Kurnik Gaming Platform (KGP) is a turn-key solution to providing multi-player, community-developing online games. The platform includes 40+ Java-based board, card and other games—from the classics of Chess and Checkers to the lesser known games of Durak and XiangQi—that can be played within a Web browser.
Mature, proven technology
The platform has been critical to the success of Kurnik Online Games which despite coming late to the online games party in 2001 has grown through word of mouth to become the top online gaming destination in Poland with 4,500,000+ registered users, 35,000+ simultaneous users in peak times, and well over 2,200,000 unique visitors per month (as of January 2007).
With the launch of its 15+ language versions in 2005, the site is now also attracting an increasing number of players from around the world.
Superior user experience
The Google-inspired simple, very clean design makes for a truly positive user experience.
Visitors to the gaming site need not have any technical expertise nor download any software prior to playing the games—all games are browser-based and cross-platform working in any Java-compatible browser on any operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac etc.).
The games loading times are short even on dial-up connections owing to their small size while the protocol compression in client-server communication greatly contributes towards a high responsiveness.
Essential-only functionality
Through years of observations the games functionality has been carefully chosen and limited to the bare essentials to avoid turning into bloatware. It includes:
- player rankings, simple ranking color codes
- contact lists, instant messaging, public chat
- player statistics, brief and extensive
- archiving played games for later move-by-move reviewing or downloading for offline analysis
- fully-automated online tournaments, official and private, with Swiss-style pairing
- user profiles with photos
- social-networking aspects through public contact lists, listing users by country, language etc.
- administrative privileges, chat filtering, gagging
- LAMP-based (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- cross-platform Java 1.x applet clients
- high-performance native games servers
- scalable server architecture
TCP/IPcommunication with protocol compression to reduce bandwidth use- firewall evasion through alternative ports (8080, 23 etc.)
- Unicode support, ease of translation into any language
For further information, please contact Marek Futrega at: futrega@gmail.com.
However, please note that pricing starts from 20,000 EUROs per year and the target audience for this offer are high traffic Web portal sites.
This offer has been temporarily suspended.
Last update: August 30, 2007