OctaGames
was ideally suited to Octavian, whose developers Furthermore, Octavian ensured that components
had deep experience of integrating innovative of the game and the underlying technologies were
games content with hardware, transaction ‘repeatable’ for rapid re-use in a growing range of
peripherals and wide area control systems. Comma6A games titles.
The business goals
The lengthy and difficult changeover from Comma6
These latest changes in AWP legislation in Italy had
to Comma6A effectively brought the Italian AWP
market to a halt for over 12 months. However, in
o Gruppo Giochi (EGG)
rendered a great many gaming machines and games
redundant, and effectively created a new market.
2008 the market became very active again.
EGG needed to develop a new games range that:
When the first certificates were granted by AAMS,
Was fully compliant with the new Comma6A
EGG was one of only a handful of providers to have
legislation and with Comma6A-compliant EGMs
their products fully licensed and integrated with the
and smart cards.
Comma6A smart card. Chicago Night was available
almost immediately when the new legislation
Embodied creative concepts that set the games
came into force, followed by further titles soon
apart from the competition through superior
after including Commander Parrot, Billy Bones,
visuals, animations and gameplay.
Comma6A Case Study: Eur
Free Wild, Roulette Club and Black Jack Club.
Generated ‘coin-in’ figures that placed the new
games in the top-performing 15% of AWP titles.
According to Crivellente of EGG, “The Octavian
Italy games, developed with flexibility, speed and
Could be fully developed, tested, approved and
great care in parallel with the emerging Comma6A
ready for market ahead of the Comma6A
legislation and technical requirements, take games
legislative change to gain early market advantage.
technology, content and security for the Italian
The key challenges
AWP market to new levels of quality and creativity”.
Although the goals were clear, the regulatory and
The results
technical requirements of Comma6A emerged only
The new Octavian games have already secured
gradually and caused considerable confusion and
top positions in the sales charts, even though they
delay in the marketplace. Key challenges that had
are available only through an exclusive distribution
to be overcome were:
network set up by Octavian Italy. So far the new
The Comma6A legislation for games was titles have been placed in a total of 28 different
continually modified and updated.
cabinets, each one individually licensed under
Comma6A was scheduled for introduction in
Comma6A.
2006 but did not happen until mid-2008.
Results for operators have been impressive too, with
EGG was a manufacturer and Octavian a
the games introduced into the new market since
software supplier, each with different
June 2008 achieving the desired ‘coin-in’ figures.
approaches and ways of working.
Future sales potential has been assured too,
All of the above challenges mean that continual, thanks to adherence to a rapid development
flexible development and investment were required schedule, high quality standards and securing that
to ensure the launch of a strong games offering. vital early-to-market advantage. Previous Comma6
machines are coming to the end of their licence
The Octavian solution
period (40,000 Comma6 machines had to be taken
Octavian developed Chicago Night to meet EGG’s out of the market by September 2008 with a
commercial requirements and to comply with the further 100,000 machines to follow by December
emerging Comma6A specifications. During this 2009). This means a fast-growing market for new
process multiple platforms were investigated and machines, replacement machines, conversion kits
trialled to ensure that the final game met the for machines that have been certified and only need
required regulatory, performance and pricing criteria. a game update and, of course, for new games.
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