Yummy Games Quick Launch Architecture
Yummy Games Quick Launch provides all of the necessary back-office tools, web service APIs and databases to deliver Games on Demand solutions. These modules are implemented as web services to allow for a flexible and customizable service that can easily be integrated by Yummy’s partners.
Quick Launch exposes a set of interfaces to enable application-to-application communication over the Internet using XML over secure HTTP and/or SOAP. The availability of these interfaces with additional documentation, sample code, and development tools and utilities are provided to our partners.
Back-Office Components include:
Product Catalog
- Defines and lists SKUs for purchase, subscription or rental.
- Stores all your product information (meta data): pricing, game description, screenshots, rental/purchase durations, game ratings (ESRB, PEGI), trailers etc.
Promotions
- Automatically serve up lists of the Most Popular games, New Releases, Featured games (eg. recommended picks), etc to spotlight your content.
- Ad banner locations within in the Yummy Games application.
- White-label user interface allows full customization and branding.
- Free game-play Trials and Demos supported.
- User-ratings option available to rate games in service.
User Account Management
- Creates and manages customer account information (unique from your company's user information)
- Verifies the user's identity through secure authentication with your company's database.
- Facebook Connect plug-in supported.
Billing Management
- Allows you to choose a full turn-key solution to your merchant account/billing system.
- Reconciles transactions daily and performs monthly audits.
- Supports 3rd party ecommerce platforms.
Partner Extranet
- Allows access to back-end system reports such as usage, current activity and revenue.
- Provides Product Support services tailored to your needs, detailing escalation procedures between the partner Support Staff and Yummy.
Game Launcher
- Allows for "one-click" game installation and launch and uninstall functionality for end-users.
- Downloads can be queued for launch.
- End-User's System Checker is also included, which checks PC compatibility with each game.
Value-Add Components
Translation Tools
- Online editor tools to support translation of the websitek, game catalog and descriptions into other languages. The Games Player and website supports display of multiple languages.
Prepaid Cards Support
- Offer physical and virtual prepaid cards for retail outlets or for your own store promotions.
- Generate, activate, deactivate and redeem prepaid cards.
- Our API supports the card types such as Point-of-Sale Activated cards, pre-activated cards and virtual – inactive (printed on user’s receipt) and virtual –activated cards for the various retail environments for cards.