Gaming companies and communities are opting for Drupal because it allows them to build robust, scalable communities with key features like multimedia support, mobile responsiveness, e-commerce integration, and customizable content types that improve user experiences. Drupal provides decoupled experiences, gameplay customizations, and quick search capabilities that enhance engagement. Its scalability is proven to handle large traffic for sites like Zynga, which sees 100 million monthly visitors. Drupal meets the varied needs of gaming platforms in building and supporting communities that influence game success.

1. Why are Gaming
Companies and
Communities Opting for
Drupal?

2. Index
● Introduction
● Importance of community in gaming industry
● Why is gaming industry opting for Drupal?
● Conclusion

3. Introduction
The satisfaction of gaming community members can influence the success
of a game and it is no secret why highest selling games have the largest
communities.
Community support is important for both game development and
community building. The games mature at these platform.

4. Helps in:
● User Acquisition
Over 53% of US teenagers play online games with people they
know in their offline lives (Pew Research, 2015). Community
support allows integration of offline friend circles into online
communities.
Importance of Community in Gaming
Industry

5. ● User Retention
Discussions on new features, the problems they encounter at playing,
advice about gaming strategies via forums is where the retention starts
at.
The modern games provide direct in-game communication, which is not
restricted to a simple message exchange, but also involves further
service functionality.

6. ● Improves Quality
The infamous Tracer butt controversy from 2016.
Gaming giant Blizzard Entertainment chose to pull down posture of
Tracer after the community chose to put their outrage online.
Gaming communities are a place of intense interaction after all games
are about shared experiences, rendered with extraordinarily interaction
and ownership. All successful games have communities.

7. Why are Gaming Communities Opting
for Drupal?
● Decoupled Drupal for Intuitive Game Live UI Experiences
The more the realism your game offers to the gamer, the longer
they would want to play.
With the decoupled experience in Drupal, you can create an
interactive experience for the gamers by utilizing your site to
completely control the useful in-program applications.

8. ● Gameplay based customizations
Games allow players to perceive themselves in alternate ways in their
imagined worlds. Player identification – with Avatar and Character –
helps build the interest while also improving the gameplay experience
and is important to maintain the identity in the possible communities
as well.

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10. ● Scalability
Zynga – a leading developer of the world's most popular social games –
website is built on Drupal. It claims to have 100 million monthly unique
visitors, making it the largest online gaming destination on the web.
It is apt in handling sites that burst with humongous traffic, which means
your gaming website can perform spectacularly even on the busiest of the
days without breaking or bending.

12. ● Multimedia support
Multimedia support is not new to the gaming industry. To keep the
engagement high, you need to support multimedia features like
scorecards, videos, photos, audios among others.
The photo gallery module, media entity module, and easy to use
templates to customize appearance are just a few from the list.

13. ● Mobile Responsiveness
Video games have once again found themselves more widely played and
accepted, thanks to the increasing smartphone reach. But games are not just
about the squeezing to a different size thing. They need to offer the same
experience as in the native web application without taking away the intuitive
design. This can be sorted with the Hammer.js module in Drupal.

14. ● Adding complex categories and catalogs
Gaming communities are a lot different from what the gaming websites offer.
Since each game will have different sub-communities, it becomes a need to
build those categories with design and category apt to the theme.
CCK allows you to add custom fields to any of the content types using a web
interface.

16. ● Discussions, Reviews, and News
Therefore one of the primary community needs is for a easy content
creation with different content types. The more the types, higher the
engagement, more the users will interact. Blogs, events, FAQs, news
are all important.

18. ● Quick Search
Communities are a busy place with a lot of activities happening at the
same time. Content that might interest a user can get lost in the
myriad of content. In Drupal, Solr is used to get more accuracy within
less time.

19. ● E-commerce Solution
Integrating commerce with the website is an old practice and most
gaming companies leverage this opportunity to boost their sales. Klei –
an Independent game studio – chose Drupal to create a seamless
shopping experience for both mobile and desktop users.

21. Community platforms have become an easy measure to the success of
any game since they serve a combination of purposes varying from
technical to human factors.
Further community satisfaction measures need to be considered in order
to improve the product model and quality in future.

22. Drupal mostly serves the needs of the gaming industry, is should
be a no-brainer when opting for it.
Drop a mail at hello@opensenselabs.com to connect with us if you
are building your gaming website or community platform.

23. THANK YOU