Inside Pragmatic Play: Innovation, Live Casino & What's Next
Pragmatic Play offers a broad catalogue of slots, Live Casino games and game shows. Gates of Olympus Roulette brings the provider’s recognizable slot setting into a Live Casino production, presented in a polished studio environment.
Anastasios Ioannidis, Head of Affiliate Marketing at ARRISE, discussed how the game was developed, the crossover between its formats and what the provider may explore in the future.
Q. How did the idea take shape for Gates of Olympus Roulette, which brings a popular slot into a live casino setting?
Gates of Olympus Roulette is a notable release, though Pragmatic Play has previously brought a familiar slot identity into another format. Sweet Bonanza CandyLand introduced the well-known Sweet Bonanza slot to Live Casino audiences as a wheel-based game show.
The new title similarly connects slots with Live Casino. It reimagines another established provider brand as a live roulette game, complete with a distinctive presentation.
Ioannidis said moving Gates of Olympus into a new format was a natural fit: the brand’s recognition and fantasy setting lent themselves to an immersive live game show.
Players step into Zeus’ realm, where the familiar roulette format features multipliers and the bonus round from the original Gates of Olympus slot. The game’s stated top win is 10,000x.
Q. What posed the biggest difficulty in reworking Gates of Olympus as a live roulette game?
Ioannidis said quality is a key priority for Pragmatic Play’s Live Casino games, particularly productions built around a high-impact game show.
The team also needed to preserve the character of the globally recognized Gates of Olympus brand while combining details that would work in both a slot and a roulette game.
Q. Which parts of the original slot were essential to carry into the live game?
Zeus stays at the heart of the setting. A defining character in the original, the King of the Gods returns as a prominent figure, with a more muscular build, bright white hair and his signature thunderbolts.
The live version also incorporates visual details from the slot, including flashes of lightning and storm-like scene transitions.
The bonus round follows the original’s design, with Zeus presiding over a large grid. If a Super Booster is active when it triggers, it can add up to an additional 10x to wins, bringing the bonus game’s stated maximum potential to 10,000x.
Q. How does Gates of Olympus Roulette compare with Pragmatic Play’s other live roulette titles? Does it extend the classic table format or offer something different?
It seeks to do both. The game builds on multiplier-focused titles such as Fortune Roulette and Mega Roulette 3000, while adding another title to Pragmatic Play’s game-show range and a new setting for its multipliers.
The familiar live roulette format remains, with Lucky Numbers and a Super Booster added. A slot-inspired bonus round introduces another mechanic that distinguishes the game from a standard table.
Q. What would you point to as the main reason for a newcomer to try Gates of Olympus Roulette?
Ioannidis pointed to the roulette format and potential top wins, as well as the studio setting and production quality.
The design aims to bring players into the game’s world through detailed touches, from a marble-clad roulette wheel to a cinematic transition into the bonus round.
The hosts’ Grecian-inspired outfits complement the temple-themed studio and add to the game show’s visual identity.
Q. For someone new to the game, how does its learning curve compare with traditional roulette?
The game is designed for players with varying experience, from those familiar with roulette to those more accustomed to slots. Its blend of formats may appeal to both groups.
The foundation is classic European roulette, with standard inside and outside bets offered on a familiar wheel and betting layout.
The added multipliers use a simple structure. As the wheel spins, up to seven Lucky Numbers may be chosen at random, each carrying a multiplier of up to 250x, along with one Bonus Number. A winning straight-up bet on a Lucky Number pays its multiplier; landing on the Bonus Number launches the separate slot bonus.
A Super Booster can also add a further multiplier of up to 10x to any selected number.
The Gates of Olympus pay-anywhere bonus features a 6×5 slot grid and begins with 15 free spins. A prize is awarded when at least eight matching symbols land anywhere on the reels.
Winning symbol combinations may trigger a tumble, and multipliers of up to 500x can appear at random during a spin or tumble. Additional Scatter symbols can award more free spins.
Q. Might Pragmatic Play develop more hybrid games in future, perhaps drawing on other popular titles?
Ioannidis cited the enduring success of Sweet Bonanza CandyLand as a sign of interest in games that combine different formats.
Gates of Olympus is one of several successful Pragmatic Play franchises, he said, and the provider continues to explore new ways to present established brands. He suggested readers keep an eye out for future releases.
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