FlowPlay claims industry first with social sports white label roll-out
Seattle-based social casino developer FlowPlay has launched a new white label social sports betting product which it describes as an industry first.
Powered by Sportradar's data and statistics, the new free-to-play product brings together a range of social sports betting and fantasy sports products launched by FlowPlay since 2014.
Blockchain will usher in decentralized markets and even more ICOs in 2018
As the word “blockchain” entered the mainstream consciousness in 2017, services that use the distributed ledger also won some early adoption in finance, food safety, shipping, healthcare and even video games. The attention was spurred in part by the world’s biggest blockchain-based currency, bitcoin, which saw a massive ...
Doug Pearson: Creating Truly Social Casino Games
As technology evolves and tools become outdated, such changes can leave developers in the dust and struggling to convert to mobile. Join Doug Pearson, Co-Founder and CTO of FlowPlay, for a technical discussion on how and why FlowPlay tackled these challenges firsthand by transitioning Vegas World from a Flash codebase to Haxe.
Post Mortem: The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4 Million Lines of Code
Adobe recently confirmed the suspicion held by many in the games industry that Flash is a dying platform. The official announcement that Flash will be discontinued in 2020 is threatening the infrastructure for many games and mobile apps...
FlowPlay connects with Dragonchain to build blockchains for social gaming
Social gaming platform developer FlowPlay Inc. today announced a partnership with Walt Disney Co.-incubated blockchain Dragonchain Inc.with the intent to build secure blockchain-based monetization for casual and social games. Dragonchain is a distributed ledger technology platform...
FlowPlay overhauls Vegas World, ditches Adobe Flash for Haxe
When Adobe decided to retire its Flash software, it was a big moment for FlowPlay. Fortunately, the Seattle maker of social games had anticipated the demise of Flash, which is scheduled to end in 2020. And today, FlowPlay is announcing it has converted its flagship social casino game, Vegas World, to an open-source, cross-platform development technology known as Haxe.
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Developers start your engines: The race to transition your game off Flash has officially begun
Adobe finally made the speculation of Flash’s impending death a reality this summer by announcing its end-of-life will be official in 2020. Adobe, alongside tech giants Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, will support the technology for only the next three years.
Casino Gaming to be highlighted with 3 days of experts at Casual Connect USA 2018
Lee Davy sits down with Derrick Morton, CEO of FlowPlay, the virtual world developer, to understand why people need an escape, why they choose FlowPlay’s worlds, and much more.
Let’s face it; the world sucks balls. If not, we wouldn’t spend most of our time on the phone. The virtual world is where the fun is at, and nobody knows this more than Derrick Morton, CEO of FlowPlay, a developer of virtual worlds such as ourWorld and Vegas World.
Is It Time to Bet on Fantasy Sports?
On paper – and fantasy sports fans know all about great matchups on paper – the prospective merger of FanDuel and DraftKings looked tantalizing. Naming rights aside (FanKings? DraftDuel?), uniting the fantasy sports powerhouses screamed dynasty – and control of more than 90 percent market share. LeBron James joining Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade on the Miami Heat? That was tiddlywinks by comparison.
FlowPlay CEO Derrick Morton on the return of Casual Connect, and the state of the games industry
Seattle’s status as a tech hub is well-documented, as is its reputation as a home for some of the biggest game operations such as Valve, Bungie, Nintendo and Xbox. But what sometimes falls under the radar is Seattle’s casual gaming scene, where numerous companies in the region turn out those easier-to-pick-up titles that appeal to a broader audience beyond hardcore gamers.
Flowplay CEO sees social sports betting opportunity over DFS
Derrick Morton questions the viability of DFS and lauds the opportunities in social sports betting
The potential failure of the mega merger between FanDuel and DraftKings is good news for the social sports betting sector, according to one prominent chief executive. Talking to EGR North America, Flowplay CEO Derrick Morton said the skills-based games business model is, and always has been, fundamentally flawed. “With the model built so a very small…
Adobe Flash is dead. Here’s how to save your game before it’s too late
The tech industry has been calling for the death of Flash for years. Last year, the quiet rumblings calling for its demise turned into roars as the likes of Chromeand Firefox began to phase out support. A full-on war has been waged against Flash technology and much of the casual games industry is stuck on the losing side.
Amid tumult of video game business, Seattle game-maker FlowPlay abides
The Seattle company has survived for a tumultuous decade by sticking to a pretty unglamorous market niche: casual, social games played in a web browser. And it’s making a profit, too.
Much of the video-game world is descending this weekend on Los Angeles for the E3 trade show, a mecca of crowds, noise and the new big-budget games expected in the coming year. FlowPlay will not be making the trek.
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Precursors To Legal US Sports Betting Look To Gain Traction While Federal Ban Persists
Social casino sports betting?
Another “sports betting-lite product” is actual sports betting, minus the money. Social casino company FlowPlay recently announced the launch of the industry’s first social sports white-label solution. It’s not some hastily thrown together sports betting platform. The statistics and data behind the virtual sportsbook is powered by Sportradar.
FlowPlay sets out philosophy ahead of innovative GiGse
At the upcoming GiGse (26th – 28th April, Marriott Marquis Marina, San Diego), FlowPlay and other social casino providers will be presenting on a session around how land-based casinos with established brands can leverage white-label social casino technologies. In the lead-up to GiGse, FlowPlay, CEO, Derrick Morton expands on the session, what it means to be a ‘good corporate citizen’ and how GiGse is a springboard for innovative thinking.
Working Geek: FlowPlay CEO Derrick Morton relieves stress by going totally off the grid
Working Geek is a regular feature on GeekWire that profiles technology and business leaders, offering tips, tricks and insights into how busy professionals get work done.
Derrick Morton knows how to keep it all in balance. He’s spent the past decade as CEO of multi-platform game developer FlowPlay while still making time for his interests — like backpacking, live music, and travel. “My friend, co-founder, and CTO Doug Pearson and I started our journey with FlowPlay in 2007 and recently celebrated 10-years of building virtual worlds for audiences from every walk of life,” Morton said.