The creators of RoboWorld aim to capture the imaginations of billions of players as they bring their games to the global market. With exciting gameplay, a new reality experience with cutting-edge AR technology, ownership of in-game items via NFTs, and a recommendation system-based Marketplace, the agile startup is on the cusp of something big.

Challenge: Managing growth and scale with a cost-effective solution

The RoboWorld team was looking to offer an unparalleled gaming experience to global gamers. The augmented reality-backed immersive gameplay had to be seamless and scalable. In preparation for rapid growth and agility, the team also needed a cost-effective cloud solution that was easy to set up and easy to monitor.

“Our vision for the future of blockchain gaming is to create a reality-based, decentralized assets strategy card game that delivers an unparalleled gaming experience. With the help of augmented reality and a global player base, we aim to build a unique universe where players can battle opponents and interact with audiences, creating a dynamic advertising platform that can promote brands and distribute news in a real environment surrounding the game,” says Louis Le, CTO, RoboWorld

Solution: Unlocking a world of options with GKE to build agility & responsiveness

In consultation with the Cloud Kinetics’ team of cloud experts, the team evaluated options. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) emerged as the frontrunner with its flexible pricing model and competitive offering. The sustained-use and committed-use discounts that GCP offered would help them see reduced costs over time, a compelling choice for an early-stage startup, according to the game’s creators.

What’s more, the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) allowed for a seamless move from on-premise to the cloud and was also easy to set up. GKE also promised to reduce the requirement for ongoing manual maintenance of the master cluster and scaling of nodes. All in all, this would make for a more efficient and convenient user experience and help them deliver on their vision.

We partnered with Cloud Kinetics to help us onboard and optimize our usage of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With Cloud Kinetics’ expertise, we were able to navigate the complex GCP environment and quickly get up to speed with the latest best practices. Louis Le, CTO, RoboWorld

Outcome: Accelerated time to market and boost to player engagement

With a global audience for the game, the team anticipated the need for efficiently handling spikes and troughs in usage. Using GKE helped enable:

• Stability and reliability
• High availability across multiple zones
• Ability to handle troughs and spikes in player usage
• Auto-scaling when needed
• Tools for easy monitoring

Cloud Kinetics has been working closely with the RoboWorld team to tap the full benefits of Google Cloud, as they revolutionize the gaming industry and build a shared experience that blurs the lines between reality and gaming.

On the experience so far, the CTO of team RoboWorld says, “We partnered with Cloud Kinetics to help us onboard and optimize our usage of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) through a grant program. With Cloud Kinetics’ expertise, we were able to navigate the complex GCP environment and quickly get up to speed with the latest best practices.”

“The Cloud Kinetics team helped us develop a customized solution that met our specific needs and ensured we were able to take full advantage of the GCP grant. Their guidance and support throughout the process were invaluable, allowing us to optimize our usage of GCP and accelerate our time to market. Overall, Cloud Kinetics was an instrumental partner in our successful GCP implementation and optimization.” Louis Le added.

Partnering for future growth and next-gen gaming

Google Cloud’s suite of products and services like Cloud Spanner will play a key role in helping the company scale up and optimize its gaming platform. For instance, Cloud Spanner’s scalable, fully managed relational database service, will help keep the game running seamlessly and smoothly as the player base expands and newer features get added to the gaming experience. The team also plans to leverage Google Cloud’s AI and machine learning capabilities to bring an unprecedented degree of personalization for players, increasing engagement and enhancing the RoboWorld game experience.

They are also keen to explore Google Cloud’s Internet of Things (IoT) services to help capture and analyze data from connected devices.

A spate of exciting events is planned in the lead-up to the official launch of RoboWorld. This includes a Pre-Alpha test for their communities, a Public boxes sale with support from ImmutableX in March, and the official game launch later in the year. The right cloud environment and cloud operations support will help strengthen the company as they gear up for these.

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Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform. It enables the operation of a flexible web server framework for cloud applications. It also automates many manual processes involved in deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications.

Kubernetes allows organizations to orchestrate containers. Either you can set up core on-prem Kubernetes for your workloads, or you can use the managed Kubernetes engines from major cloud vendors. You can also deploy your workloads on a hybrid Kubernetes model by extending on-prem to cloud and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments.

Professional Kubernetes Services

Kubernetes drives the container orchestration and management of micro-services. Cloud Kinetics helps enterprises to modernize their legacy apps and build cloud-native and serverless applications by automating deployments using CI/CD and security configurations.

• Application Modernization
• Cloud-Native Solutions
• DevSecOps
• Cloud-Native and Microservices Applications

Professional Services Offerings

• Consult & Assess
• Architect & Design
• Implement & Migrate

Managed Services Offerings

• Maintenance & Support
• Platform Support
• Cluster Management
• Capacity Management
• Security & Monitoring

Customized Training

Cloud Kinetics Learning (CKL) offers lab activities for Kubernetes and contextualizes them for your organization’s environment. We recreate your environment and mirror your implementation as close as possible in the lab. CKL also offers customized tech training for your staff to appreciate Kubernetes insights. Customized or standard courses are delivered via virtual or on-prem or stand-alone lab activities.

Plug and Play Offerings

Most enterprises seek to leverage their public cloud capabilities. In this journey, they need to make several decisions. For example, they must decide whether a public or a private cloud is ideal for them. And which cloud services and technologies they should deploy. And how to extend their workloads from on-prem model to specific clouds or multiple clouds.

With Cloud Kinetics’ hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes solution, we help customers to adopt the right hybrid or multi-cloud strategy aligned with their business needs.

Why Kubernetes

It is an open-source solution that

• Allows to orchestrate containers.
• Makes it easy to manage application deployments and updates.
• Automates application deployments.
• Manages workloads on the fly by auto-scaling containerized applications.
• Make efficient use of resources needed to run enterprise applications.
• Brings in DevOps efficiency.
• Makes monitoring, health-check, and managing more straightforward.
• Helps mount and add storage to run stateful apps.
• Offers hybrid and multi-cloud flexibility.
• Self-heals your application with replica sets, auto-placement, auto-restart, auto replication, and autoscaling.

Why work with Cloud Kinetics

Cloud Kinetics is a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) offering Kubernetes support, consulting, professional services and training for organizations embarking on their Kubernetes journey. We will work with you to determine your key needs and help you with:

• Overall architectural objectives and approach
• Kubernetes setup, provisioning and planning
• Security requirements considerations
• Software delivery pipeline design
• Implementation process analysis & planning
• Supporting tooling review

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• Assessment & Strategy

Do not allow legacy applications to slow you down. Our App Modernization services help you to review your monolithic applications footprint and implement a strategic roadmap using accelerators, platforms and partners to modernize your app portfolio.

• Technology Modernization

We help you to evolve your legacy applications using modern frameworks and architectures. These drive improved technical value, harness cloud-based development and make your portfolio digital-ready.

• Architectural & Platform Modernization

Adopting a platform-driven approach to cloud migration is the key to get the most value from your cloud investments. Our team enables such adoption using Containerization, Kubernetes, Serverless and Event-based architectures.

• Purpose-Built Architecture

Our tailor-made approaches are directed to kick start the modernization journey to achieve cost-effective modernization. As the technology landscape is constantly evolving, it is important to take a phased approach to modernization to minimize business risk, drive revenue and integrate new capabilities.

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