Stan's Assets from KAPPS

Please describe your company and your position there.

Nitro Games is a game production and publishing company. I'm a producer in this project and worked closely with Stan's Assets developers.

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS?

We hired Stan's Assets developers to assist with the engineering for this project. The engineers were fully integrated in the feature teams and worked as part of the bigger production team.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Stan's assets were able to provide us with talented individuals who matched the qualifications and level of seniority expected for this production.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

Stan's Assets developers were fully integrated in the main production teams across the development. They were a key part of the pre-production and were able to assist in developing the production pipelines for certain features of the game.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We worked with four developers from Stan's Assets, including one senior programmer, two game programmers and a senior server engineer.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The developers were an important part of the pre-production. They were professional and qualified and produced some key elements in the production.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The communication with Stan's Assets developers was clear and they were active in their communication with their team members. We used Jira and slack as our main communication and project management software.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The communication with both the developers as well as with Stan's Assets management was great. The developers showed initiative and true participation in the production.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

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Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the CEO of a video game development studio focused on providing high quality educational games for kids

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS?

Unity3D Game development staff augmentation

How did you select this agency and what were the deciding factors?

Stan’s Assets from KAPPS was already known in our studio for their high quality tools on the Unity Asset Store, which we were already using. After an interview with founder and then with the rest of the team, it was clear for us that they will be a great fit. Good communication, highly professional and proactive attitude and adequate rates.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

Unity3D game development, both supporting and improving projects already deployed and also engineering new products. They allocated 3-5 persons, from Unity developers, Lead developer, QA and Project Management for a better team integration.

Describe the recruitment process in detail.

After discussing our needs with a founder, they sent us CVs of current team members who fulfilled our requirements and some meetings with the team were conducted.

Can you share any outcomes from the engagement that demonstrate progress or success?

We’ve been able to release our developments in new markets in few weeks, and include in our development roadmap new products that we could never conceive without their help. Due the successful outcomes, our plans for this collaboration are still to keep it in the long-term.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The team dedicates enough time to understand requirements and expected deliverables and they are always looking for doing the extra mile for excellence. Managing remote teams is always challenging, but their approach of frequent communications and updates, made this process painless and smooth.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Overall we feel this collaboration as an extension of our team. Their effort to provide better value instead of only focusing on fulfilling requirements lists is impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

So far, the small and infrequent issues were always due miscommunications, which is something inherent to remote teams and not specifically their fault.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We create multi-player strategy games with outstanding feel and gameplay. Our Play & Earn designs drive gamification to new heights - innovating both chain-side and game-side each day! I'm the CTO of this new blockchain gaming company, directing all technical efforts of our enterprise.

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS?

Medieval Empires, game developers and a technical artist.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

The interview process was good, the candidate briefs very legible and expressive, and the quality of candidates was very good. Among the two companies we contracted with, there are no complaints whatsoever about the staff provided by Stan's Assets, which is why we regularly explore new opportunities with them.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

We develop a large multi-player online grand strategy game with blockchain connections. While the design and development is controlled by MoonGaming and MoonTech, we work with developers from Stan's Assets to make this a reality.

The project has, after about 6 months of development and some prototyping, hit an important MVP milestone with the public launch of NFT Lands being sold, and a interactive online map (using the Unity3D game client) whose visuals and functionality were strongly influenced with key contributions from Stan's Assets Staff.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We currently worked with 2 of their developers, and are in the process of contracting them for a Senior QA Analyst & Manager.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Visual Quality of the Game so far is very good, especially the Clouds, the Oceans, and Showroom Video show technical Artist Artem H.'s great skill. The WebGL Showroom, the client data layer as well as the loading and reloading of the data was implemented by developer Evgeny T., who played a crucial role in building these, all the way from proof of concept to final solution.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

While there are some language barriers, the developers are fully integrated into our team and participate in daily business as usual, including stand-ups, retrospectives, planning, and team discussions.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The incredible friendliness and professionalism even when we as a client were undecided for a while; and the casual way they have been repeatedly showing us top tier candidates that matched our job descriptions almost perfectly; even if we were unsuccessful in finding such candidates at all using our internal recruiters.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

If we can find a way to offer language classes or shared communications coaching for their developers, this would facilitate better and faster onboarding of new candidates. They initially had a bit of a hard time, even though their English skills, especially paired with their strong technical skills and pragmatic work approach, were more than sufficient.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO and Co-Founder over at Zibra AI, a deep-tech software company that focuses on AI tools for the gaming industry.

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS, and what were your goals?

We worked with Stan's Assets to support our first public release and set up continuous delivery for our first product. The whole scope included design improvement, UI features, setting up continuous delivery, and package builder. The initial goal was to support up and speed up the development process itself.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Our deciding factors were guys experience, ability to communicate well in a timely manner, and move at a really fast pace.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The initial scope consists of 2 major parts: technical development and consultation part.

• Technical part: Adding Assembly Definitions, Adding Namespaces & Public interface summaries, Package initial setup, Package Builder implementation, Optional download for Package Samples, Adding Open UPM, Adding npmjs & automation
• Consultation part: Initial review and feedback, Ongoing support

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We've worked with 2 Senior Unity3D developers

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We launched our product earlier and freed up our internal dev resources to focus on other tasks.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

It was great, we primarily communicated via Slack and Zoom calls.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They are really responsive, even outside of working hours.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

All good!

Please describe your company and your position there.

Games Development, Managing Director

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS, and what were your goals?

Unity3D Software Engineering Outsourcing

How did you select Stan's Assets from KAPPS and what were the deciding factors?

Proven track record with Unity engine, including some work on high profile projects. Founder has released robust and useful tools on Unity Asset Store,

Founder has CV experience working at Unity Technologies, Good communication during interview phase, highly professional attitude with strong work ethic, competive rates

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

General Unity 3D outsourced software engineering with a focus on gameplay and build pipeline / CICD systems

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

2-5 depending on requirements, positions ranged from Standard Unity Engineer to Senior Unity Engineer to CICD DevOps Engineer

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Very happy with collaboration, it only ended because we found ourselves in a position where we had to allocate internal resources on the project.

Good communication throughout, good velocity overall, competitive rates and an attention to detail from the founders. Generally felt well looked after.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.

Senior/Founding members will spend the time to understand requirements and deliverables / deadlines as well as internal processes and they'll quickly skill up where required to integrate themselves seamlessly.

They will look after any less senior members to ensure they are equally up to scratch with the project and its requirements minimising management overhead on the client's end.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Overall felt like a very well integrated extension of our team. For the most part, it did not feel like they were external developers, which was exactly what we were after.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

On occasion the skill level of the less senior engineers might vary, but the founders have a very professional and goal driven attitude so they will proactively take measures to ensure good standards, which is very good to see.

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO of Mobikats. We are a boutique development house, specialising in mobile apps, web and VR.

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS, and what were your goals?

We are a partner with Mesmerise who are currently developing a VR platform. KAPPS provide us with unity, webgl and 3d design services on a multitude of projects we are working on with Mesmerise. The aim of the relationship with KAPPS was the provision of high quality, well managed code and design services, which are flexible to needs of our customers.

How did you select Stan's Assets from KAPPS and what were the deciding factors?

KAPPS were assessed on their experience in following areas:

• Their unity development skills, which are exceptional
• The work they have already done in VR
• Their ability to work with UK based teams to deliver high quality deliverables fast and with professionalism
• Their creativity and ability to share that in our projects.
• To finalise our choice we ran a small project with KAPPS on behalf of our clients, which was delivered quickly and in a well managed way.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The projects require good 3d design to create new compelling spaces , combined with high quality Unity skills to turn those 3d spaces into reality. We followed an AGILE development methodology to deliver designs and then a fully coded functioning product for Oculus Quest devices. Not only were KAPPS required to deliver Quest applications, they have also created mobile applications based in Unity and WebGL applications. There understanding of good coding practice, ability to code and design skills are second to none

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

• Project manager
• 2X unity developers
• 2X designers

KAPPS provide a flexible framework, so we can scale up resources or downscale dependent on the workload.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

KAPPS developed high quality mobile apps and WebGL experience for the same mobile apps. They did this in fast time and these apps are now being used by our client and their clients without problems. The VR experiences developed show beautiful design and are build on our clients framework, which showed the ability of the KAPPS teams to be able work closely with their clients to get the job done. Feedback from the client has been extremely positive and we are continuing to grow the work they require from us and the KAPPS team.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.

Project management is of an AGILE nature, essentially fitting into weekly sprints. We use SLACK for managing communication between us and KAPPS. When KAPPS say they are going to do something it's done. They are good at reaching out and communicating with us and the client when they need to and are always there to answer questions or provide advice when needed. Outstanding service!

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Ability to solve complex problems and to be able to work collaboratively with us and our client to get the job done. Their knowledge of Unity and 3d design is second to none and of a very high standard, making them fast and professional to work with Finally, their ability to work collaboratively and creatively to get to a solution is second to none in the market.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

So far none. They are incredibly easy to work with and adaptable to their client needs.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the game producer for Nunu Spirits, a crypto NFT game at Tater Games.

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS?

We needed animations and help with a few minigames for our game.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We searched for a long time and the value seemed very good.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

There were different stages of development. Almost all of the animations (until 1.6.) were done by Stans Assets. Also two out of three minigames were done by them.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We were allocated 1 programmer, 1 tester, 1 animator, and 1 project manager.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

They developed and animated all required assets in time and with good output. Weekly calls were scheduled where we provided feedback.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Very effective - we had also access to their Jira, so we could track what they are currently working on and how far they are.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They have very nice communication skills!

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

They could do more Q&A and test a bit more.

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO, Creative and Art director.

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS?

We hired Stand's Assets for a fast paced online platformer.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Very professional and low risk approach.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

They were thorough in their choice of technologies. Making sure it was best suited for the project.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Three members: two programmers and one project manager.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

They were on time with the deliveries most of the time and if not they were able to state clearly why and how the issues will be resolved.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

It felt like they were in house.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They were highly skilled and talented individuals that deliver quality software.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

None that I can think of. Some of the minor issues were technically understandable.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a project manager at Winpeak. WinPeak is an online competitive and eSports gaming platform. Competitions of players for a cash reward for winning games are based on the player's personal skill.

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS, and what were your goals?

Unity3D Software Engineering Outsourcing

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Proven track record with Unity engine, including some work on high profile projects.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Unity 3D outsourced software engineering. We are working on the development of applications for our platform

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

2-3 depending on requirements, positions ranged from Standard Unity Engineer to Senior Unity Engineer

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Very happy with collaboration The tasks that we set are completed on time. We have no problems with communication. The development process is very smooth and pleasant

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Senior team members will take the time to understand the requirements and outcomes of the timeline and internal processes, and they will quickly propose solutions for seamless integration. They will always offer the best solution

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Ability to solve complex problems and work quickly and professionally. Finally, their ability to work together.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

So far none. They are incredibly easy to work with and adaptable to their client needs.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm CEO of the company developing games for mobile platforms

For what projects/services did your company hire Stan's Assets from KAPPS, and what were your goals?

We needed a plugin for Unity that will allow us to directly access default player on mobile phones

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We used plugins for Unity that KAPPS developed so decided to ask for custom plugin.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

That was pretty small and brief project, we discussed scope of the work, then get some first versions that was polished and become final deliveries.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We worked mostly with developer directly

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We've got a Unity plugin that works perfectly and exactly we needed

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Brief communication and estimation was perferct

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They were highly knowledgeable about working on Unity plug-ins.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

I don't know such