Collaborative Integration, Development and Porting for Retroware's Games
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Retroware is all about modern retro games. They develop, publish, make merch, and run arcades.
They are a collective of skilled, international developers, artists, and creatives working together on video games, rad swag, and arcade machines.
They love providing retro-inspired gaming experiences as well as producing modern, carefully-crafted titles and merchandise without compromise. They've always been an Internet name synonymous with linking the past to present-day entertainment.
But now, Retroware aims to be Today's Source for Tomorrow's Classics!
The Challenge
Retroware faced challenges in refactoring and standardizing the development of their games and required developers who could seamlessly integrate into already ongoing projects. As the partnership progressed, the specific challenges encountered included:
- Mid-project Integration: Azumo needed to integrate into Retroware projects, which were already over initial stages of development, to refactor and develop new features on top of it.
- Project’s Scalability: Retroware’s video game projects lacked scalable structure and needed tools to facilitate an agile game and level design development and iteration, while at the same time keeping optimized performance.
- Standardization: Azumo’s knowledge on standard development was beneficial to create development environments easy to navigate for any (current or future) member of the team.
- Porting: Retroware needed the knowledge to port to several platforms and environments with specific needs and controls.
The Solution
Azumo's approach to addressing Retroware's needs involved:
- Re Architecture and Documentation: Azumo refactored Retroware’s projects where needed, and also documented them by creating and redacting wikis.
- Tooling: Azumo’s development team created tools such as character creators, cheat consoles and level creators that were essential for design and debugging.
- Value-Added Propositive Contribution: Azumo developers produced and integrated tools and features beyond Retroware’s specific requests, leading to more robust development environments.
Getting Results
Integral Development, Performant and Scalable
- Optimized Multi Platform Development: Retroware’s projects profited with optimized and stable performance across every platform needed, while sustaining a centralized development environment.
- Proactive Involvement and Support: Azumo team’s flexible approach in providing - and proposing- customized solutions established it as an essential part of Retroware’s projects’ development.
- Easy-to-Navigate and “Toolful” Environments: Retroware’s projects were enhanced with tools useful for engineering, art, design and debugging, while becoming increasingly easy to navigate thanks to extensive refactoring and documentation.
As Retroware projects advanced, Azumo was able to fulfill and even predict the different projects’ needs to deliver robust and satisfying outcomes.
