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Accelerate Game Changes with Game Master
Aurora
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Game Master provides increased flexibility to add and modify games
For more information on Aurora, IGT’s new lottery technology
solution, visit
www.IGT.com.BUSINESS LOGIC
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One of the major tenets upon which IGT’s Aurora platform is built
is making the right games available to the right players at the right
time. Faster game changes. Faster time to market. These are some
of the primary goals of many lotteries today, and Aurora Game
Master makes them happen.
GameMaster is IGT’s new high-performing drawgame engine that
improves speed to market for new game introductions. Because
IGT recognizes the many factors, including each lottery's own
internal processes and schedules, that impact the ability to bring a
new game to market, Game Master provides a flexible deployment
model and isolated game engines to better serve business needs.
Game engines are decoupled from each other and from other
functionality, so they can be added, removed, and scaled
independently. This entirely flips the traditional paradigm of
an architecture where game logic and business logic are tightly
coupled, limiting speed to market. Game Master is based on a
loosely coupled Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) where the
game logic, pool management, winner processing, and other core
game functions are separated from the rest of the transaction
processing logic to get games into the hands of players sooner.
Other unique benefits of Game Master include:
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Game Master may be offered in a lottery data center or
in the cloud as a Software as a Service (SaaS) to provide
deployment flexibility and meet regulatory requirements.
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The ability to integrate with both IGT and non-IGT
existing systems via industry de facto standard Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) to simplify systems
integration.
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The agility to allow lotteries
to make game changes
using configurability
without requiring
software changes
to reduce effort
and costs.
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Support
across multiple
jurisdictions, which
allows multiple
lotteries to share a single
prize pool in real time. This
allows multi-jurisdictional rapid
draw games to be supported.
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Gradual migration path from the existing lottery system to
Game Master to reduce the major pain points in a traditional
“Big Bang” conversion and allow the lottery’s business needs
to drive the technology delivery.
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Channel-agnostic design makes Game Master ideal for
today’s lottery environment, where multiple sales channels
need to be served and new ones added on short notice.
Game Master’s advanced architectural design is highly reliable
and supports both local and remote data center logging, as well
as large jackpots, with the ability to scale both horizontally and
vertically. Even though Game Master is based on the latest proven
technologies in the market today, special focus has been placed on
the reliability, integrity, and performance for which IGT is known.
The ability to deliver more games and make game changes faster
results in tangible benefits to the lottery, retailers, and players.
The lottery can manage its game portfolio more effectively and
efficiently. Retailers benefit from increased variety, which drives
more players to their stores. Finally, players benefit from enhanced
entertainment value across retail and digital channels. That’s IGT’s
definition of a win-win-win!
The end result is the creation of an unlimited and transformational
game portfolio…today. More games means more opportunity to
engage new and current players with exciting content and gaming
opportunities. Game Master is the revolutionary game engine that
can help lotteries do just that.
Aurora Game Master's loosely coupled architecture allows game changes
independent of one another, allowing for faster deployments.