case study

World’s First Multiplayer Cricket game, made by us was the only worthy competitor at its time to Brian Lara Cricket and topped the Zapak.com portal for 3 years in a row.

• Topped Zapak.com portal for more than 3 years
• Drove a lot of ads due to it’s unique in-game placement of ads. Cadburys, Compaq, Kolkata Knight Riders to name a few, something that wasn’t done before in games.
• Featured tons of animation, highly optimized to deliver content over the internet at spees that were not so good as compared to today’s generation
• Many game modes to choose from,
  • One Day
  • Test Match
  • Scenario
  • Multiplayer
  • 20-20
• This game spun many variants in the market and was a trendsetter

Practically 2 years in the making, this game did it all for us. I have been instrumental in designing core mechanics, the multiplayer architecture, and the tech and product design behind the in-game ads. Back then, Smartfox Server was not even out in the market, we had found a method to connect to a TCP/IP port, and a Multiplayer server was born out of this research (research was done in 7 days flat).

I am extremely proud of this game for a lot of reasons.

• The sheer size of the team that created it, many artists and animators, our artists watched videos or made us act out the sequence.
• The whole company, practically around 100 people played the multiplayer game simultaneously and helped us fix the game.
• A few years later when I left the company, I saw the game still generating jobs, my new company was still working on my old game, a proud moment!
• Around the year 2019, I met two different individuals at two different locations in India, both claimed to have played my games in school/college. I had tears in my eyes. Another proud moment!

You see we don’t just make games, we touch people’s lives! I sincerely believe that.

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