An opening salvo in online slots revolution?
In various forms of marketing, entertainment and writing in which hyperbole is all too often abused does the meaning of the word “revolutionary” become warped through overuse. On the other hand, once in a while, there's an addition to online slots like Microgaming's My Slot.
Not much to wax eloquent about in terms of gameplay, My Slot an incredibly straightforward 9-payliner with requisite SCATTERs and WILDs. The kick, as the name indicates, comes in the development that the My Slot interface is capable of personalization. Upload your own pictures into the program, crop at will and you’re off and spinning; even the paytables update with your new pictures.
And have no fear of the difficulty factor, all you barely computer-literate players: You will not believe how easy it is to create this stuff; the Os Man can barely handle Microsoft Word and still put together decent games in less than 10 minutes and sharp-looking numbers in fifteen. (Seriously, use the cropping tools; they're totally simple and really make a difference.) Check out the special LiveCasinoDirect.com-themed machine the Os Man put together: It's depicted at left.
You can even upload your own music, but choose at least an entire album or techno megamix worth of songs; anything gets pretty repetitive pretty quickly.
In the end, if you can’t stand the design of My Slot, it’s your own fault. Sorry the Os Man can’t do anything about guaranteeing winnings...
Meanwhile, just imagine the future of this sort of interface, even if only more multiple payline games are considered ... or how about choose your own number of paylines? And just imagine right around, say, late 2010/early 2011 when we’re seeing a video round with your own photos. Or YouTube videos. Whoa. LCD rating: 8/10, but a solid 11/10 for vision.