Innovation Games
Scaling the Game to a Game Grid
Headquarters
USA
Industry
Strategy Gaming
Technologies Used
Scala, Lift Framework, Akka, PostgreSQL
The mission of Innovation Games is to help organizations understand their customers and market conditions based on gameplay. Research shows that human beings have been hard-wired to express themselves and interact with each other through play. Engaging your customers, employees, and stakeholders through Innovation Games delivers deeper, more actionable insight than is available through those stodgy brainstorming sessions, online surveys, focus groups or other tools.
Challenges
Different games were being run on different nodes, and sometimes due to the high load of tenants on the system, there were delays and lost moves which could put the game in a bad light.
Solutions
Knoldus understood the gaming platform, identified the extension points, and recommended using Akka to distribute the games.
Results
Innovation games were able to get the distributed game grid out to the market for its customers, who loved the speed and efficiency of the game.
Challenges
Innovation Games was already very successful in their market when they came to Knoldus. The challenge was that the platform worked on a single node and was not distributable. Different games were being run on different nodes, and sometimes due to the high load of tenants on the system, there were delays and lost moves which could put the game in a bad light. Moreover, to add more tenants to the system, it was evident that vertical scaling would not work.
Solution
Knoldus understood the gaming platform, identified the extension points, and recommended using Akka to distribute the games. Once the architecture and design were accepted as a viable approach, Knoldus built the distribution strategy ground up for converting Lift Actors to Akka actors where necessary and building a Lift-to-Akka bridge in other cases allowing all the strategy games to be distributed and ready to scale horizontally.
Results
Innovation games were able to get the distributed game grid out to the market for its customers, who loved the speed and efficiency of the game. The enrollment to the games increased, and the tenant onboarding went into overdrive. Technically now, the grid can scale to any number of nodes for each game depending on the need.
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