Scientific Games announced IWG and NEKTAN as partners

The platform includes Sciplay.Studio, a suite of integration services that allows lotteries to securely deploy third-party internet-based games. 

Sciplay.Studio features game integration tools, including a game development kit with standards that ensure the secure and consistent integration of all games across the technology platform.

“Scientific Games has created a catalog of exciting interactive games with numerous play styles, themes and game genres, and now Sciplay.Studio opens the door to even more game innovation from high quality third-party game developers such as IWG and NEKTAN,” said Jerry Bowskill, Chief Software Architect for Scientific Games. “Sciplay.Studio enables us to work with our partners to support their innovations and it enables our lottery customers to offer fresh, new, out-of-the-box content to their players that meets all of the standards of integrity and security that they require. Our customers can create high quality game portfolios with innovative content to help grow playership.”

With more than 10 years of experience developing iLottery games, IWG is one of the leading providers of internet and instant games to lotteries worldwide. As a major game provider for the UK National Lottery, IWG has supplied over 150 games to that Lottery and is currently contracted to supply interactive instant win games for the upcoming launch of iLottery by Norsk Tipping, the Norwegian National Lottery, which will have a strong focus on mobile content.

NEKTAN provides unique, new touch games for lotteries with content and tools that can bridge the gap between social, internet and mobile gaming. With a platform that can offer games across a wide range of devices including computers, tablets, mobiles, betting terminals and interactive TV, NEKTAN is focused on localized game content that resonates with jurisdiction-specific themes, including images of cities, landmarks and more.

The Sciplay platform enables third-party game integration with partners such as IWG and NEKTAN by allowing Scientific Games to generate the game mechanics within Sciplay.Studio, publish an API for the game developer and conduct a formal mathematical simulation to verify the Return to Player game mechanics.

Sciplay.Studio tools support quality game development in both Flash and HTML5, the emerging standard for games that can be displayed on a wide range of tablet and mobile devices. While in production, the game is maintained as an integral part of Sciplay.Studio’s support responsibilities for quality and security. Approved games are configured on the Sciplay platform, tested, modified as necessary and released to the production environment as scheduled by the lottery. Sciplay.Studio’s services also include game play analysis for all third-party game content to help lotteries better understand their players and plan new game releases.

Scientific Games will continue to work with select third-party game development partners such as IWG and NEKTAN on exclusive partnership opportunities worldwide to support their innovations.