Services

Over 40% of the global game development and game services related budgets are likely to be outsourced to service providers in East Europe and South Asia. Leading game developers all over the world have started to recognize the tremendous cost benefits that outsourcing can bring to them. It is expected that 90% of the games studios would resort to outsourcing by 2008.

Spiel offers a host of services in the field of Game Development to cater to all the needs of entertainment companies, publishers, developers, carriers, etc. Our services range from Mobile game development, Online Game Development, Content development, Porting & Deployment, Outsourcing of PC / Console Gaming Services, Quality Assurance, Mobile Advertising, etc.

Mobile Game Development [J2ME, Symbian, Brew, Danger, Blackberry, Flashlite & Windows Mobile]

Mobile Game Porting, Deployment and Q.A.

Online Game Development [Flash & Shockwave]

Art and Animation Assets development for PC, Console and Handheld Games

Game Testing for PC, Console and Handheld Games

Advergaming and In-Game Advertising

Mobile Game Development Spiel's state-of-the-art production studio at Mumbai employs a multi-disciplinary, cross-skilled team comprising of game designers, concept artists, 2D and 3D graphic artists,  pixel artists, modelers, programmers, project managers, game testers, and creative writers. Spiel has the expertise to develop great 2D / 3D games which are fun to play, addictive and appealing to all age groups either in India or globally. We develop games on J2ME, Brew, Symbian, Hiptop (Sidekick) and Windows Mobile operating platforms. Our main focus is on delivering high quality performance based games which are innovative in content and region specific. Our games will connect with the audience for which we develop, keeping in mind their lifestyle, lingo, nature, likes and dislikes. Having developed many 'AAA' mobile titles, we can provide you the best quality within a stipulated time frame. Please feel free to Ask us to discuss Mobile game development opportunities. You may also visit our Product section to have a look at some our developed games.

Mobile Game Development supporting all popular handsets

Porting, Deployment and QA Spiel's deployment and QA group has a bunch of talented engineers and artists who work round the clock to deploy mobile content to virtually every mobile device available in the market today. Spiel offers cost-efficient porting solutions to publishers, developers and manufacturers globally. The Spiel deployment group ports Spiel games, as well as games for third party. Our porting and QA services include:   J2ME Porting [Supporting more than 500 handsets, GSM & CDMA]  Cross platform porting [J2ME to BREW, J2ME to Symbian, J2ME to Danger, etc.]   Operator specific porting [Vodafone, Sprint, Cingular, T-Mobile, 3, etc.]   Functional tests, download testing, performance testing for all leading networks [Quality Assurance & Submission Management]

Development & Porting Services for T-Mobile's Danger Sidekick Devices (Slide & LX).

Brief Case Study of Cross-platform Porting:
The Team at Spiel successfully ported a high profile mobile game for a Top rated AAA publisher for the T-Mobile Danger Sidekick 4th generation device having it's own SDK and operating system. The project included porting it from a standard J2ME build to as per the specifications of the Danger SDK. The game is now compatible with Sidekick Slide and LX phones available at T-Mobile and powered by Danger.com. The game was called Bust-A-Move®, developed by Taito®, licensed by Fujin® and ported by Spiel Studios for SK4.

Please feel free to Ask us to discuss porting opportunities for your games.

Online Game Development The development cycle for a game includes game concept, scripting, programming, character designing, animation, level making, music production, testing and quality assurance. The cycle is divided into 3 parts, Pre Production, Production and Post Production. All our games are processed through this conveyor belt and like a gaming machine, high quality innovative games are rolled out. Our Top priority is maintaing quality as per international standards. We try and keep our overheads as low as possible, to provide our clients great cost benefits by quoting attractive prices. Our team is skilled to develop 2D/3D/Multiplayer Online games on platforms like Flash and Shockwave. Our level design, art work and production values are of very high standards and are never sacrifised. You may Ask us to show you are work samples and to discuss development opportunities.

Development of 2D/3D/Multiplayer Online Games on Macromedia Flash and Shockwave platforms

 PC and Console Game Art & Testing Outsourcing

Most game development companies have acknowledged the difficulties that they face with the development and testing of games that are built for new generation game consoles. Further, this activity has huge costs that go with it.

India is appropriately poised to deliver the required range of services at lower costs with its huge talent pool in this domain.

Spiel offers gaming outsourcing services for PC, Console (XBox/360/PS2/PS3/Wii) & Handheld (Nintendo DS, PSP, Gameboy) games in the field of:

Game Art development
Creativity and Game Designing
Game Testing and Quality Assurance

We have a great pool of talented artists and animators who can create excellent graphics and visuals for games using 3Ds Max, Maya and ZBrush. Our team is highly skilled on 3D Character design, 3D Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, Skinning and creating Animation sequences.

Spiel aids its partners in two areas (budget and headcount) allowing a development team to focus on the most critical aspect of the development cycle - completing the game on time.

The Spiel team works on the all aspects of game testing, including functionality testing, gameplay testing and certification testing. Our testers are professionally qualified in testing methodologies and test strategies and carry this out through efficient test plans and rigorous test documentation.

We have a ready infrastructure with:

High-end machinery
Full range of debug / test units from all console manufacturers
Video and audio conferencing facilities
Tools and software competency
Bug Databases- Devtrack, Test Track, Bugzilla, Test TrackPro
Physical and Electronic security for game laboratories and offices
Access to talented programmers, artists and testers

 Brand Promotion, Advergaming & In-Game Advertising

The in-game advertising market is projected to reach $732 million by 2010, up from $56 million in 2005 and $34 million in 2004.
--Yankee Group

The rapid increase of use of wireless devices like mobile phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and smartphones with improved technology have enabled entertainment companies and corporates to showcase their brand in a much innovative and unique way.

Spiel besides being India's premier Mobile Game developer, has pioneered the unique concept of brand promotion through mobile & online games in India.

A few advantages of In-Game Advertising:

  Brand Establishment
  A Unique and Innovative channel for marketing
  Brand Recall
  Directly reaching to the consumers
  Targeting a wide age group of people from 10 - 60
  Gives your brand / product an edge over your competitors
  Helps your brand / product to interact with your customers directly increasing the brand value and recall

In-Game Advertising has been proven to be ideal for companies who want to target their brand to a large audience Worldwide.

For quite some years, Hollywood has been using the mobile platform to develop games based on the movie. This technique has been very successful in the publicity campaign to generate the hype and create curiosity during the pre-release of the movie.