Makitone Gaming

Makitone Gaming is a boutique software developer with headquarters and a small specialty iGaming lab in Estonia. They produce HTML5 video slots for desktop Flash or mobile casino play. The staff includes programmers, animators, artists, and sound technicians.

Games and Software

Makitone Gaming's HTML5 development team has created feature-rich online video slots. All of the games are designed and deployed for cross-platform implementation. This means that they can be played on any browser and any operating system; PC, MAC, Linux, iOS, Android, or Blackberry.

Unlike many developers who re-engineer graphics and the user interface in order to deploy an older game over mobile, leaving the player to wonder if the game engine remains the same, Makitone Gaming now develops a single unified HTML5 version of each game for all platforms and delivery systems. What this means to the player, in essence, is that the game will look exactly the same, with the same controls, whether played at home, in the office, or over a personal communications device.

Makitone Gaming entered the market with Koi Garden in late 2016. Elegant in its simplicity, Koi Garden takes the player to a cherry blossomed garden in Japan with gameplay occurring in the Koi fish environment. Water lilies and lily pads accent the calm demeanour of the fish most closely associated with good fortune and luck. But they also represent perseverance in adversity and strength of purpose. Those can come in handy as players may experience some dry spells before hitting mid to high-level returns.

Three or more Dragonfly symbols will activate up to 15 free spins with 3x payouts. The feature can be re-triggered during free spins. Three or more Water Lilies will trigger a choosing game where players may pick their favorite Koi Fish for random prizes.

At the time of this review, Makitone Gaming had released five titles. In addition to Koi Garden, players will find another Asian-themed slot in Secrets of a Geisha Slots with free spins, multipliers, and a gambling game. Like Koi Garden, the soundscape is appropriate to the theme and dynamic in play.

Viking´s Victory Slots comes to life after you begin to spin the reels with the Norsemen lofting arrows and swinging weapons like the morning star, a mace with spikes for ultimate impact. Land five of these Vikings for 5,000x your bet per line.

Further titles include The Gang Job Slots which takes players into the Chicago underworld of old with free spins and a bank job bonus that will have you trying to avoid the boys in blue and take home the loot. The latest release is Caesar's Triumph Slots with the possibility of triggering 20 free spins with up to a six-times multiplier. Released in April 2017, the soundtrack is dynamic and provides adrenaline driven purpose as players anticipate the big winning combinations. Caesar's Triumph also allows the strategist in you to decide whether to go all or nothing on a gambling game after any sized win.

Conclusion

Although a relatively new provider in the boutique category, the internal workings of the games credence beyond obligatory Central or South American licensing regimes.