Custom online gaming communities built from the ground up
Build a community around your game, and keep your users coming back.
Engaging online features and an integrated community.
You want to offer engaging online features for your game. You want to build a community around your game, to sell more titles and keep your customers coming back for more. And you want one solution to do it all for you.
We offer online features that interface directly with video games on a PC, console, or handheld device. Our proven technology makes compelling gameplay informative available to players in-game, while providing a vibrant community around that content on the Web.
We offer game developers:
- An API to integrate community features into your game
- A full suite of online tools to manage your data
- A web-based community for your gamers
- Complete infrastructure to handle a worldwide audience
- Gamer Profiles
- Give your players individual profiles that highlight their scores, accomplishments, and custom content.
- Global Scoreboards
- Allow your players to see where they are ranked among the entire community. Players can compare themselves to everyone else in the world playing the game across many different criteria.
- Share Custom Content
- Downloadable Content
- Allow your players to download additional game content on a regular basis, keeping the game fresh and allowing you to instantly respond to player feedback
- Game Replays
- View actual, in-game footage of top players setting high scores, all recorded and delivered in real-time.
- In-Game Messaging
- Communicate directly with your players by sending custom in-game messages.
- Marketing Statistics
- View detailed, real-time statistics on your players, what they're doing, and how often they're doing it.
- Clans
- Support sub-groups of players with clan support, and see which clans are the best in the world!
- Forums
- Engage your community with an interactive, web-based forum that is directly tied into your gamer profiles, statistics, and custom artwork.
Catapult provides the necessary framework to create an online community for your game title. Catapult provides game developers with a suite of tools to process, store, and retrieve any information from within a game.
Catapult is a fully customizable solution. There are no pre-existing constraints to fit your data into. Our engine allows us to build new features and functionality that are custom to your title quickly and easily.
In addition to providing compelling gameplay information to players in-game, Catapult provides a vibrant community around that content on the Web. This web environment is automatically created when you start using Catapult, and is later customized to enhance the gamer's experience.
Features:
- An on-demand, high-level interface using a custom-tailored XML or binary-packed protocol, making in-game implementation quick and easy.
- A multi-tiered caching system that keeps the system fast every step of the way.
- A service-oriented architecture that allows your system to scale to any size - from thousands to millions of users.
- AgoraRank, our proprietary player ranking system, which allows real-time, worldwide rankings and scoreboards, driven by the latest research in player skill calculation.
- An automatic, dynamically-populated web presence with the ability to add features on-demand.
- A robust, multi-tiered security model using industry-standard encryption and authentication for all communications.
- A development dashboard that includes real-time error reporting, logs, and product documentation.
Increase word-of-mouth marketing
Our online strategy is focused on viral marketing efforts to reach new gamers.
Strengthen brand development
Keep loyal gamers coming back by enhancing their online experience.
Collect gameplay information
Collect quantitative data for use in future titles, expansion packs, and marketing initiatives.
Measure marketing effectiveness
Measure the effectiveness of marketing efforts by tracking online metrics.
Provide online advertising channels
Put the data you collect online to good use by marketing new games to an engaged community.
