Announcing the Launch of Wizard Gaming - A new software provider!

I am very interested in this new software ... I simply don't have the time... :(
Maybe sometime next month...

Yes, I was wondering where you would be in this discussion... Thanks for telling why.
vinylweatherman, you following this?
 
As usual, great review Zoozie :thumbsup: I'm sure the folks at Wizard Gaming appreciate it.

As for the slots, I agree with Zoozie: the graphics and themes are decent - the artwork is good, but the slots should give more variety in action. I'm sure that reading some of the slot reviews/discussions, it's the bonus rounds that players find to be an important part of the game. And a lot of players like high variance with a chance for a big payout.

@Wizard gaming - there are a number of very helpful threads and polls buried in the "Online Casinos" forum which discusses game play in slots. You may want to do some searching. I'm sure you'll find it beneficial :D
 
I have been contacted several times over PM by Wizard Gaming with questions
from the development people also. Though I gave a harsh review they are
still open minded and taking my critic serious. I find this open communication a good start for the casino provider. Openess is important to gain the trust of players in my opinion.

Still they can not do miracles in a week until next release, but they are aiming for at least making wild multiplier/freespin multipliers modifications to existing slots.

I am surprised they got this far without really researching the video-slot market or at least looking at the competion eigther online or at B&M casinos. I would not be happy with the video-slot consultants if they used such.
 
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I tried some of these slots in fun mode, and I agree with Zoozie...they need to be made more interesting to the players. (higher variance=chance of hitting a decent win=more interesting). Hitting freespin after freespin round, without actually getting anything from them, is just no fun.
I'm sorry to say, I was litterally bored half to death in 30 minutes (maybe a little harsh, but...), but I'll certainly keep an eye out for any improvements.
Any new software provider will get my attention, since competition, in my view, can only benefit the players, because everyone then need to be on their toes, to keep players interested.
Keep up the good work Wizard :)
 
I got a bonus round (free spins) once on only one of the games, and it paid out about 25x bet size. I never got any bonus rounds on any of the others so I wasn't aware that all the bonus rounds were the same - I think personally I could deal with the games being clones of each other during regular play if the bonus rounds were mixed up a bit. Throw in some expanding wilds on a few, everyone loves those. And if you have to pick free spins it would definately be more fun if you had the option of x spins @ x multiplier (ala Dragon's Loot or Shiver me Timbers) - as long as there's not a ONE free spin @ ONE x multiplier - that just p*sses me off! :D

Zoozie I'm glad they're talking to you about this, I'd love to see this software go somewhere. :thumbsup:
 
I can't comment alot on the games as I only played one....(happily ever after) as I saw the free spin feature.I was going to comment on the time it took to download this game.Ok I'm on dial-up and use to slowish d-loads but this game took 1& 1/2 hrs.I was having heart palpitations near the end...;).I don't think it was my connection and went to the site just now to double check the d-load time.I see now that not only one game was d-loaded but two! ( also 20,000 leagues).I guess this explains why it took so long to d-load ( what I thought was) one game .I'm sure most people have high speed connections and might not notice the longer d-load time.I don't think I've ever seen a site that installs/d-loads two games at once?.Anywho........good luck Gold Rock on the casino!
 
I have a few comments so far:
1. If I try to change the denomination several times fast, then every second click is ignored. The third one and the fifth one has effect, the second and the fourth is not taken. Same holds for select lines button.
2. In Keep'n it reel I don't like the black background together with the sharp contrast of symbols borders. Feels like there's a big black hole in the background when I'm playing a slot machine.

Edit: and one more, the latest denomination is not remembered.
Edit: another, in Keep'n it reel I got 4 scatters, paytable says it's 18x, yet I was awarded 25x total bet.
Edit: the spin and stop spin button - and even the bet max button!!! - also reacts on right and middle mouse click. Someone accidentally right-clicks on betmax, and...

Given the above comments, I would consider disabling the real money play for now. The false scatter payout is a bit scary, although it favors the player.

One more, Lizard Lounge, the car scatter animations are played consecutively on each reel slightly after that particular reel stops. I mean for the second reel the fourth and fifth reels are still spinning when the animation for the second reel is played. As a consequence, there's a huge delay when you get the car on reel 4, because you are ready to spin, but the animation is still playing, and the spin button is not enabled as the stop spin buttons is shown, although the reels have already stopped. Now pressing the spin confuses the game, as the sw takes it as a spin and a stop spin and behaves accordingly. The same holds for Happily ever after, and I guess all games with reels 2-3-4 feature trigger with animation.
Happily ever after, when you have choosen the free spins you still have the cursor (stick) although you can't do nothing with it.

And one more, why the frogs are present during the free spins if bonus games can't be triggered during free spins?
 
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Wanted to thank everyone on the forum for their feedback on the software. It's been very useful for us to put the software out in front of everyone and the suggestions we have got have been most helpful and insightful!

Have had a chance to talk to our development team.

We will be improving the spinning motions of the reels for our next release which comes out shortly.

Progressive slots will be coming out with this release as well.

We will be able to make a number of our games into slots with different variance degrees with the release after this. (Some will become high variance and others very high variance for example)

For these games as well we will add free-spins with a wild multiplier or stacked multiplier.

By all means, if there are other areas we can improve the software in please let me know here or in PM.
 
I've tried to download the casino quite a few times but everytime I did it and after the downloading when you agree to the terms and condition, it always comes up that my C:\ is unavailable. Hahaha... that is soooo funny. Then it tells me to select another and then just ends prematurely. So I guess they don't really want/like me to give it a try after all.

Also, did anyone notice or was it just me that their call-centre is actually located in Nevada or at least their phone number is. 1-702-xxx-xxxx, are code 702 is Nevada. How interesting... wasn't there some problems with Nevada being a very noisy state when it comes to online gaming and stuff like that? Not sure if it's a good thing or not.

Anyways, I wish that someone could tell me what's wrong so at least I could see/try to see what the casino is like. Why am I getting the error?
 
Edit: another, in Keep'n it reel I got 4 scatters, paytable says it's 18x, yet I was awarded 25x total bet.

I heard back from our team on this, the paytable needs to be updated.

The game is paying out as it should but there was an error with what appeared in the paytable.

Thanks for catching this one gerilege.
 
The casino reminds me of the 7spins casino that opened up not long ago.
I myself found the bonus rounds not all that profitable. Graphics are much different then other casinos but as i said i found the payouts not all that great.
 
One more, Lizard Lounge, the car scatter animations are played consecutively on each reel slightly after that particular reel stops. I mean for the second reel the fourth and fifth reels are still spinning when the animation for the second reel is played. As a consequence, there's a huge delay when you get the car on reel 4, because you are ready to spin, but the animation is still playing, and the spin button is not enabled as the stop spin buttons is shown, although the reels have already stopped. Now pressing the spin confuses the game, as the sw takes it as a spin and a stop spin and behaves accordingly. The same holds for Happily ever after, and I guess all games with reels 2-3-4 feature trigger with animation.

I can describe probably a bit more detailed what I meant. It's for all scatter&bonus symbols. The point is that those symbols are always animating, also in that case when the feature or bonus can't be awarded. I mean for the cars, they should only be animated one-by-one until the feature is possible. I mean if (NumOfRemainingReelsWithScatter>RequiredNumberOfAdditionalScatters). In the car case they should only animate on reel3 if there was a scater on reel2, and should only animate on reel4 if there was a scatter on the other two reels. It should never animate in case when you get a scatter but it's impossible to get the feature. The really confusing part is when you get a car on reel 4 only, but still it's animating or you get a scatter only on reel 5, and yet it's animating, you haven't won anything, but you can't spin. It makes impossible to get in a good rythm with the mouse clicks when playing the game.

Another suggestion, please make the scatters and the wilds a bit more easier identifiable. On some games I got scatters and wilds, and I only realized from the payout that I won something. It should be an exciting moment, hey, I got two scatters or two wilds on the first two reels, I might hit something big. On some games it's fine, but the wild on the Genie themed slot is a bit problematic imho.

And please fix the right-click bug, it's dangerous in real money play.
 
Thanks for the feedback gerilege. I sent it on to development earlier today. In our next version as well we will have more visible and exciting wilds and scatters.

The stop spin feature did not seem to be a big hit by reading the comments on it here so it will be dropped from the next version too.

Also going will be the right-click issue.

I can't overstate how helpful everyone's suggestions here have been.

The next version is not far off so we won't be able to do everything we want to do for that version, but there will be many more versions to come that will get to a lot of the other suggestions here.
 
It makes impossible to get in a good rythm with the mouse clicks when playing the game.
I got to play a few of these games and it is really irritating to have the scatter/bonus symbols animating when there is no hit and it takes away from the quick spin one likes to do just as gerilege said...one likes to get into a rhythm when one is spinning and it takes 2-3 extra clicks on the spin button to get it going again (each and every time after the previous spin).

This is due to the non winning animations that are just irritating...having the non winning animations (not the symbol) not animate would be a benefit to the casino cause many of us just like to pace ourselves and think of all those clicks we are wasting without spending a dime trying to get it going again...thats a lot of money lost on the casinos end ..:D
 
Yes, I was wondering where you would be in this discussion... Thanks for telling why.
vinylweatherman, you following this?

I am now.

The big danger here is changing the existing slots to make them better for players. This should be made clear with each new version that is released, so that players who have not seen this thread understand that the games are being changed for improvement, and not for any underhand purposes.

US being excluded. Having a TINY flag with a line through it is not really good enough, UNLESS the registration process is designed to block US players BEFORE they deposit real money, win, and then have their winnings confiscated because they didn't see a tiny flag with a line through it.

I am sure other countries are excluded, so it would be best to design a registration process that blocks registration from these countries from the outset, rather than having operators using such mis-registrations as cause to void winnings. Similarly, if several currencies are supported, have a means of preventing players from selecting a currency that their specific region is banned from using (this is usually the UK Pound that suffers exclusion).

Before parting with money, players need to know how they can be paid, so if an option used for deposits is NOT an option for withdrawals, say so!

As for the slots, 2 - 10 free spins and no multipliers or wilds would certainly have me rushing to watch my grass grow:D

Thought should also be given as to the promotions that will be offered to players, the software should be able to handle them. If wagering tournaments are going to be offered, the software should make it easy for a live scoreboard to be generated.

For players - transaction and gaming history. Option to download the numbers as comma separated text at least. Some players like to examine their overall play, put it into spreadsheets etc. With other softwares, this is such a PAIN!!
Reports of past overall game payouts, preferrably independently audited.

For the casino - work towards becoming Casinomeister Accredited.

Casino rep - Participating in the forum - already done, top marks:D
 
US being excluded. Having a TINY flag with a line through it is not really good enough
Yes, I am from the good ole USA and I did register a "play" account. Knowing better, I will not register a real account until they do away with the "NO USA" symbol. Hopefully they will allow us to play in fun mode until this changes down the road...
 
I cant register one account. Download the casino, install it but cant connect to server, and then close.

Any idea what happen?

thanks all
 
USA! USA! USA!

Let's go USA!

I sure hate it when I can't play a game everyone is talking about! :mad:

Hi Everyone ;)

I second this!! Dang! Everytime I see great games, BANG - No USA :mad:

Come On Casinos.. we don't bite. Much :D

And.. Yes, I am in Colorado, so we are legit for gambling.
 
I can describe probably a bit more detailed what I meant. It's for all scatter&bonus symbols. The point is that those symbols are always animating, also in that case when the feature or bonus can't be awarded. I mean for the cars, they should only be animated one-by-one until the feature is possible. I mean if (NumOfRemainingReelsWithScatter>RequiredNumberOfAdditionalScatters). In the car case they should only animate on reel3 if there was a scater on reel2, and should only animate on reel4 if there was a scatter on the other two reels. It should never animate in case when you get a scatter but it's impossible to get the feature. The really confusing part is when you get a car on reel 4 only, but still it's animating or you get a scatter only on reel 5, and yet it's animating, you haven't won anything, but you can't spin. It makes impossible to get in a good rythm with the mouse clicks when playing the game.

Another suggestion, please make the scatters and the wilds a bit more easier identifiable. On some games I got scatters and wilds, and I only realized from the payout that I won something. It should be an exciting moment, hey, I got two scatters or two wilds on the first two reels, I might hit something big. On some games it's fine, but the wild on the Genie themed slot is a bit problematic imho.

And please fix the right-click bug, it's dangerous in real money play.

Before I have development start to make changes on this, I wanted to confirm it with everyone that its ok that we have symbols animate where either a win has occurred or where a win is possible as gerilege describes above.

We have some symbols that we call pre-animations where there is a tiny bit of gesturing, would you like to see these only occur where there is a chance of a win still gerilege?

There was another post where slycin mentioned that they would prefer that animations only occurred with an actual win.

If anyone has some more thoughts on this, that would be great.
 
Before I have development start to make changes on this, I wanted to confirm it with everyone that its ok that we have symbols animate where either a win has occurred or where a win is possible as gerilege describes above.

We have some symbols that we call pre-animations where there is a tiny bit of gesturing, would you like to see these only occur where there is a chance of a win still gerilege?

There was another post where slycin mentioned that they would prefer that animations only occurred with an actual win.

If anyone has some more thoughts on this, that would be great.

Case1:Win on a payline(non-scatter)
I prefer only animations if there was an actual win involved with these symbols. Do not animate wild unless it substituted in a win-line.

Case2: Scatters triggering feature or still paying something.
For scatters I only want them animated if they triggered a feature or a win. With a win I think of the situation when hitting less scatters than
required for the feature, but where they still does pay. (typical 2 scatters, where 3 is need for the feature).

Case3: Scatter animation when still spinning
This is when you hit some scatters and still have a chance to hit the feature due to scatters on reels to come. Normally a sound is played or reels
move slower to increase excitement. I like this idea. However if they did not trigger feature or pay anything there should be no animation or anything
after last reel has stopped.


But more generally I do like the mechanic where scatters only appear on reel 2,3,4 and you need 3 scatters to start the feature. There is too many slots with this mechanic. Scatters on all 5 reels is the more common and prefered.
 
Before I have development start to make changes on this, I wanted to confirm it with everyone that its ok that we have symbols animate where either a win has occurred or where a win is possible as gerilege describes above.

We have some symbols that we call pre-animations where there is a tiny bit of gesturing, would you like to see these only occur where there is a chance of a win still gerilege?

There was another post where slycin mentioned that they would prefer that animations only occurred with an actual win.

If anyone has some more thoughts on this, that would be great.

Hi Wizardgaming, dont you see my post? :confused::eek: I cant register an account? I can download, but when start to connect the server, appear one error: and the casino close.
 
Hi Wizardgaming, dont you see my post? :confused::eek: I cant register an account? I can download, but when start to connect the server, appear one error: and the casino close.

You're not the only one with this problem. It doesn't seem to be very common though. Did you check your firewall settings?

There's supposed to be an update next week sometime, maybe you should try again after the update if your firewall settings aren't causing the problem.

Just a thought.
 

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