Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | June 2012 34 The company also took the opportunity of the show to highlight its strength on the server-based side of multi-games with the innovative NovoLine Interactive platform. From both a player’s and operator’s perspective, NovoLine represents state-of-the-art flexibility and choice. It’s a 25-game standalone slot configuration that is SBG-ready for easy plug-and-play interconnectivity with the NovoLine VLT system—which supports a central-server-based RNG and centralized games and jackpot management, accounting, monitoring and reporting, depending on jurisdictional requirements—and the NovoLine Novo Unity II system, which combines electronic live table games and slots on a single platform. So you can play a machine game one minute and switch to roulette with an actual mechanical wheel, or to electronic baccarat, poker or blackjack on a sophisticated 3D virtual layout. It’s like having an entire floor in a single network. And operators can configure their mix how they like and connect any number of player terminals to the games. “Also, the roulette game is available in different versions: multi- roulette with an automatic wheel, our TouchBet version with a live dealer, and a virtual version based on a random-number generator,” Mr Lindenberg explains. “And you can interconnect as many games as you like, so there is no limitation on the number of connected types of games or the number of connected terminals. And game updates are very easy. If an operator decides that blackjack maybe is not that successful anymore, and they want baccarat, then they can very quickly update a software change to the other game. Everything is interconnected within the server-based structure. This is the future of development, platforms for multiple applications, from slot gaming, to multiplayer up to mobile and online gaming, all off one platform.” On the systems side, with Octavian ACP (“Accounting Control Progressives”), Novomatic believes it has a solution sufficiently scalable and with the right modularity, to fit the very diverse types of markets that characterize gaming in Asia. It’s a system suited to “everywhere in the world,” says Mr Lindenberg. SAS, ASP and X-Series compatible, ACP is a powerful and intelligent accounting and reporting and customer-loyalty system with comprehensive real-time internal and external auditing tools, Web interfaces and cashless, TITO and jackpot management capabilities. “It’s based on an open-source platform,” as Mr Lindenberg explains, “so adaptations and custom requirements can be done very quickly. And because it’s modular that makes the system very tunable, and also very cost-efficient, which is quite important nowadays.” Rise of the Dragon, a new progressive from Novomatic on the Super-V+ Gaminator cabinet The Super-V+ combines an exciting graphics experience with great sound Novomatic