Conferences are making a comeback this year and we’re all for it! Find us at these upcoming events and drop by our booth to talk about our next generation aggregation platform and how we’re achieving over 99,95% throughout all our clients. We are looking forward to reconnecting with familiar faces after over a year of remote meetings and getting to know new members in the iGaming community.
We’re bringing a new level of immersion and VIP service to casino clients with our latest integration : Playtech Live Casino and RNG Games.
RNG
With over 350 Playtech games now available through our aggregation platform, casinos will be sure to attract new players while also providing top-quality and world-renowned slot games such as Age of Egypt, Wild Ape, Anaconda Wild II, and the Age of Gods games – known for winning the Gaming Intelligence Game of the Year award in 2018. Players can be promised a full experience through each game with impeccable 3D graphics, consistent background music tailored to the theme of each slot, and immersive user experience.
Live Casino
Playtech Live Casino, a second product offered through Alea Play, will take casino games players further by offering an immersive experience through Live Games. With the land-based casino aspects of deeper personalisation, functionality, and segmentation offered only through Live Games, our casino clients will be sure to attract and retain VIP players. Currently, our casino clients have access to the following live games from Playtech and their language variants:
Single Zero Roulette
“…This wheel has 37 numbers in total, 0-36. This is one of the easiest games to play and understand so is great for beginners and the more advanced player. …”
Prestige Roulette Lite
“…has the same offering as our Prestige Roulette. With less cameras which will enable players to experience this at a faster pace…”
Speed Roulette
“…This offers everything our Single Zero Roulette does but at a much faster pace, producing more rounds per hour, and allows players to get more games…”
Baccarat 7 Seat
“…played with our highly trained live dealer and as the name suggests up to seven players at the same table. This means that there is always a fantastic atmosphere at the games that is akin to that of a land casino…”
Baccarat Squeeze
“…with multiple camera views players will experience the squeeze up closer which will add the suspense to every game…”
VIP Baccarat
“…Our Live VIP Baccarat is played with up to 7 players at the same table and our highly trained Live Baccarat dealer…”
Mini Baccarat
“…Players can play this in a small window whilst on other products such as Sportsbook or Vegas. This is a fantastic way to cross sell your Live Casino product into other products…”
Blackjack
“…Our Live Blackjack games are played with eight decks of cards, a live dealer, a real blackjack table and multiple players. You can watch as the cards are dealt and other players place their bets…”
Ultimate Blackjack
“…played with eight decks of cards and of course our live dealer who is trained to our exacting highest standards.. Live Unlimited Blackjack enables an endless number of players to participate, ensuring your customers always get a seat…”
Casino Hold’em
“… a variation of five-card poker played with our highly trained Poker dealer and a real Casino Hold’em table. We offer a dedicated shuffler to hand shuffle the deck after each round…”
Having over 20 years of game development experience and known globally for its slot games and quality development, Playtech portfolio now specialises in gaming software, bingo, poker, sports betting, and land-based gaming, casual and fixed odds games, and augmented reality in the works as well.
Welcome to the new home of Alea where we are proud to offer you a spectrum of the latest software, honest game reviews, and up to date iGaming content!This site is the result of a merge between various versions drafted on the basis of user stories and what we believed would be ‘non-negotiable’ to these site guests and their experience. But, what exactly is a website, and what does it take to create one? We’re honored to give a chronological tour on the development of this product and what it took to be able to say Alea.com is live.
Before considering any type of merge, the site passed through different checkpoints – functionality, user definition, must-haves for each user, deadline assessment, and development timeframe.
Functionality
We began by asking ourselves: what is the current Alea.com used for and what do we want it to be used for? We had a corporate website with a solid structure and contact form included. This site worked for many years serving its corporate purpose and providing us a lighthouse for who we were through all these years.
Though, Alea was making a name for itself in iGaming through panel discussions, conference attendance, and event sponsorship. And it was time to bring a sense of responsiveness to the site that would reflect the dynamic nature of our work culture.
An About Us page would no longer suffice to explain who we were and what we provided. So, we redefined the intention of our site with the following purposes : Bring the latest iGaming content with unbiased and truthful words, and present an updated portfolio of our two products – Alea Play and Virtual Reality- with full display of their capabilities.
Consequently, we created a page for each product to keep users informed on the latest features and upcoming changes. The Virtual Reality page allows users to follow our VR endeavors as we re-adapt our virtual world with the latest tech advances. The Alea Play page invites users to explore the features of our next-generation aggregator with up-to-date statistics and latest technologies being used.
Slot games have been, of course, a central character in Alea, and we wanted to give users an inexhaustible list of the three thousand games provided by Alea Play. The Games page allows users to interact with this list and search for a particular game, software, or choose to filter through software.
All games have their own page where the user can read software-provided details such as Return to Player ratio, popularity, volatility, and Max win. Users can also try the demo version of the game and read the latest review or related news.
User-Story
The term ‘user’ has been used often in this article without much thought, but it required the most time and criticism in order to fill any “gaps” in content flow.
We defined several types of users that ranged from those who knew why they were coming to Alea.com to those that landed on our page based on a general query. Once their intention (or lack of) was defined, we considered their frequency of visits.
Would this user come once to find an answer to their question? Or could this user return weekly to find updates in the Games page list or iGaming news? With these answers, we would structure a specific website model for each user.
The intention, however, of the user was not enough for us to go by when drafting the structure of the site. We wanted a sense of flow in content and when the user found what they had searched for initially, we wanted them to flow into a new topic without giving it much thought. So, the following question was posed to each user story: “What else?“.
A simple, albeit nearly rhetorical question, that asked us to look beyond the original intention and give the user more than an answer.
Timeframe
Having planned a marketing campaign for the final quarter of the year, it was agreed that Alea.com’s debut would be the kick off to this campaign. Mid-September was then taken as a deadline with the minimum viable product prepared under the defined requirements.Admittedly, the site is just getting started in capabilities. We have a strong roadmap ahead with multiple features and content in the pipeline. So, we invite you to have a look around and ask yourself the question – What else? We’re sure you’ll leave with more than just the words in this article.
Skywind is now officially available through our aggregation platform – Alea Play. Having received the One to Watch award by the Gaming Intelligence awards of 2020 and presenting over 350 games in their portfolio, the provider is building a reputation of full immersion with premium content, making us sure that Skywind will have amazing results across our clients.
Through this integration, players will have full access to branded games such as La Casa de Papel, Downtown Abbey, Resident Evil, and Star Trek, classic slots, and real-money arcade games, with immersive player features in the works as well. As Alea Play’s markets expand, Skywind is sure to be a strong character in maintaining a fresh and relevant game portfolio. Skywind has already shown it is in tune with the portfolios of each country with up-to-date lists of top-performing games per country featuring Italy, Spain, Romania, Latvia, and Scandinavia.
We are thrilled to provide these top quality games to our clients and look forward to a partnership that never ceases to innovate.
About Skywind:
Founded in 2012, Skywind has focused primarily on providing mobile-focused content with responsible gambling at the core of their design through each game. With seven jurisdictions that span from the United Kingdom to Romania and over twenty partners, Skywind has proven to understand the balance between scalability and market-based details in each of their games.
