//What we accomplished for our clients
API Development for Treasure Hunt Game
// Overview
About Our Client
With a tradition of more than 35 years in the construction and management of shopping centers, the customer is the largest urban regeneration project in Romania and the first entertainment center in central city of the country.
It aims to become the main tourist attraction of the city and the region. To this end, a 2-hectare space has been allocated for leisure, cinema halls 8, 20 restaurants and cafes, and plenty of shops to suit all tastes.
Client:
Coresi Shopping Resort
industry:
Retail & Commerce
Shopping Malls & Engagement
technologies:
MySQL, PHP Symfony framework CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, HTML5, Push Notifications, Guzzle HTTP Client, Java for Android, RESTful web services, SQLite / CoreData, Objective C, XML/ Storyboards
Business Need
To increase engagement among visitors in their shopping center, the client ordered an ingenious game app to prompt shoppers visit stores with a user-friendly and dynamic experience.
This in turn asked for a powerful API for the application to identify in real time all users connected to access points in the site and push bonus points for them to “hunt” in the 200 shops and entertainment locations on the mall.
Solution
To respond to the requirements, Ropardo developed several components of the solution:
- Mobile Application
- Web Application
- Live stream of phone location
- APIs to expose the functionalities to Mobile and Web apps
Using API Manager, Ropardo team developed the powerful API. The API Manager is a complete solution for designing, implementing and managing APIs. With a firm mastering of the API Publisher, our team provides a rich set of capabilities as follows:
Design
Plan and design a good RESTful API
Implement
Deploy and test as a prototyped API (fast integration with Front End Application Development process)
Manage
Publish and expose as a managed RESTful API
Treasure is the mobile application our team developed for the client. Using VR (Virtual Reality), players can find different “treasures” hidden inside the shopping mall, accumulating discount points or happy-hour offers.
For the purpose of easiness of use, our team also developed a web application that is used to administrate the mobile application and the content.
"21,000 shoppers had been hunting treasures in Coresi Mall every day long before people went after Pokemons."
Agile Development Process
Ropardo API-driven development process was run by our teams by using a combination of API service mocking and test automation to deliver powerful APIs.
Using API Management platform, ROPARDO delivered fast results, starting from Proposal of the API to Release.
Fast collaborative design of the API Specification and early deployment of the API Mock enabled:
- Frontend team members to deliver early results using REST API Mock and generated data
- Ability to provide early feedbacks to the back-end team
- Back-end team had chance to create Real API on iterations improving their performance and keeping the API Specification
Key Benefits
All these capabilities ensured a wide range of results :
