Game Dev & Creative Support for Ilyon

Highlights

Ilyon, a leading mobile game development company, needed additional resources to support key areas such as quality assurance, game development, illustration, and animation.

Working with Academy SMART, Ilyon successfully enhanced their game development pipeline, ensuring timely releases and visually compelling content.

The collaboration allowed Ilyon to maintain high standards of creativity and quality while accelerating development cycles and supporting their mobile game portfolio.

Ilyon is a mobile game development company known for creating engaging, high-quality games. Their portfolio includes popular casual games enjoyed by millions of users worldwide. With a focus on delivering exceptional gameplay experiences, Ilyon continuously innovates and expands their game offerings to meet market demands.

Employees: 200+

Industry: Gaming

Sector: Mobile Game Development

Primary Objectives

Accelerate Game Development:

Ilyon sought to speed up their game development cycles without compromising on quality. This required integrating external resources into their team to ensure timely updates, new features, and continued high standards of gameplay.
Maintain High Creative Standards:

To keep up with the competitive mobile gaming market, Ilyon needed consistent, high-quality creative assets, including character designs, animations, and user interfaces. These assets were essential for maintaining the visual appeal of their games.
Ensure Rigorous Quality Assurance:

As part of their commitment to delivering flawless user experiences, Ilyon aimed to implement thorough quality assurance processes. This included comprehensive testing, bug identification, and regression testing to ensure all game releases met their high standards.

Challenge

Ilyon’s key challenge was to integrate external talent seamlessly into their existing teams while maintaining the high standards they are known for. The external resources were required to work across multiple areas, including:

Quality Assurance:

Ensuring all game releases met rigorous quality standards through comprehensive testing, bug identification, and regression testing, while maintaining release schedules and preventing post-launch issues.

Game Development:

Supporting the rapid development of new game features and optimizing performance across mobile platforms, ensuring smooth gameplay and scalability for both iOS and Android devices.

Illustration and Animation:

Creating high-quality, visually consistent assets, including character designs and dynamic animations, that aligned with Ilyon’s art style and enhanced the overall player experience.

Cross-Department Collaboration:

Facilitating seamless integration of external resources into Ilyon’s existing teams, ensuring smooth communication between departments and maintaining cohesive project management throughout the development process.

How Academy SMART Helped

Academy SMART approached the challenge by providing highly skilled professionals across multiple disciplines to support Ilyon’s ongoing development projects.

Quality Assurance (QA):

Actions Taken: Our QA engineers rigorously tested each game release, identifying bugs and conducting regression testing to ensure a flawless user experience. Impact: The QA team ensured that all game releases met Ilyon’s high standards for quality, preventing any major issues from affecting players post-launch.

Game Development:

Actions Taken: Our game developers collaborated closely with Ilyon’s in-house team, contributing to coding, feature implementation, and performance optimization. They worked on developing game logic and enhancing performance across mobile platforms. Impact: This collaborative effort accelerated the development process, enabling timely releases of new features and updates.

Illustration and Animation:

Actions Taken: Academy SMART provided illustrators and After Effects animators to create visually compelling character designs, backgrounds, and animations for cinematics and user interfaces. The team worked closely with Ilyon’s developers to ensure that the visual elements aligned with the game’s design and enhanced the overall player experience. Impact: These creative assets helped maintain Ilyon’s high standards of visual appeal, resulting in engaging and immersive gameplay experiences.

Ongoing Support:

Actions Taken: Academy SMART continues to provide ongoing support to Ilyon, ensuring that their evolving needs are met with timely, high-quality solutions. Impact: The partnership has enabled Ilyon to remain competitive in the fast-paced mobile gaming industry by continuously delivering engaging and innovative games.

Business Impact

Working with Academy SMART, Ilyon has been able to:

Accelerate Game Development Cycles:

The integration of external resources allowed Ilyon to speed up their development cycles without compromising quality. This resulted in timely releases of updates and new features, keeping players engaged and satisfied.
Enhance Visual Appeal:

The creative support provided by illustrators and animators resulted in visually stunning games that attracted new players and retained existing ones. The dynamic animations and high-quality artwork contributed to an immersive gameplay experience.
Improve Quality Assurance Processes:

With the support of dedicated QA engineers, Ilyon ensured that all games met rigorous quality standards. This proactive approach to quality assurance minimized post-launch issues and improved the overall user experience.
Maintain a Strong, Long-Term Partnership:

The successful collaboration with Academy SMART has enabled Ilyon to continue evolving and innovating. The partnership has provided the flexibility and expertise needed to meet future challenges and opportunities.

Summary

Technologies

Unity

C++

Services

Game Development

Game Design

DevOps

Quality Assurance

Team

Game Developer

DevOps

QAs

Game Designer

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Game Development and Creative Support for Ilyon