Selecta
This virtual gaming concierge redefines game discovery by utilizing a sophisticated AI-system that analyzes massive data sets to offer highly personalized game recommendations. Selecta provides gamers with a super-tailored pool of games, enhancing the user experience through smart data aggregation and seamless UX design.
- Time to hire – 12 days
- Core team – Full-Stack Developer
- Duration – 1+ year
- Budget – EUR 100k+
About the company
Selecta is a pioneering gaming platform based in the USA, offering a virtual concierge experience for gamers. The platform applies advanced AI technology to deliver personalized game suggestions, helping users navigate the overwhelming amount of gaming content available today. By analyzing data from multiple sources, Selecta ensures gamers find titles that match their preferences, offering enjoyable experiences for days, months, or even years.
Project Overview
Selecta set out to build a virtual gaming concierge capable of collecting, refining, and analyzing data from hundreds of sources to provide tailored game recommendations. The platform needed to overcome significant challenges related to data storage and processing, user experience, and system architecture. Intelvision, recommended by Selecta’s partners and clients, quickly onboarded a senior full-stack developer, ensuring smooth development progress and alignment with Selecta’s vision.
Challenges and Pains
Complexity of Data Management
Developing a platform that aggregates data from various gaming marketplaces, reviews, and platforms required advanced technical solutions to store, analyze, and present data effectively.
Delivering a Superior User Experience
Selecta needed a gamified and intuitive UX to engage users without forcing long forms or polls, maintaining the fun and seamless nature of gaming.
Refining AI-Driven Recommendations
The AI system required robust architecture to process thousands of data points quickly and provide instant, accurate game suggestions.
Solution
Intelvision delivered a tailored Talent as a Service model, providing Selecta with an experienced full-stack developer who seamlessly integrated into the team and supported the development of the AI-driven platform. The solution included:
- Advanced Data Aggregation: Implementing a comprehensive data aggregation AI Assistant Selecta that will gather information on game prices, genres, ratings, publishers, and age restrictions from multiple sources.
- Enhanced User Experience: Developing a gamified process to collect user preferences, thus avoiding traditional boring methods like surveys and forms, and ensuring a smooth and engaging interface.
- Optimized System Architecture: Building a scalable and efficient backend system using Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft Azure and enabling fast data processing and reliable AI performance.
Tech stack
Project Features
🔹 Node.js for backend services and AI system optimization
🔹React for front-end development and seamless UX integration
🔹 Unity for gaming interface and interactive features
🔹 PostGRE for advanced data storage and processing
🔹 Microsoft Azure Portal for cloud infrastructure and scalability
🔹 Advanced AI system for personalized game recommendations
🔹 Gamified UX to collect user preferences and engage gamers
What our customer says
Intelvision brought in great value when we were trying to solve some difficult problems. Their quality of work is great, and they are doing an excellent job of operating in a niche market. We are fully satisfied.
