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Beamable, a social gaming platform software company for developers, decided to utilize a highly customized, hybrid environment to host their popular social game, Game of Thrones Ascent. The role-playing game has seen incredible growth on Liquid Web’s Cloud Dedicated Platform and will see even more as the iPad version of the game is launched in the near future.
Disruptor Beam approached Liquid Web nehttps://www.beamable.com/eding a highly specialized platform to develop and operate a game that was expected to have immediate popularity and high user saturation upon launch. And indeed, Game of Thrones Ascent was met with immediate success as the first ever social game based on the book series by George R. R. Martin and the popular HBO television series. Not only was the game immensely popular upon launch, but they expect to gain another 1-2 million installs when the tablet version of the game is released, possibly as fast as within the first 10 days. Our Cloud Dedicated Hosting has been key to its rapid growth and will help sustain future growth because of the power and scalability necessary to develop and execute the game.
Among Disruptor Beam’s requirements for the game were fast and expandable storage, redundancy, and fault tolerance. Our technicians worked with Disruptor Beam to develop a custom, hybrid environment that met all of these requirements and more. The environment combines: