I’m so excited about Christmas, I don’t know what to do with myself!
DIY Mickey Ears Taking your headband again, line up where you would like to glue your ears. Mark a dot at each end of each ear on the headband where you will place these. Run a thick line of hot glue from marking to marking.
(Pig, before he had to have a lie down)
A gorgeously filmed version of Kipper’s Snowy Day, made specially for Christmas 2020, based on the award-winning Kipper books by Mick Inkpen.
Lots of us aren’t able to go and see a show with our families or schools this year, so here at Slot Machine HQ, we thought WE’D bring the show to YOU.
This special screen version of Kipper’s Snowy Day is showing via independent venues up and down the UK, and many of them offer a streamed version for you to enjoy in your own home or school.
Packed with amazing puppetry, gorgeous music and quite a lot of silliness, Kipper’s Snowy Day is guaranteed to bring a huge smile to your face, and a large helping of seasonal cheer.
To see the film live, go to one of these venues: (and don’t forget your ukulele and Kipper ears!)
Depot Cinema, Lewes, East Sussex – screening at 11am every day, 4th December-8th January – Book tickets
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Dumfries – screening at 10.30am and 12pm, from 22nd-24th December – Book tickets
An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway – screening at 1pm on 29th and 30th December – Book tickets
You can stream the film at home via one of the venues below, if they’re local to you, or via our main provider, Applecart Arts
Applecart Arts – 11th-24th December – Book tickets
The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington, Devon – 21st, 22nd, 23rd December (available between 10am and 12pm) – Book tickets
Midlands Arts Centre – 11th-13th December
Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton Upon Trent – 13th, 18th-21st December (available between 1pm and 6pm) – Book tickets
Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham – 19th December-3rd January – Book tickets
Newhampton Arts Centre – private screening
Learn to make a pair of ears just like Kipper’s – share your pics of them to enter our competition and win a great prize!
Grab your ukulele and learn one of the songs from the show – then play or sing along with Kipper and Tiger!
If you want the PDF showing you how to play this song on the Uke, the link is here
If you’re a teacher or a parent, download our activity pack, which has loads of stuff to keep your youngsters busy this Christmas – just click on the image below:
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There are dozens social slot games out there. Most of them have fantastic UI. Great symbols, animations and sound effects.
But when you review store ratings and read the comments, you notice that most of the slot machines have severe %RTP (Return to Player) and Hit Frequency issues and unplanned Volatility ratio.
The reason is that most of the games you play out there can't make scientific calculations of Slot machine RTP, Hit Frequency and other important parameters.
To build your own 'Slotomania' like game, to provide great experience and to be able to control your game economy, the following components should be configured properly and if needed you should be able to make quick adjustments.
Pay Line- The line on the slot window.
Number of Pay Lines - Slot machines may have several pay lines. Can be 3 lines, 5 lines or even 100 or more on video slots games.
Pay Table - Area in the Slot Machine that shows the payouts for each winning scenario.
The pay table will also tell you if there are other types of payouts.
Bonus Symbol - Combination of bonus symbols (as defined in Pay table) triggers a 'mini-game' in a slot machine game that allows the player to win additional goods.
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Scatter Symbol - Combination of X Scatter symbols initiates 'Free Spins'. Spins that generate additional profit to the player without paying for those spins.
Wild Symbol - Acts as a joker symbol to make up a winning combination on the pay line. Can be also used for other purposes, based on the 'game play' of specific machine.
Reels- Rotating barrels (or any other graphical elements) on which the symbols appear.
In modern slot machines, you can find different number of reels - two, three, four, five.
Reels can have different number of rows. Usually it's from one to 5. Most popular is three.
The most common are three and five. Statistically, more reels, it's harder to get jackpot.
Besides the visible symbols, you should be able to configure total amount of symbols for each reel.
For example, in reel 1 you can have 30 symbols in total, while only 3 are visible. and in reel 2 and 3, you will have 50 symbols
Based on the terms described above, you should be able to calculate your -
RTP - Return to Player (RTP) is the term casinos / social casino games use to describe the percentage of what slot machine will pay back to players over time. For example, if you make a hundred $1 bets on a machine on which the RTP is 90%, statistically, you might expect to get back about $90 in wins.
Hit Frequency - How often a machine will stop on a winning combination. For example, if a machine has a hit frequency of 10%, it means that statistically, the machine will stop on a winning combination about 10% of the time. It’s worth noting that many slots allow players to bet on multiple lines on each spin. The result is that, on a single spin, a player could get one or more winning combinations, along with numerous losing combinations. To the player, it may feel as though he is winning more often, but as always, over time the losing combinations will far outnumber the winning ones.
Volatility - The ratio of size versus frequency of major wins in a slot game.
So, what's your options as a social slots game developer -
1. Client side Slots logic development - You can plan and code all mentioned above in your app as client-side development.
Cons -
1. Client side development requires to 're-publish' the app every time you make changes. On some stores it's a matter of several days until your change is public
2. Client side development is dangerous - you are always in risk that your dev guys will harm existing functionality during change process
3. Not having these values as server side parameters - makes that process super inefficient. sometimes, you need to make frequent changes (same day or week) and it's just impossible.
4. Security / Security / Security - having all your logic as 'client-side', makes your app vulnerable to hackers, 'copycats'. For example - any app that resides on Android store, can be easily downloaded as APK.
Pro's -
I can't really think of any, besides some tactical advantage of making something quicker (and very inefficient) and having 'fun' of managing crazy excel files with formulas and machine details.
OR...
2. Server side Slots logic development - having your slot related logic securely managed on server side
I can't really think about Con's in this scenario. Client (mobile / web / Facebook or any other platform) do not control the outcome of the spin. it comes as a value for each spin based on all the parameters mentioned above (paytable , RTP, .....)
Security aspects are fully covered because the app is useless without having connection with company's backend. And there are various methods to make sure that only 'legit' app will make the connection - SSL tunnel, SSL Pinning, handshake mechanisms and more..
What Blazesoft has to offer -
Blazesoft developed A-Z slot backend. You can easily manage all parameters mentioned above from your admin screen and with 1 click calculation expected %RTP.
And it takes one more click to publish your changes to your players.
Blazesoft develops API that allows new or existing gaming companies to create new machines via provided SDK and to receive the output values to your Slot Machine based on predefined configuration.
All the day to day management is done via advanced CRM system.
Contact Blazesoft for more details: info@blazesoft.ca
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