GET IN AND GET PLAYING
BitRaider's patented technology allows you to start playing with minimal download and continues to stream your game while you play.
wait no more
What Does BitRaider Do For Your Game?
Any game can be streamed
- Gamers are playing with less than 10% delivered
- Significantly increase user acquisition
Installation happens automatically
- No more orphaned downloads on the desktop
- Players are launched directly into the game
Patch day pain is removed
- Playing while patches stream
- Going direct to the most current update
Build vs. Buy?
- How hard can it be to create a streaming, self-installing, stress-tested game deployment technology that patches on the fly and keeps optimal performance of the game as its first priority? Kinda hard, actually. Fortunately, we've already done it.
The BitRaider Team
Royal O'Brien
Founder / CEO
Royal has founded multiple companies from software development to service solutions. He holds multiple patents in video, VOIP and digital distribution technologies. His experience and leadership has successfully commercialized multiple products in the marketplace from theory to final release.
Royal's expertise in file structures, kernel driver technology and network architecture as well as game engines provides him a unique and innovative approach to building BitRaider's next generation deployment solution.
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Scott Chapman
President, Sales and Business Development
Scott is a Seasoned Business Development Professional with diverse knowledge in a variety of verticals including games, eCommerce, and telecommunications. Scott possesses a strong background in B2B sales with emphasis on new technologies, and strategic sales.
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Jay Moore
Director of Marketing and Business Development
Jay thrives on building successful new ventures. An evangelist and brand manager in the games industry since 1994, he was an original partner in GarageGames (acquired by IAC) and hosted Indie Game Con `02-`05. He’s consulted on a wide variety of studios and spoken at a variety of conferences, including: GDC SF & Austin, e3, LA Games Conf., LOGIN and Casual Connect.
Jay's passion is to see a better consumer experience for all games distributed online. Creating strategic partnerships and alliances with industry solution providers.
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Tom Buscaglia
Corporate Counsel
Tom Buscaglia, The Game Attorney, is a principal in the law firm The Game Attorney PC and President of Dev-Biz, Inc., with offices in the Seattle, Washington, area. Tom has assisted game developers since 1991 with all aspects of business and legal matters. Tom Chairs the IGDA Board of Directors.
Tom wrote the chapter entitled “Effective Developer Agreements” for the book, The Secrets of the Game Business and has written numerous articles, including Game Developer Magazine and the Game Law series of articles. Tom is a perennial presenter at numerous conferences such as the Game Developer Conference and PAX where he speaks on the game industry business and legal matters.
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Tony Mason
Technology Advisor
As one of the principals in OSR, Tony works directly with customers, both pre-sales and post-sales, to ensure that we do everything that we can to facilitate their success. Tony participates in teaching, designing and developing software, consulting with both established and emerging companies. He is the author of two books and has written numerous articles within his field.
ca.linkedin.com/pub/tony-mason/1/680/bbWhat Does BitRaider Do For Your Game?
Streaming While You Play
BitRaider's technology profiles your game to determine the essential amount of content a player needs to get started. That amount is based on the consumption time of play for your particular game.
Our technology breaks up large files into objects that relate to the actual game assets needed to load so that we can optimally stream the game ahead of what you're playing.
BitRaider dynamically predicts at a rate of about 20x a second where a player will be playing and streams ahead those game assets the player will need. Invisible to the game, we transfer ahead of all I/O requests and fulfills them off the drive or, if needed, directly off the cloud.
Installs Your Game on the Fly
With BitRaider, no separate installation process is required. We reduce the pre-install questions to simply asking where the player wants to install the game and, if needed, to accepting any EULA.
Our installation process removes the complexity of PC game installation.
All game dependencies are installed automatically after the initial starting portion of the game is downloaded.
We handle all dependencies, DirectX (game version specific), runtime libraries, fraud protection and DRM. And, we are a licensed nVIDIA partner so we can install PhysX if needed.
There is a 1-to-1 ratio of space needed on the drive and the actual game footprint created.
Patches While You Play
We automatically bring players the latest version of the game at install.
And with our Patch-On-The-Fly technology, players stay current to your game without losing precious play time.
We go from any version to the latest version and only transfer the delta that makes them completely current, eliminating the usual sequential patching to get to the latest release.
Improve retention by not having large waits for patching, and on F2P, allow for more playing and subsequent buying of in-game items.
We provide you with the patching tools so you retain complete operational independence.
Additional Advantages
Your Game Play is Always the Top Priority
BitRaider makes sure your game has top performance priority while it streams data. And, to further keep your game performing optimally, we constantly shape the bandwidth and disc I/O.
Data Integrity and Fault Tolerance
It is engineered to ensure that only the right data is delivered making it difficult to modify your intended player experience. Our network stack is engineered to deal with the realities of unreliable networks and self-corrects to find fastest route as well as ensure data integrity.
Full UI tools and launcher module with scripting language support to build best-in-class user experience.
Your Network, Your Controls
We work on any http 1.1 compliant CDN so you can chose the CDN and deploy however it best suits your needs. You keep control of everything.
Buy vs. Build?
What engineer can resist a really hard problem to solve?
Engineering a streaming approach for any game engine is possible, but it takes a significant amount of high-value network and low-level engine engineering talent to succeed at creating, adapting and maintaining.
History shows that this is an extra hard problem to solve. Many developers have spent between 12 and 15 man years attempting to build a solution. Guild Wars I and World of War Craft have been the only notable games to have produced a successful outcome. And, those solutions were game specific.
Dozens of companies have spent hundreds of millions and filed more than 30 patents attempting to bring a solution to market.
Maintenance of a streaming solution also takes valuable resources, staying current with changing network architectures and game engine changes are necessary to be a reliable part of a games deployment strategy.
So, you can risk spending valuable time and resources to produce a one-off solution that you hope doesn't infringe on anyone's patents or you can go with a proven solution.
BitRaider technology will work on any game without integration. It allows for use anywhere along the distribution value chain. Publishers and distributors, without direct access to the source code or builds, can reliably deliver a better player experience.
Our patented technology -- and proof of effectiveness in the marketplace -- means you can take advantage of BitRaider's well-maintained technology and tap into a team that specializes in supporting publishers and distributors while maintaining this highly tuned solution.
