goals

MARS Interactive games is Israel's leading company for ITV Game Channels. Recently MarsGames has become a provider of game content for major portals such as nana10.co.il.  Mars asked us to help them redesign and program games so that they can be native to the online environment.

challenges

• Upgrading a limited ITV technology into a complete rich media experience
• Integrating web technologies with legacy ITV multiplayer technology
• Creating an infrastrcture for on-going development of on-line multiplayer games.

solution

We created two layers of infrastructure for the multiplayer environment: a .NET server proxy that communicates with the ITV platform and a Flash based, client side, lobby infrastructrure that deals with logging the user into the environment and maintaining the multiplayer communication.

On top of this infrastructure we developed a range on classic multiplayer games that already exists in the ITV environment like TAKI, Backgammon, Battleship, Texas Holdem. All re-designed to accomodate a rich gaming experience.

results

The responses in the on-line gamers comunity were great with more than 40,000 users playing in the web arenas a day! Battleship can be found here