Nektan Lands Rocksalt Content Partnership

Another alliance that could steer iGaming industry's creative side to new frontiers has been formed, with the announcement that games designer, Rocksalt Interactive, became the official in-house producer and partner of Nektan, fast-growing international platform and service provider.

The multi-year contract has been signed with the idea of diversifying the provider's game offering in mind.

Rocksalt's team will be relying on their wealth of knowledge and long-standing expertise in order to design gaming titles as per Nektan's HTML5 directives. For distribution of newly-created content to operators and clients, they will exist utilize E-Lite and Evolve platforms.

Kicking It Off With Buccaneers

According to details of this collaboration agreement...

...Nektan will be delivering a games engine for the production of content whereas Rocksalt will be maintaining front-end functionality, illustrations, features and assets of new titles.

Other specifics of this arrangement state that there will be at least twelve games produced this way, with all of them set to be distributed to Nektan's commercial operators and white-label casinos.

We're already familiar with what will be this tandem's first fruit of labor: Plucky Pirates: Devil's Triangle will be Rocksalt's maiden title to go live. The game whose theme are sea-corsairs of old promises “highly-engaging gameplay” and “state-of-the-art graphics.”

An Exciting Opportunity

Jane Ryan, Nektan's Chief Commercial Officer of B2B, commented:

“Rocksalt Interactive is a highly-regarded global games designer. We are thrilled to be working alongside a great team that can boost the diversity of games that we offer. The company develops a number of popular global free-to-play games, and we are sure that its team of quality designers will produce new and exciting content that will appeal to a wide audience.”

Rocksalt's CEO and Director, Utkarsh Veer, is enthralled because of this “exciting opportunity for the company.” He looks forward to producing fresh and entertaining games together with Nektan...

...games that will “incorporate our expertise in games design and Nektan’s knowledge of player preferences and the casino market as a whole. We look forward developing the partnership while delivering quality games to Nektan’s growing network of casino sites.”

A Success Well-Earned

Having appointed Lucy Buckley as their new CEO in October, Nektan has been on a steady upward trajectory in regards to accomplished strategic deals.

In early December, the brand entered into a content partnership with Tokyo's independent games company, Rising Entertainment, making their games such as Rank Up Dragon available to their expanding network of operators.

In another statement-making move, the Gibraltar-based experts have integrated NetEnt's Live Casino suite on their Evolve platform.

Speaking of the deal, Christine Lewis of NetEnt, stated:

“Evolve has global reach and we are happy to deliver our range of Live Casino games to Nektan’s network of white label casinos.”

Source:

“Nektan Enhances In-House Games Offering With Rocksalt Partnership”, nektan.com, January 28, 2019.