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Coding-free game generation system aims to slash costs & boost efficiency
Costs can be more than halved and efficiency better than trebled when it comes to developing games for regulated markets such as casinos and video lottery terminals (VLTs), according to Meta Games Universal Limited, (MetaGU). Providing you use its new Cargo system, the company claims that games can be generated without the need to understand - or touch - any software code.
According to its makers, using Cargo allows game designers without software skills to produce high-quality games - and not just for slot machines.
Once initial platform interface code and game definition models have been produced to set Cargo up to generate games for a particular system or platform, software developers are not involved during the game design and development process, which is undertaken by game designers using the Cargo graphical user interface. When the game authoring is complete, final game source code is automatically generated and compiled by the Cargo system, ready for use on the target platform.
Because the game executables are automatically generated, Cargo dispenses with the need for a software coding stage completely. It also brings significant benefits to the requirements capture, testing and approvals stages of development, not least because source code from existing, tested games can be reused when generating new games. Game source code is produced with precisely controlled differences which can be easily checked, meaning that testing and external approval costs are much reduced.
Cargo also allows manufacturers to open up game production to third party developers and studios safely, without exposing the Intellectual Property in their own software or systems.
"After playing a key role in the development of a Server Based Gaming (SBG) platform handling over 8,000 gaming terminals simultaneously, and then in the development of the first US Class III approved SBG platform, I saw that content generation was a bottleneck," explains Owen Cullum, CEO of MetaGU.
