Our client operates Bingo clubs all over the United Kingdom. To expand their Bingo horizon they wanted to gain online visibility by offering the opportunity to play and win Bingo cash prizes online, to the ever increasing online gaming community. They wanted a web based solution that would enable multiple players, from across the globe, to take part and play games, programmed by the game administrators, from the convenience of their homes. Based on their requirements, IcreongameStudio delivered an online application that enabled administrators to create and manage bingo gaming rooms, and players to register with the club, make deposits and play the different versions of Bingo in a gaming room of their choice.

Customer Profile
Our client is a UK based company that operates Bingo clubs all across the United Kingdom.

Business Requirement
Our client required a solution that would enable them to spread their Bingo clubs all across the UK and operate and manage them successfully. The solution was required to provide support for different versions of the game. Provisions were required that would enable game administrators to create custom gaming rooms for different Bingo versions and schedule the game play. Facilities to incorporate promotional offers and events such as loyalty points, raffle, free tickets etc were required to be built into the solution. Functionalities enabling club administrators not only to manage but also completely control the advertisements and pop-ups appearing on the website were required.

Solution

Our client online Bingo club gained a web presence, it was developed using flash, mysql and php. The front-end game module is a flash client which sends and receives data from the flash server using the XMLSocket Object. The flash server, in turn, uses a secure HTTPS connection to send and receive data from the PHP layer. All player, game and transaction related data are stored in the database.

Users can register their credit cards to crate their personal accounts, to make initial deposits (the lowest and highest bounds amount can be set by the administrator), with the website. The deposit in the account can be used by the player to purchase tickets and can be funded by the player instantly as per their requirement. Winnings, if any, are directly deposited to the account from where it can be withdrawn at any point of time. On registration, players are assigned lucky loot accounts (the luck loot amount is preset by the administrator) which can be used by them, to purchase tickets, when they run out of funds. Loyalty points are assigned to players based on their spending (spending amounts can be set by the administrator) in the club and these points can be redeemed against ticket purchase. Players have multiple choice, they can select from several different game rooms and can chose and purchase multiple tickets to play the game.

In the game, players receive tickets with random numbers (between 1-90 in case of 90 ball Bingo and between 1-75 in case of 75 ball Bingo) displayed in a 9x3 (90 ball Bingo) or a 5x5 (75 ball Bingo) grid, depending on the Bingo version chosen. The application is designed to call out numbers randomly at specific intervals (set by the administrator). The called numbers are displayed and highlighted on the calling board. Players can either manually mark the called numbers off their tickets or can opt for the auto daub option. A ticket approaching Bingo is highlighted and the numbers of calls required to achieve the same is displayed. The first player to achieve the winning combinations (rules, not results, defined and set by the administrator) is awarded the prize i.e. the relevant winning amount is credited to his/her account. In case multiple players achieve winning combinations, the prize money is distributed evenly among them. The game also has flexibility for players to purchase or cancel tickets for games that have been scheduled for a future date.

Authentication, authorization and access control features are integrated into the application for extensive security and safety. The application requires authorized users to login and then they can access to the application (both at the front end as well as the backend). An IP check is performed to ensure that the flash server request to PHP comes from a defined IP address thereby preventing unauthorized access to the user and transaction data. All gameplays are simulations - therefore if a player is unable to complete a game after purchasing the tickets, due to technical problems such as disconnection, system crash etc, the winnings (if the player has the winning ticket) are automatically deposited to his/her account. In cases when tickets have been purchased by the player but the game could not be continued due to server or application problems, the ticket money is refunded to the player.

The web solution devised by IcreongameStudio has been divided into two main modules:

Framework for the Games

  Technologies used in developing this application are:

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