Macau-based Laxino Systems Ltd has introduced a new cloud-based casino game system where it hopes to tap creative game concepts from independent developers.
The company’s chief executive Lam Iao said the system could help launch a new wave of creative content to the bricks-and-mortar casino industry. The product has been launched through International Alliance Systems Ltd and branded GameSource. It consists of a cloud-based platform offering land-based casinos access to a library of electronic games.
GameSource was unveiled at the MGS Entertainment Show 2017, taking place at the Venetian Macao casino resort, in Macau’s Cotai district.
“We are providing a platform bridging independent developers and other creative content providers with the casino operators,” Iao said according to a report at ggrasia.com. “You can perceive it as a cloud-based gaming app store… Instead of casinos getting traditional slot-machine products from slot-machine manufacturers, with our new platform, any game developer—as long as you build your game based on our application program interface, our random-number generator library and our e-wallet module—can be a provider of casino game content.”
The platform has been developed for the Macau market, with the support of gaming testing laboratory and technical consultancy BMM International LLC, known as BMM Testlabs. The company expects games developed for the platform to be quickly approved by regulators.
Laxino also plans to subsidize part of the game certification process and to launch a fund to sponsor development of game content for the new platform.
Laxino has signed a partnership with Macau-based casino operator MGM China Holdings Ltd to introduce the platform at the MGM Macau casino hotel, Iao said. The company is also in contact with other Macau-based casino operators interested in GameSource.
“We will try to capture a market share of about 10 percent to 20 percent of the Macau market in terms of terminal number over the next three years,” Iao told GGRAsia.
