Facebook, Roblox, Riot Games, Hyper Hippo and DoubleDown to speak at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle
FlowPlay’s Craig Robinson speaks at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle, offering an introduction to using Haxe for game development.
Scary, funny and everything in between: Tech companies share their geekiest Halloween get-ups
Check out the Halloween costumes from the FlowPlay team featured in GeekWire.
FlowPlay CEO Derrick Morton on why blockchain is a game changer for indies
FlowPlay CEO Derrick Morton discusses the embrace of Alto.io’s Item First approach with a strategic partnership.
Alto.io announces strategic partnership and investment from FlowPlay
Best known for its social casino games, although it also runs teen-girl MMO Our World, FlowPlay will also advise Alto.io during its ‘Item-First’ platform’s development. The platform, which includes components such as Alto Forge, Alto Wizard and Alto Wallet, is expected to go live in early 2019.
2018 Guide to Java
While Java is still the prevalent language in enterprises and there are more Java developers than anything else, this topic does not generate the level of response of the other topics for which we produce research guides. We spoke to Doug Pearson, CTO of FlowPlay as we comprised this guide.
Revealed: The 75 biggest corporate philanthropists in Washington
The Puget Sound Business Journal's 2018 Corporate Philanthropy List recognizes companies that strive to be better and more responsible businesses by rethinking how they interact with "The Triple Bottom Line" — people, planet and profit.
FlowPlay to show US sports bettors its social side
By the time of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, there is every possibility that a legal, regulated and widespread sports betting industry will be thriving across the US.
In the meantime, and certainly during this summer’s World Cup, US players will turn towards a range of daily fantasy and social offerings to get their sports gaming fix.
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.
2018 Guide to Game Development
The three most frequently mentioned keys to developing a successful game: 1) stability; 2) scalability; and, 3) social interaction. To gather insights on the current and future state of Game Development, we talked to eight executives involved in game development in some form or another. We spoke to Doug Pearson, CTO at FlowPlay ...
Gaming Standards Association creates gaming blockchain standards committee
The Gaming Standards Association and Gaming Standards Association of Europe today announced the creation of a new technical committee dedicated to creating standards for the use of blockchain distributed ledgers in the gaming industry.
FlowPlay CEO Derrick Morton puts his passion into immersive gaming
Former punk rocker Derrick Morton has taken his passion in the direction of gaming as CEO of FlowPlay. FlowPlay is a games developer and publisher. It has an immersive gaming platform that powers community-based social games, including virtual worlds, social casinos, and sports wagering experiences.
Casino Gaming to be highlighted with 3 days of experts at Casual Connect USA 2018
At Casual Connect USA 2018, experts in social casino and real-money gaming (RMG) will be tackling major issues for both independent casino gaming developers and the casino industry as a whole. The conference’s casino trackwill span three days of content...
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.
Is Your Company Independent or Co-Dependent?
Steve Jobs was once famously quoted stating, “the secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.” Employees are a critical part of any company’s backbone, no matter the size or industry of the business.
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.