SkillPod Casual Games Platform - Publisher Presentation
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2. About SkillPod Media
• SkillPod Media’s primary focus is the provision of world class online and
mobile casual games platforms and related services
• Focus on enabling global customers to provide sophisticated mobile and
online gaming environments to consumers
• Complete outsourced solution with mature technology, 7 years in the
making
• Little to no tech skills required by customers / reduced barrier and
technical costs for customers
• Provides customers with a turnkey casual games solution with direct &
immediate revenue generation
• Expert knowledge to leverage online media (16 years)
• Used by top publishers incl. RTL Group, Media 24, DSTV
• Clients in: SA, NL, BE, Lux, UK, USA, Turkey, UAE, Croatia
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4. Technology
• Able to offer publishers turnkey solutions:
– Online full featured gaming platform.
– Mobile full featured gaming platform.
– Social media integration – Facebook & Twitter.
– App stores – Apple, Android and Symbian.
– Comprehensive catalogue of game titles.
• Modular approach to content formatting & delivery.
• Platform and Games can be fully translated.
• Built on highly scalable, customisable technologies (LAMP)
• Multiple API’s available to 3rd party game developers.
• Skilled team of passionate individuals.
5. RDF - Online Platform
Features:
• Full game selection & control
Publishers:
• Select from custom themes
• Set featured content
• Create unique templates
• Facebook Connect & OpenID
• Logo and header backgrounds
• Friends management
• Shuffle Content
• Score logging + leaderboards
• Translate site content
• Challenge friends
• Quick deployment
• Tournaments platform
• Custom domain name
• Player profile pages:
• % of revenue
• Fav games
• Top scores
• Friends Users:
• Pod transactions • Select from pre-defined site templates
• Social media features • Create own custom template
• Game info pages • Select backgrounds from library
• Virtual Currency – Pods • Import own backgrounds
• Rate games & players • Set background properties
• Avatar creation tool • Shuffle certain content items
• Integrated chat
• Create custom games
6. Facebook Platform – Key Features
• Virtual Currency (Pods) Engine
• Avatar Builder
• Featured games and tournaments
• High score boards + Twitter posts
• Post Game Screens
• Game Challenges
• Tournaments and Prize Engine
• Most Popular Games, Top Players, Most Active
• Friends & Messaging
• Post scores to Users Wall
• Detailed Player Profile Pages
• Live Tournament Leaderboards
• Surveys for Advertisers
• Player Grading
• Game and Player Management
• Extensive Reporting
• Full translation of site elements
7. Mobile Platform – Key Features
• Player Access Control Features, time based free play, then subscribe
• Download Games
• Player registration engine, incl. Facebook Connect
• Featured games and tournaments
• High score boards & Tournament leader boards
• Game Ratings
• Game search engine
• How to play guides
• Refer a friend
• Integrated Chat
• Player support contact form
• Game challenge
• Tournaments engine
• Most popular games listings
• Search engine friendly content structure
• Community elements:
• Build friends lists, Messaging, Invite Facebook friends
• Challenge friends for Pods
• Detailed player profile pages - public and private
• Surveys for advertisers
• Payment provider integration – Zong, Integrat, PayPal + local providers
• Extensive Backoffice Tools:
• Player and game statistics
• Game and player management
• Tournament management
• Promotions management – banners and surveys
• Reporting including:
Showcase: www.gazuma.com • game activity, player activity, demographics, revenue, tournaments,
challenges, referrals, handsets, etc
8. Pivatar
• Select Gender
• Build custom avatar, multiple features
• Full customisation for skin tones
• Full colour customisation for each clothing object
• Full colour customisation of body features
• Free items, paid for items and sponsored items
• Full integration into Pods platform
• Pod top-up purchases
• Set Moods & poses
• Pimp with fashion objects
• Select from themes
• Change Status, updates to Facebook & Twitter
• Interactive Backgrounds, linked to users PC time
• Status updates from sidebar widget
• Mobile version
• Objects selectable by publisher site
• Use Avatar on Facebook and other sites
• Sponsorship opportunity for advertisers / brands
• Extensive reporting
9. Power-ups - Purchase
• Custom Power-ups per game, user selects Power-ups, purchase from Pods balance
• If insufficient Pods users can buy Pods or get Free Pods by taking up marketing offers
• Power-ups are immediately available in the game and stored if not used during that game session
• Publishers earn % of the revenue from Pod purchases
• Payment providers, incl. PayPal, Moneybookers and other local providers
• Free Pod providers, incl. Blvd Media, Trial Pay and Sponsor Pay
10. Power-ups - Use
• Power-ups are game specific – currently available in 40 games, across multiple genres
• Games have between 2 and 4 Power-ups that users can purchase
• A Power-up console is available, shows purchased Power-ups + info
• Power-up icons are displayed within the game console, once Power-ups have been enabled
• In some instances Power-ups are reset and can be used in each level of the game
• New games will be added on a weekly basis
• The Power-ups will be integrated into the Custom Games = 1,000’s games with micro payments
11. Game Customisation
• Currently 20 titles available, new titles added monthly
• User Games Categorised
• Ability to name games
• Add logo's and products to the various game screens
• Change the colour schemes (game specific)
• Save games
• Pay for the service with Pods
• Translate games
• Users custom games include the Power-up functionality
• Users games will appear in their profile and in a custom
games category
12. Post Game Screen
• Content read, via XML, from SQL
• Theme customisable
• Includes following features:
• Auto score logging
• Ability for Guests to register
• Featured Games
• Special Promo Games
• Sponsors links + logo
• Similar Games
• Players Ranking
• Future features:
• Info on badges
• Friend info
• Challenges
13. Virtual Currency - Pods
62% of users actively use their Pod accounts
How are Pods Used / Earned:
• Registration – Earn Free Pods for Registering
• Refer a Friend – Earn Pods for Friends Joining
• Challenges – Earn and Use
• Tournaments – Earn and Use
• Logging Scores – Earn
• Playing Games - Use
• Pimping Avatar – Use
• Customising Games - Use
• Virtual Gifts - Use
• Buying Power-ups in Games - Use
• Buy Pods via Credit Card, Moneybookers, PayPal, etc
• Buy Download Versions of Online and Mobile Games
14. AdverGame Creator
• Ability to name games
• Add logo's & product images to game screens
• Change the colour schemes (game specific)
• Save games, edit them up to 3 times
• Payments via Paypal & Moneybookers
• Translate games (future release)
• Detailed Reporting
• Distribution code, including: iframe, embed code,
Javascript and the ability to post to Facebook and
other social networks
• Platform incl. a simple user registration feature
• Users can log their High Scores
• Top 10 scores are displayed within the game
15. Casual Games Catalogue
Casual Games – current games catalogue:
• 700+ free play online games, incl. multi player titles
• 250+ high score games
• 500 Games with full source code
• 35 Mobile web based high score games
• 26 Symbian S60 ver 5 games
• Translated games:
• Afrikaans games
• Dutch games
• Polish games
• Ukrainian games
• Spanish games
• Turkish games
• French games
• Zulu games
• Other Platforms:
• Mochi Games
• Google Gadgets
• Custom Development:
• Multiple titles developed + new titles in development
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17. Market Overview
• Total game devices to exceed 4b by 2012.
• 2009 research showed 220m+ casual gamers
• 56m people in US play online games
• 41% of online gamers are full-time workers
• 95% play 2 – 3 times per week
• Demographics: 60% Females, aged 25 to 55
• Micro-payments = $1.6b during 2010 in USA
• Our Market:
• Online publishers – large or small (20k+ users)
• Traditional publishers, female publications
• Self service = tech savvy publishers
• English & no-English countries
18. Product Pipeline
• Expand platform to include:
– Matching = Friends + Games + Activity
– Rewards & Recognition = Badges & Grading
– Social Interaction = across Services / Modules
– Refine Micro Payments platform + increase reach
• Completion of Self Service Wizard + Development of plugins for: Wordpress,
Joomla, Drupal, etc
• Develop Enhanced Multi Player Lobby, include Pivatar + Social Interaction +
Who’s Online
• Refine AdverGameCreator + add additional high end titles
• Include Additional User Interaction = Comments, Bug Report, etc
• Pivatar:
– Save multiple versions
– 3D modelling, with gestures
• Expand Facebook platform to include single game deployment + FB Coins
• Complete mobile “skilled based” gaming platform