VSO Information caught up with two members of the RAW iGaming/ Leander Video games group to get their perception into slot design, together with director of account administration Salvador Lima Ruiz (pictured) and recreation designer Nicolas Pavelek.
Howling on the moon
Based in March 2021, RAW iGaming is a comparatively new video games designer priding itself on its easy-to-understand and boundary-pushing slot releases. It launched its first titles originally of the 12 months and has now widened its portfolio even additional by finishing its acquisition of Leander Video games.
5 reels and 1,024 methods to win
Leander has simply launched its newest launch Moonlight Wolves, a wolf-themed slot with 5 reels and 1,024 methods to win. It primarily constitutes the ultimate launch for Leander as a separate model, and it’s a recreation that has impressed everybody within the VegasSlotsOnline Information workplace and rightfully earned its place in Slots of the Week.
Off the again of that September 1 launch, VSO Information caught up with two members of the RAW iGaming/Leander group. Leander head mathematician Nicolas Pavelek revealed the important thing to creating Moonlight Wolves, whereas director of account administration for RAW Salvador Lima Ruiz defined what the freshly-combined firm has lined up subsequent.
Firstly, are you able to inform us a bit about Moonlight Wolves and what gamers can anticipate from the brand new recreation?
Nicolas Pavelek: The sport is a 5×3 multiway slot recreation. It has two essential options with good frequency to guarantee that there’s a lot of exercise in the principle recreation for leisure and a few middle-range winnings. As well as, it has a Free Spins Bonus that’s well worth the wait. Not solely does it pay some good winnings on common, but it surely additionally presents some large winnings as much as 16,000x your stake. In a couple of phrases, it’s a recreation with plenty of exercise and enjoyable that may additionally lead you to some massive winnings.  Â
What makes it totally different to different titles on the market? Â
NP: The sport has a theme that has been used earlier than however isn’t over-used. It additionally has a paying mechanism that’s well-known to seasoned gamers and the function mechanics are acquainted however with some thrilling tweaks that make them distinctive and stand out.
artwork, mechanics, math profile, and theme work collectively
This recreation is all about connecting the theme and animations with the mechanics. It’s a cohesive recreation in the best way that artwork, mechanics, math profile, and theme work collectively to reinforce them.
You’ve gone for 5 reels with this explicit slot. What’s the rationale behind this? Â
NP: First, it’s a multiway recreation and that implies that every image pays rather a lot when stacked. We wished to make it possible for the options have been well worth the efforts of the artwork group, so we would have liked quite a lot of exercise in them. Because of this high-paying symbols will probably be distinguished there. The animals being hunted by the wolves and the wild wolves present extra methods or longer combos, so we felt {that a} good stability was to have 5 reels.
How did you first provide you with the concept for the theme?
NP: We determined to give attention to the wolf theme because it’s one which we didn’t have in our portfolio and believed that it has potential. We labored from that start line and we researched the market to see what we may do higher.
we centered on having mechanics that basically work with the theme
We felt that almost all wolf-themed video games on the market have been simply together with the wolves within the paintings of the sport, so we centered on having mechanics that basically work with the theme. Â
What would you say is the important thing to creating attention-grabbing slots like Moonlight Wolves?
Salvador Lima Ruiz: The secret is to construct a slot the place gamers can really feel there’s successful potential however on the similar time, making an allowance for the quantity of video games that get launched each day throughout all casinos, these winnings must be proven incessantly – in any other case gamers received’t be affected person sufficient. Hopefully, the assistance of websites like VegasSlotsOnline will even assist to offer our video games the best publicity and visibility to on line casino gamers.
Do you might have plans for any extra slot releases this 12 months?
SLR: Now RAW iGaming has acquired Leander Video games, it’s all concerning the actually thrilling new mechanics and ideas that RAW is bringing to the market, reminiscent of Tremendous Slice. With this, gamers can play excessive risky video games in a brand new gaming expertise, taking them away from reels and transferring them to a wheel that’s simple to comply with and with the identical modifiers they’ll discover in a traditional slot.
However that’s not all, as there’s much more to return, reminiscent of Tremendous Tracks video games the place we’ll carry on innovating. With these video games, gamers will solely should give attention to the symbols… however I received’t reveal a lot. This definitely isn’t the one factor RAW has within the pipeline, there will probably be extra thrilling information developing!