Where is Online Slots Technology Going?

April 26, 2013

Go back just a year or so, and the tech used to deliver online slot games was a lot different. Most online casino sites simply had a downloadable casino application, and maybe a smattering of instant play video slot games. Certainly mobile gambling was in its infancy, as mobile devices were simply not common enough to warrant investment in the development of mobile gambling applications.

Fast forward to today, and mobile gambling is all the rage, with instant play versions of almost every online slot available, and very few online casino sites now offering a downloadable casino application at all.

If you use a PC or Mac for you online gambling, then chances are you are using some form of Adobe Flash developed online slot games. The mainstream adoption of Adobe Flash as the development tool for instant play online slot games has effectively standardized them across any browser platform that can run Flash, which is just about every one of them.

When it comes to mobile gambling, then all of the Apple iOS and Google Android equipped smartphones and tablets have access to an ever increasing number of high quality mobile casino applications. It seems that in the last year, every major player in the online gambling market has rolled out a mobile casino application.

The we have some very up to date trends that are currently emerging. Just look at the new deal set up between Bally Technologies and Unity Technologies, which allows Bally to start developing video slot games using the cross platform Unity 3D engine, and deploy games using the Unity Web Player.

So, our predictions for the next year are: We will see a greying of the segmentation between normal play and mobile play, with mobile gambling applications offering an increasingly full featured service to equal that of playing through the online casino site using a desktop PC.

We also believe that Adobe Flash is about overdue for retirement. Instead, we will see more online slot games developed using just HTML 5.0, which is more lightweight that Adobe Flash for many applications.

Finally, we think that Bally Technologies will set the stage for next generation 3D slot play, by deploying some mind blowing video slot games using the Unity Web Player. Indeed, we find this the most exciting potential development of the next year.

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