Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING MAY 2018 66 INSIGHTS TGG recently released its take on classic shooting game “Fish Hunter”, which first swept through Asia’s video game arcades more than a decade ago and continues to be hugely popular to this day. for fun, but the methodology and the concept is highly recognized by players – they are very familiar with it,” Chan says. “If we can find a way to convert that according to the local government regulations in Macau or Singapore, we can potentially bring this new product into the market. The methodology is the same but we change it into something that fits casino regulations. “That is definitely something tourists who go to Macau or to Las Vegas will be interested in. It will get them excited because at the moment, when they walk around the casino floor, all they see are the same kind of products being offered. We want to enable the casino operators to reach new customers by customizing their products.” As one of Asia’s first open-source platform providers, TGG acts as a bridge between casino operators and game developers to enable closer collaboration and provide operators with new and innovative ideas. The result is a constantly expanding “games library” from which operators can pick and choose to meet customer preferences. However, Chan sees an unmistakable trend towards social-style casino games. “I’ve recently been doing a lot of roadshows for investors about our upcoming product lines and in a lot of instances, when they have seen ‘Fish Hunter’, they have shown me their mobile phone where they have been playing similar social games for fun,” he says. “They also said they would jump straight in to play the game in a casino if it offered the same kind of entertainment. “This is a game-changer for the market and shows that it won’t be limited to slots games only in Asia, opening up the potential for casino operators to provide more entertainment on the gaming floor. “The response we’ve received so far is encouraging because we can see that our prediction when we first started is correct: the market is looking for real alternatives to increase revenue.”