If you swung into the action with Apes of Doom, released on 21 October, get ready to be convulsed with laughter in the next great title from Stakelogic this month, featuring new expanding reels and PopWins, an increasingly popular function developed by AvatarUX.
The company’s latest game for the ongoing month is called Joker Drop, and it combines superb graphics as well as original sound effects with the player-favorite PopWins mechanic, spreading across the industry like wildfire!
The release of Joker Drop follows Stakelogic’s strategic move to enter into a licensing agreement with AvatarUX, content partner of Yggdrasil and contributor to the YG Masters program. Under the terms of the arrangement, the Eindhoven-based supplier will get exclusive rights to the popular PopWins mechanic for a period of 6 months.
As a result of the company’s latest deal, Stakelogic will incorporate the innovative PopWins technology into its own games. Two titles have already been confirmed, named Mystery Drop and the recently revealed, Joker Drop.
Although it is played out in a standardized 5 reels, 4 rows setup, giving away a conventional retro style with fruit symbols, playing card values and lucky sevens, Joker Drop offers a lot more excitement after landing first pay way wins, unveiling what this game is really capable of doing for the player!
Once you hit a win in this game, the mechanics start to get really interesting. First off, the PopWins function kicks in and makes the reels expand, providing a free respin along the way. However, it continues to expand in this way until the player has reached a massive seven symbols in height each!
As a result, bigger reels bring more ways to win, reaching an incredible 16,807 pay ways or the game’s maximum.
If players reach the optimal reel matrix size, consisting of 5 reels and 7 rows, they unlock the Gamble Drop feature. During this “take it or leave it” type of gameplay, users are awarded an initial number of free spins that they can either accept or gamble for the chance to win even more.
In case they’re happy with their total, the free spins round will begin, carrying a progressive multiplier that increases by +1 for every consecutive win.
As expected, the studio’s latest slot for October will also give players an opportunity to place an additional wager and activate the Super Stake feature. This function gives them extra scatter symbols during complimentary rounds.
Adding three of these images will add a further three games to the current total, including more re-triggers. In certain jurisdictions, customers can even opt to purchase the feature with 5 free spins by using the Buy a Bonus option.
Among other attractive highlights in this game, players can also earn the opportunity to fill special coin and diamond meters by landing random symbols. With five symbols required to fill each meter, the coin meter can add random, instant-win cash prizes to the reels.
“We pride ourselves in offering our players & operator partners cutting-edge products and innovative features such as Super Stake™ and with the PopWins™ mechanic, we can further enhance our offering,” commented Olga Bajela about the studio’s latest product, CCO at Stakelogic.
She is convinced that the power of Joker Drop to combine two great mechanics like PopWins and SuperStake will make it a chart-topper in the upcoming weeks.
Managing director at AvatarUX, Marcus Honney, added that the growing PopWins collection is performing extremely well on the market, and that giving the trademark rights to Stakelogic will make an even bigger hit with operators across the industry.
Source:
“Stakelogic Launches Joker Drop™ With Exclusively Licensed PopWins™ Mechanic”, stakelogic.com, October 26th, 2021.