Red Hot Rockets is live!

Another week and we’ve release yet another new slot on our F# slots engine onto Jack­potJoy Slots! This time around it’s in antic­i­pa­tion to the upcom­ing inde­pen­dence day!

Sorry, no aliens in this slot Sad smile but we do have some…

Red Hot Rockets

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Red Hot Rock­ets is a 25-line slot, themed around inde­pen­dence day, and as part of the cel­e­bra­tion we’re also run­ning a spe­cial community-driven pro­mo­tion. Every spin in Jack­potJoy Slots is counted towards each of 7 com­mu­nity tar­gets, when a tar­get is reached a new pro­mo­tion (dou­ble coins, dou­ble gifts, etc.) will be made avail­able to every player in the game!

After 18 hours or so, there are already over 134 mil­lion spins!

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Red Hot Rock­ets has two bonus game fea­tures, a pick bonus and a free spins fea­ture. The pick bonus is trig­gered when the player lands 3 or more Bonus sym­bols any­where on the reels and fire­works will follow!

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When the free spins mode is trig­gered the player is given three choices with vary­ing num­ber of free spins and mul­ti­plier value. The mul­ti­plier for the free spins mode is apply to any wins the player gets in the free spins fea­ture, includ­ing pick bonuses!

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Did I men­tion the sound effects in Red Hot Rock­ets is really cool? Don’t believe me? Well, do check it out for your­self then!

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June 30, 2012 | | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Slides and recording for my talk with F#unctional Londonders

Fol­low­ing my talk – .Net in Social Gam­ing — with F#unctional Lon­don­ers on Thurs­day, the record­ing of the ses­sion is now avail­able on the Skills­Mat­ter web­site here.

The slides for the talk is now avail­able on SlideShare:

Dot net in social gam­ing
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Fuzz Balls and Amazing Adventures are live!

Despite some hur­dles and sub­se­quent AWS out­age which also took out the likes of Pin­ter­est and Net­flix, I’m proud to announce that we have released two new slot this week – Fuzz Balls on Jack­potJoy Slots and Amaz­ing Adven­tures on Lucky Gem Casino, both run­ning on our F# slots engine Smile

Fuzz Balls

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Fuzz Balls is a cat-themed, 25-line slot with a two-staged bonus game.

The bonus game starts with a sim­ple pick bonus which deter­mines how many free spins the player will receive in the free spins spe­cial feature:

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Once inside the free spins fea­ture, a sym­bol will sit on top of each col­umn and tuna cans will ran­domly appear in thought bub­bles with each of the 5 sym­bols asso­ci­ated with the columns.

These tuna cans are col­lected and once the player has col­lected 3 tuna cans for one sym­bol, the cor­re­spond­ing col­umn will become ‘acti­vated’ and any WILD sym­bols that appear in this col­umn will be expanded to cover the whole column!

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Amaz­ing Adventures

Amaz­ing Adven­tures is an Egyptian-themed, 25-line slot with a pick bonus and a free spins bonus game.

The pick bonus game is trig­gered by a scat­ter win with three BONUS sym­bols any­where on the reels.

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In the pick bonus, the player first have to choose one of the three loca­tions and it’ll reveal the num­ber of picks the player will have. In the sub­se­quent screen the player can then pick the spec­i­fied num­ber of items out of 20 avail­able items to reveal ran­dom prize amounts.

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The free spins fea­ture is acti­vated by a scat­ter win with three FREE SPINS sym­bols any­where on the reels. When trig­gered, the player will receive between 5 and 10 free spins, dur­ing which they are able to win with the SCATTER sym­bol which is only avail­able dur­ing the free spins feature.

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Check them out and let us know what you think!

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June 17, 2012 | | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

F#unctional Londoners Jun 28th

Just a quick note to men­tion that I’ll be speak­ing to the F#unctional Lon­don­ers on Thurs­day, 28th Jun about using .Net in the social gam­ing space which is usu­ally dom­i­nated by PHP.

In this ses­sion I’ll share some insight into how we at GameSys uses a poly­glot stack evolv­ing around .Net to build our games and the dif­fer­ent kinds of scal­a­bil­ity and big data chal­lenges we have to face on a day-to-day basis.

Here’s a sneak peek of some of the slides I’ll be show­ing at the session:

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Wanna see more? Well I guess you’ll just have to come to the session Winking smile

Hope to see you there, do come and grab me to say hi!

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June 16, 2012 | | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments »

F# – Combining predicates

I came across this SO ques­tion the other day, and I really liked Daniel’s answer as it illus­trates the beauty and ele­gance of F# and func­tional pro­gram­ming in general!

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Per­son­ally I love the com­bi­na­tors approach, and for any­one else who’s inter­ested to see what else you can do with com­bi­na­tors, check out the beau­ti­fully crafted FPar­sec, a parser com­bi­na­tor library for F#.

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June 11, 2012 | | Tags: , , , | No Comments »
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