Dot Arena
Supplier： Dot Arena
Challenges The road to perfection is often full of thorns. In 2014, the domestic mobile game market was already crowded with competitors. Lily and her companions faced a common challenge of all start-ups: How to make headway within limited time and s
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Challenges
The road to perfection is often full of thorns. In 2014, the domestic mobile game market was already crowded with competitors. Lily and her companions faced a common challenge of all start-ups: How to make headway within limited time and space? How to gain resources and platform support on par with industry tycoons and avoid falling into obscurity because of limited external conditions?
As the number of registered players soared and DAU broke over 2 million mobile games, Dot Arena introduced innovative rich gameplay and direct changes. These were broken down into more complex back-end data structures, more frequent network interactions and greater back-end operations. All of these required greater performance and stability in server providers, as only top-quality experience can attract and retain player base.
In addition, mobile game market experiences rapid changes. Innovative games are easily copied and overtaken by tycoons, therefore, back-end scalability must offer dynamic scalability to ensure maximum import of user data, establish a leading-edge dominance and use flexible infrastructure support to keep initiative in the ever-changing market. Many inexperienced entrepreneurs tend to ignore this - when their games boom, they discover that back-end resource extension is lagging behind and they are unable to solve many technical infrastructure problems, which results in decreased player experience thus player base drainage. By that time, it's already too late to recover.
Solutions
From the very beginning, Lily and her partners showed clear thoughts, firmly played their core competitiveness, and left professional tasks in the hands of professional teams. In order to provide the best professional industry resource structure for game publishing, they've selected Longtu Game and as for back-end support, they've selected UCloud, a provider with the greatest reputation in the game industry.
From their official debut on AppStore and Android platforms, Dot Arena has always been listed amongst the best-sellers. Within just one month, total registration exceeded 5 million. All of this time, UCloud cloud platform provided stable support and timely services.
Dot Arena's innovative gameplay offers more complex player operations and game logic, for which cloud host UHost provides an efficient and stable operational services. As daily DAU surge causes soaring traffic, flexible configuration upgrade and online bandwidth expansion increased the load capacity of a single server. As vertical upgrade alone is not enough, Dot Arena needed to maintain the speed of over 100 servers every week to access more players. More servers are required on a daily basis, what poses an impossible challenge for previous traditional IT infrastructure. UCloud cloud host uses the self-definition mirror function to provide excellent configuration environment in advance. When the needs arise, new servers can be created and added within minutes. You no longer have to worry about a surplus infrastructure or delayed import of player database.
Dot Arena hero training and equipment enchantment systems are diverse, therefore back-end database systems are also becoming more complex and more important. To achieve stable performance and better data security, Dot Arena implemented separation of game application and database. Player database is deployed on UCloud UDB cloud database service, which quickly implemented database master-slave and read and write separation and that guaranteed high IO performance, network security and data availability. Meanwhile, UDB provides perfect mechanism for data backup - each backup has multiple redundant copies, which ensured Lily about player data security and completeness. Dot Arena experiences an influx of players, which resulted in fast growth of the daily log. For this reason, UCloud offered their professional advice by adjusting parameters to avoid the log overgrowth and negative impact on the UDB service.
In addition to flexible infrastructure support, Dot Arena's high quality operations also required flexible and unobstructed technical support services. UCloud devoted its development and cloud maintenance teams to provide Dot Arena with personalized technical support service, an incredible availability of 24/7 and with a 90-seconds fast response time. UCloud has always provided timely communication and solutions for technical questions raised by Lily and Longtu Game publisher. UCloud support team constantly monitors player forums for any anomalies and will directly contact players to collect and solve any problems and in conclusion, ensuring a smooth game operations. UCloud treats Dot Arena as if it were their own integral operation and maintenance departments. Moreover, many UCloud employees have become big fans of Dot Arena themselves.
Afterword
Boasting top AppStore revenue, Dot Arena claims 10 million registered, 3 million DAU, and over 100 million of monthly flow, becoming a legend among mobile games.
Many game critics pay attention to Dot Arena's success, but UCloud is more concerned about Lily's dream. The success of Dot Arena lies not only in the game itself, but acts as evidence of the current cloud age. As long as entrepreneurial teams have dreams and focus on product innovations, quality, and the ultimate user experience, they may become a new legend. Behind them will always be UCloud's support and solutions.
As Dot Arena's "legend" continues, DAU soars, monthly flow records are refreshed, UCloud will continue to provide stable services, guarantee high quality gaming experience, and cooperate with the Dot Arena team to provide Dot Arena players with continuous battle opportunities.
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