceship from the coming release! And prepare your Killshot for a Boss to grab all universal rewards!
7. Seems like VR is quickly becoming the newest trend. What are your thoughts on the topic? Are you going to produce VR games?
We also consider VR as the newest trend, which is gaining more & more popularity each day. With this technology, iGaming operators are trying to reach the same level of feelings delivery and excitement, which players have playing at landbase casinos. In some aspects, VR excites players even better!
Booongo Gaming always follows new streams and the latest elaborations, so we also have some developments in this area. But there is a common problem in fact that many companies don't fully understand, how to make profit on VR. We are also in the process of discussion, so the prospect of a realized VR direction in Booongo remains uncertain.
