Enabling the ultimate video gaming experience for your customers
The Video Game industry has been evolving at a tremendous pace for the past few years, driven by advances in online interaction, mobile gaming, streaming delivery and new revenue models.
But this rapid innovation is often accompanied by some difficult challenges, such as increasing production costs, a demand for shorter product cycles and limited understanding of how to make new revenue models work.
We, at Tavant Technologies, offer innovative, technology-driven software development services to help you overcome these and other challenges and stay ahead of the competition.
We Can Help
Having worked with some of the biggest names in the video gaming industry, Tavant Technologies understands your business needs and can help you tackle these challenges.
Leveraging our experience, we offer a gamut of end-to-end software development and testing services across the video gaming domain, including:
| > | Community sites with social networking, ecommerce, micro-transactions, user-generated content and more |
| > | Streaming, on-demand, "cloud-gaming" service integration |
| > | Centralized backend services for identity management, ecommerce, subscriptions, leaderboards and more |
| > | Social & casual video games |
| > | Video game development tools |
| > | Business intelligence |
Our Offering
We bring in a unique blend of domain expertise, technology know-how, proven methodologies and broad experience to offer cost-effective, best-of-breed services to you.
Community sites with building blocks such as:
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Social features
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| - Facebook and related social media integration |
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| - Player profiles with avatars customizable with purchased items |
| - Ratings and comments |
| - Sentiment analysis |
| - Blogs and forums |
| - Surveys |
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Revenue generation features
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| - Micro-transactions |
| - Subscriptions |
| - Ads |
| - Promotions |
| - Wish lists |
| - Gifts |
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Leaderboards, tournaments and awards
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Text and media search
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Tags and tag clouds
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Live data streaming
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Loyalty programs
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Beta and trial program management
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Game to web integration
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Infrastructure
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| - Flexible security for community moderators, administrators and editors |
| - Internationalization |
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Streaming, on-demand, “cloud-gaming” service integration
Centralized backend services such as:
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Single sign-on (identity) and personas
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Entitlements
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eCommerce
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| - Wallets with real and virtual currencies |
| - Payment processing |
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License key management
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Game asset storage
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Player stats collection
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Integration with voice and text chat
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Social & casual games
Game development tools
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World building
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Animation sequencing and blending
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Scripting language enhancements and debuggers
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Business intelligence
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Player performance stats
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Game feature usage
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Ad performance
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Web site analytics
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Sales metrics
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Subscriber retention and churn
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Technology Expertise
We have expertise in a broad range of modern technologies, including:
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Java, C#, C++, PHP, Python and Perl
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RIA using Flex, Flash, Ajax, JavaScript, Silverlight and HTML 5
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Mobile development for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry
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BI tools, such as Business Objects, Oracle, SAS, Cognos, Informatica, Microsoft and Hyperion
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Databases, such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL
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Social networking platform integration APIs, such as Facebook and Twitter
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Payment processing and subscription billing providers
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Content management systems, such as SharePoint, Drupal, OpenCMS, Alfresco and Documentum
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Cloud gaming services, such as OnLive and Gaikai
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Cloud hosting services, such as Amazon Web Services
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Content delivery networks (CDNs), such as Akamai and Limelight
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REST and SOA-based middleware
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Text search based on Solr/Lucene
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Functional test automation and load testing tools, such as JUnit, TestNG, QTP, Selenium and LoadRunner
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