VMC is quickly becoming a leader in the world of gaming entertainment, specializing in the design, development, and quality assurance of computerized products in the Gaming industry. Founded on the legacy of being the leading provider of consulting and outsourcing of quality assurance, testing, and support for the video games industry, we bring our acquired expertise and best practices to the world of gaming.
As hardware and software testing partners to the leading electronics and high tech companies in the world, VMC offers customized manual and automated testing of software for electronic gaming machines (EMG), hand held gambling devices, and online games. VMC also represents years of successful development of electronic games across platforms, including online, and leverages our expert development and quality assurance background to help you bring game concepts to life, enhance existing games, and extend successful intellectual property to new technologies.
Beyond gaming software, VMC can provide you with teams of experienced hardware engineers for testing all electronic hardware types, to ensure your EGM hardware exceeds operator expectations, performs according to regulator standards, and drives an exceptional user experience for patrons. We can navigate testing for complex reel functions, touch screens, audio and sound design, ticket in-ticket out processes, biometrics, and beyond.
We know the intense scrutiny regulators apply to companies in the gaming industry. We employ skilled technicians, working in secure environments, who understand the intricate rules for testing and approval regulations by jurisdiction and gaming type. Whether it is the complexity of wide area progressives, video poker data encryption, complex video slots, or sustained engineering for early generation stepper machines, VMC is your trusted partner for design, development and testing in the world of electronic gaming.
VMC has consulted on, developed and tested applications in many lines of business including, but not limited to the following:
- Internet Gaming and Games
- Electronic Games and virtual worlds
- Electronic payment gateways
In the area of Internet Gaming we have expertise with developing online Gaming engine and sites:
- Development of multiple game engines
- Development of multiple Flash-based and downloadable games
- Development of secure Websites to host the Games including but not limited to the following:
- Websites that provided multiple games that were for Free – that were still integrated into our wallet system with PLAY money.
- Websites that provided multiple games that were using Real Money and were integrated into our full fledged wallet system.
- Websites that allowed multiple partners to provide Play for Free and Play for Money lobby’s within the same site
- All websites had secure login and authentication using existing credentials from one or multiple client’s accounts, including use of SSL accelerators as required.
- Websites could integrate with multiple partner wallet/account software
- Integrations with external Gaming sites and mobile appliances
- Back office, reporting and wallet development including but not limited to:
- Lobby reports and sir reports detailing:
- Play reports (Real & Play money, Bonus management)
- Player profiles (Real $ & Play games) and account management
- Game details including moves (hands played)
- Collusion reports, banned user reports
- Different partner reports and wallet transactions
- Tournament reports:
- Per game type reports including
- Development of automated collusion tools
- Customer service tool creation including collusion tools and reports
- Developed tournament software that allowed ring games with multiple lobbies
- Developed scaled back mobile extensions to some of the games
We are used to working with gaming commission restrictions and have worked on projects to obtain:
- Gaming associated approval & certification
- Random number generator (RNG) implementation
- Game fairness
- Player collusion
- Gaming commission certification and approval to test and host our Games and servers in their facility.
In the area of gaming QA we have successfully completed the following mandates for our clients:
- Test strategy
- Testing approach
- Testing methodologies
- Risk and cost benefit analysis
- Test Planning (white box, black box, hardware etc)
- Test plan writing and case creation
- Test process management
- Data analysis
- Software & Games Certification
- Software applications over 5,000 different games certified
- Legal and branding requirements
- User information requirements
- Technical (White Box and API) and networking requirements
- Executed in 22 languages
- Automated and hands on processes
- Centers of excellence à US, UK, Canada and India
VMC helped create and continues to improve this certification program