Betverse (soon Skillgaming.com) partners in Asia!
Led by the global head of business development for Betverse (in future, Skillgaming.com), Karen Yap, the team spent the last 2 weeks in Malaysia (at Level Up KL 2019), Japan, Indonesia and finally, Singapore.
Betverse will be partnering with Lion Fish studios who is a local games developer in Singapore. Games featured on Betverse for full-blown skills-based-betting will be Super Parcel Panic, Lion City Heroes and more that the studio will be developing for Betverse. Furthermore, after successful meetings with the management team of Benua Softworks, an upcoming developer in Indonesia, a white-labelled version of Run Roll Rumble, Proto G and Drunken Alien will be integrated as well. This will bring multiplayer fighting and hack and slash games to the platform. Benua will also be providing game development services to Betverse gamers and community members.
The developer of Orbiz, the popular zombie survival shooter, shared their (Mr. Made Wira Aditya, CEO of Anoman Studio) concerns about the state of the industry as indie developers continue to struggle across the globe if not picked up by a prominent publisher. Although Orbiz managed to get thousands of paid downloads on Steam, Karen Yap stated “the opportunity to supplement existing ad or DLC based revenue streams through Betverse is monumental.” Orbiz will be integrated into Betverse (mobile version) for in-game betting next year. Anoman Studio will also be providing game development services to Betverse gamers and community members.
Karen additionally met Chiang Song Lim, the CEO of Rotten Mage, a local Singapore based indie developer behind the 8/10 Steam rated ‘Spacejacked’ side-scroller meets tower-defense game. It is available for Android, PS4 and Vita and Rotten Mage will feature Spacejacked on Betverse for in-game betting and develop titles for Betverse.
All in all, the Betverse team estimates that owing to the integration of the above mentioned titles, the user base in terms of signups will receive a significant boost. “Across all to-be integrated titles, we estimate the user base to be in the 10–30,000 range”, calculated Karen.
*Betverse is currently in closed beta and will be in open-beta later this year. Betverse’s current closed beta name is a project name and will soon be rebranded to Skillgaming.com for global launch.
