Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUN 2019年6月 亞博匯 52 F or a city whose casino floors are so heavily dominated by traditional table games, specifically baccarat, there is more than a modicum of irony in the fact that Macau could well be about to pave the way for the future of EGM and slots gaming. Macau-born R&D firm GameSource is in the final stages of a four-year journey to transform the industry by developing a cloud-based gaming app store aimed at introducing imaginative new games content while providing operators with a quick and easy way to access them. The GameSource platform, set to be fully unveiled at MGM’s Macau properties in the coming months, essentially opens up the market by acting as a central hub for everyone from game developers to casino operators and even regulators. “GameSource is basically a gaming app store,” explains the company’s founder and Managing Director, Lam Iao. “Upstream we allow the casino operators to use it and select a variety of games from our gaming library. Downstream we work with individuals like university TECH TALK students or slot content providers such as CreaTec, who have already signed with us, to develop and provide game content to us. It really opens the market for newcomers.” The idea, from a developers’ perspective, is to remove barriers that may have previously prevented innovative game concepts from reaching casino floors by providing all the tools needed to create games in the GameSource platform. By creating their games using GameSource, developers have access to an array of compliance- approved modules such as RNGs, anti-money laundering safeguards and digital wallets among others all aimed at achieving regulatory compliance. “The key word here is games,” says Lam, who was previously part of the pre-opening teams for both Wynn Macau and MGMMacau. “We have worked with BMM Test Labs for the past two years to modularize a set of highly compliant software libraries that allow any newcomer who wants to build a game but doesn’t know how to build a game for the casino, because of compliance and AML, to do so. “If you are creative enough you can just use those components and build a game, which doesn’t necessarily mean slots. As long as you build a game using our 澳 門的娛樂場主要由傳統桌上遊戲特別是百家 樂所主導，這對電子博彩遊戲機 (EGM)和角 子機的未來發展築起平坦的道路，情況頗具諷 刺意味。 澳門本地原創研發的「聚遊」G a m e - Source經過四年的漫長旅程，終於迎來嘗試把娛樂業轉型的最後 階段。「聚遊」是一款雲端遊戲商店的應用程式，旨在引入富想像 力的新遊戲內容，同時為營運商提供一個方便快捷的選購遊戲方 法。 「聚遊」平台將於未來數月在澳門美高梅全面推出，成為遊戲 開發商、娛樂場營運商、甚至政府監管機構等的中心樞紐，從本質 上開放整個市場。 「聚遊」基本上是一款遊戲商店的應用程式。」公司創辦人兼 常務董事邱之林解釋道。 「從產品鏈上游來說娛樂場營運商可以使用它，並從我們的 遊戲庫中選擇各種遊戲。從下游來說我們與像大學生的個人開發 者或角子機遊戲供應商如CREATEC合作，為我們開發並提供遊戲 內容。它確實是為新來者打開了市場。」 從遊戲開發者的角度來看，可以通過「聚遊」平台上所提供創 建遊戲所需的工具，用來消除以往創新遊戲概念難以打進娛樂場 的障礙。通過使用「聚遊」來創建遊戲，遊戲開發者可使用一系列 合規獲批的軟件開發模組如RNGs、預防洗黑錢的安全措施和數碼 錢包等來開發合規獲批遊戲來滿足政府監管機構的要求。 「這裡的關鍵詞是『遊戲』。」曾服務於澳門永利度假村與澳門 美高梅開業籌備團隊的邱之林說道。「過去兩年，我們與BMM Test Labs合作，模塊化了一套高度合規的軟件開發模組，讓以前因為 不了解法規和AML要求的遊戲開發者可以容易地為娛樂場開發新 遊戲。」 「如果你有足夠的創意，你就可以使用這些軟件模組去創 造一款新類型遊戲，並不只局限於角子機類的遊戲。因為我們與 BMM合作開發這些組件，只要你使用它們來開發遊戲，遊戲獲得 認證的機率絕對超過95%。」 在營運商方面，「聚遊」整合並開發了一套小型娛樂場管理系 統，當中包括帳房管理、角子機營運管理、審計部等，然而最引人 注目的是內置的實時監管模組。其功能和需求是得到澳門博彩監 察協調局指導開發的，政府監管機構可實時監控「聚遊」平台以及 其遊戲的數據和操作情況。 邱之林說：「我們在業內的競爭對手並未能提供這類型的實時