Brace Yourself, It's The Rapid Deployment Framework - A Solution In The Making

Brace Yourself, It's The Rapid Deployment Framework - A Solution In The Making

Skillpod Media has embarked on a journey to attempt bringing all of this together and offering revenue generating opportunities at the same time. To ensure that it is a sensible option it should be possible to deploy the platform quickly and effectively in any country in the world. In essence it means that it should be fully localized and allow for translation into all of the languages on earth.

In steps the Rapid Deployment Framework (RDF).

The development and deployment of this is an ongoing process and this is due to the commitment to offer a product to the market without equals. The need arose to set up a framework which makes it possible to fully customize the layout of the site, do translations, build a community, monetize it and integrate it into Facebook.

RDF is a solution starting out strongly, with 9 months of R & D effort put into it. So far it has been deployed in a couple of markets with loads more lined up. We will continually look at how the whole thing progresses. Currently it is a fully functioning framework already and is proving very successful wherever it has been deployed.

The concept is sound and should offer many companies as close to an out-of-the-box solution as possible. How well all of these elements will work can only be gauged after it has been in the market for some length of time.

The elements that should be monitored closely:

* Localization and translation

* Facebook integration

* Community building elements

* Monetization, through micro payments

To date there have been nothing but success stories with RDF when looking at the above mentioned elements. The first important element to have a look at is localization and translation. We will be looking at two of the portals that have so far integrated the RDF for running their portals.

The first was a slightly less complicated version deployed in Belgium and the Netherlands. For this deployment it was necessary to translate everything into French and Dutch. The translations were done through all of the games with the translated text in all the parts of every single game as well as game descriptions and other parts of the site.

The second was a more complicated version that had to be done in Arabic, which needed a lot more attention to details in terms of language and culture. Although widely spoken throughout the Middle East, there wasn't a lot of technical know-how available when it came to localization and accurate translation. The translations were however done successfully with the Arabic text displayed from right to left as well as appropriate Arabic clothing for the SkillPod avatar creation system, aptly named Pivatar.

These two have also been integrated into Facebook and are proving to be very successful. Player registrations are constantly growing and players are regularly coming back to play the games.

There are also a couple of community building elements integrated into RDF. The only feature you will really find in some other platforms is a chat system. Portals owners will be able to set up tournaments for players to make sure there is some healthy competition. Players also have the option set up challenges to compete against friends in the community. A messaging system allows for player interaction and also has virtual gifts that players can send to one another.

The revenue generating comes from micro-payments, which will be used to buy pods, the virtual currency of this online games platform.The pods can then be used to buy better clothes and accessories for your pivatar, enter tournaments, buy power-ups, sending virtual gifts and for the challenges.

To what extent these will all be used can only be gauged over time. As it is a constantly evolving concept it would be interesting to see in what direction the players and portals take it. The next couple of months will bring loads of extra players and a couple of new portals up and running on RDF. The only thing to do now is to wait and see how successful it will become.

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