Case study · K40 Online Kalooki
A live card game, right to the penny, built in three days
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The result
How it changed the business
K40 Online Kalooki lets up to four people play UK Kalooki together, live, on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and it can be saved to the home screen like an app. It was built for a client, in three days. It has passed a security review, runs on its own server and is backed up every night. It is here because a card game has the same hard parts as plenty of business software: the rules have to be fair, the balances have to be right to the penny, and the owner has to be able to see exactly what happened and when.
What this means for your business
The hard parts of a system like this are not the screens. They are being fair, keeping the numbers right and showing the owner exactly what happened. A booking system, a loyalty scheme or a members' area needs the same three things at a smaller scale, and they are far cheaper to design in at the start than to bolt on after something has gone wrong.
What the owner gets
- Play live with friends
- Balances right to the penny
- Full owner controls
- Saves to the home screen
- Easy to read and use
The build
What it does for the owner
- Every deal, rule, score and turn timer is handled centrally, not on the player's own phone, so nobody can cheat by tampering with their screen
- Credits handled as carefully as money: every movement is recorded and can never be edited, a stake is held before the game starts, and no game can pay out twice
- A player whose connection drops goes straight back to the same point in the game, with spare time so a short drop does not cost them the hand
- Full owner controls: players, credits, payouts and games, warnings about suspicious play, undoing a payout, a move-by-move replay of every hand, and every balance checked to the penny
- Built for older players: large type, a choice of three looks, adjustable text size, a four-colour deck, keyboard shortcuts, a buzz when it is your turn and a setting to calm the animations
- Works on a phone (sideways too), a tablet and a computer, and there is a demo version you can try straight away
Services
The services behind it
The same work is on offer for your business, one service at a time.
- Booking and reminder softwareFewer no-shows and a diary that runs itselfFewer no-shows, repeat work that comes back on its own, and the hours you spend chasing the diary handed back.See the service
- Website creationA website that turns searches into phone callsTurns the people already searching for what you do into phone calls and enquiries, rather than losing them to a slow, unclear site.See the service
- Website securityYour site stays up, and stays yoursYour site stays online and taking enquiries, and a bad day means restoring a backup rather than rebuilding.See the service
- Management and maintenanceSomeone looks after it, and answers the phoneAn optional extra on top of the running costs: your site kept current, updated and backed up, with a local number to ring.See the service
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