In the beginning of 2017 our team finished our own mobile project, arcade game "Zumb". A small team of four was working on this and as a result we managed to produce a really interesting product. This game is about breaking the bubbles, the favorite activity from our childhood. This time you're doing it right on the screen of your mobile through firing the balls. The arcade time-killer and puzzle are available in two game modes: classic and arcade.

Classic mode involves the mind and logic of a player offering to solve 50 exciting levels. As a player passes through them, more and more unusual obstacles appear: repulsive surfaces, flying shards, black holes, etc. To overcome these and other obstacles there are different types of balls available, each has some unique features.

Arcade mode brings a special dynamism and freedom to the game allowing a player to focus on his skills improvement, throwing balls in different directions and popping a series of bubbles at once. The more bubbles you break in a period of time, the more points you earn. And due to special сombo-throws a gamer has the opportunity to earn not only extra points, but bonus seconds as well.

The game is fully localized and available in 10 different languages, including Russian. In order to increase the audience and user coverage we plan to port the game to Android platform.

Beside the game itself we have developed an international website to give the players around the globe the opportunity to learn more about the gameplay. In addition to original design we also tried to reflect on the site all the game features and even created a separate video dedicated to the gameplay, the promo landing is here: zumb-game.com Zumb project became very popular, successful and interesting for the players. Apple Insider, 4PDA and some other well-known media have already published the reviews about the game.

Technologies used

ocos2d-x, C++, Objective C and Swift

IHI is a revolutionary tender platform that implements a fundamentally new method of B2B cooperation between cargo carriers (transportation companies) and their customers (legal entities). The project is based on the idea to automate the processes of search for cargo contractors and related services. The portal provides tools for interaction and communication between companies, keeps records of the contractors’ rating, provides statistics and other related services.

For customers the service has a number of built-in tools to detailize the transportation task as well as the subsequent systematization and selection of proposals. For contractors there are also the tools for the selection of profitable orders and proposals. The portal continues to assist after the signing of contract providing legal advice to the parties as well as providing opportunities for their direct interaction on business issues.

The portal works as follows

Customers create the orders with all the details and system sends these requests to all contractors registered on the portal. Thus registered transportation companies receive an unlimited flow of orders for cargo services from all over Russia. They set up portal filters to see the orders best fitted their specialization. According to selected orders the calculations are made and cargo companies send them to their prospects. A client receives a lot of calculations from different cargo companies, he structures and filters them according to own criteria. Having chosen the most attractive offer with help of portal's intelligent expert system, the customer initiates delivery start. The parties can continue communication either on the portal or directly. Upon completion both parties leave an assessment and publish a review on the portal according to their impressions of work with a counterparty.

As part of the work on the project our team designed a UX-solution for UI, a unique design of the personal cabinet/landing page and developed a software part of the web portal.

The unique technology

One company – multiple accounts: each company can create unlimited numbers of sub-accounts and delegate some power based on the number of employees/agents.

The tool for systematization and selection of profitable offers: by registering in the service the customers get access to a fantastic number of orders/offers that flow into their hands. It's lyric while mathematics proves it's impossible to process manually so many orders without involving a lot of human resources. However this is not a good solution for small transportation companies. Therefore IHI developed a special tool to systematize and select the most profitable and interesting offers according to predefined criteria, as well as intelligent algorithms for automatic distribution of incoming orders between departments or specific employees. Thus each company can set up the process of receiving and processing the orders according to the accepted procedure.

Rating system: a huge benefit in the IHI service is provided by the rating and feedback system based on the actual transactions. At the end of transaction the parties leave their estimates and publish own impressions of working with the counterparty. Thus the system generates an aggregated rating which the parties can actively use to select a proven and reliable counterparty for cooperation.

Statistics center: as with any exchange, it is critical for IHI users to keep under control all the activities they carry out in the trading process. That is why each account administrator gets unlimited access to his account statistics. Using this tool, he can monitor the successes and failures of individual employees, the cost of working time as well as collecting aggregate statistics for certain periods of time.

User action logging system: for the IHI platform support office the "Axeta Watch" user activity logging package was introduced that allows platform administrators to receive detailed information about users' activity, summary statistics and quickly track rules violators. Besides this system helps support professionals to quickly detect the problem and provide timely assistance to the client.

Technologies used

Backend: Yii
Frontend: Marionette / Backbone / Underscore / Require / jQuery / SASS / Grunt
Architecture: REST API / Continuous Integration / Autotests / Instances Configuration

The system is developed by our engineers as a multi-module SPA and managed by Axeta CMS.

Internal Cloud is a web-based interface for automated configuration of server clusters and virtual machines located in the network. The automation is based on the use of programmable templates, a hierarchical structure that includes hosts, locations, scripts, profiles, facets and variables.

The idea for this project was born 10+ years ago from a small project to manage large groups of computing servers. Originally the system was used exclusively by administrators in data centers, but later the QA-engineers, software development laboratories and many other user groups really liked it. The essence of the Internal Cloud system is to centrally manage a group of servers over the network and install the necessary software.

During the system design the following features and components were also added

• Templates for software installation and startup, including their own hierarchy
• The hierarchy of storage containers
• Object-oriented properties of the containers
• User roles and assigning access rights to a hierarchy

Like any large information system from the architectural point of view Internal Cloud consists of a set of interconnected modules based on different technologies. One of the most important components is definitely the web-interface, as the rest of the system is managed by it and the “look-and-feel” product experience is dependant on web-interface quality as well. Our team was responsible for web-interface frontend development and has made many efforts to ensure the end users receive only positive emotions. On the technical point of view, the client side of the project is RIA that's built as SPA based on the Backbone frontend framework. The project widely uses a customized version of the Backgrid component in conjunction with its own solution for interactive tables rendering as well as the D3 library for building graph structures.

Technologies used

Backend: Java / Spring / Hibernate
Frontend: Backbone / Underscore / Require / jQuery / D3 / SASS / Grunt

Marathon

For a long time Promsvyazbank has been a sponsor of different sport events in Russia including the biggest one in the field of sport running, Moscow Marathon. As a replacement to old customer’s site our engineers implemented the frontend and backend sides of bilingual portal in Russian and English for users around the globe.

The client side of the portal provides the following

• Displaying of all coming and past sport events
• Registering to competitions along with ordering of and payment for supplementary accessories, e.g. t-shirts, teacups, including donations to charity
• Browsing all available to user competitions comprising the events for which a user has already been registered
• Visualization of personal results with detailed statistics: average speed, time at control spots, ratings for personal time and age group, etc.

The backend side provides to portal administrators a wide range of functionality, specifically it allows

• To quickly create new competitions, events, setting up the cost of the tournaments
• To work with reports, to mass-registering new users and to flexibly manage the portal operators
• To promptly solve other organizational and financial issues based on the portal information

According to special customer request we enriched the portal functionality with ability to manually register the participants right during a competition.

In order to increase portal usability we implemented the backend integration with

• Paykeeper payment system, to pay competition fee and for other services
• Service «Marathon Photo», to quickly receive the photos from competitions
• Service «Chronotrack», to promptly get personal results and statistics

The portal was successfully launched in 2018, 100,000+ national and international users have been using its services. Average daily traffic is above 2,000 visitors, getting up to 10,000-30,000 users on the days of competitions

Technologies used

Python, Django, Postgres, ElasticSearch, HTML/CSS, jQuery and other

TeleScan Mobile App

According to request of company "Vita Familiariter" our team has developed a multifunctional mobile application "Telescan". This app scans any phone number from any surface, recognize the digits on the image and then automatically dials them. Some users might often need this, e.g. for mass-dialing the phone numbers from the ads: real-estate brokers, commercial agents, etc.

The app is based on Android platform, has been developed in 1 month and successfully patented. It provides:

• Phone numbers scanning
• Automatic dialing of recognized numbers
• Zoom function
• In-app purchases: ads disabling and backlight access

In addition a special mode for left handers has been introduced as well. For the development purpose we used Google Vision OCR Engine libraries. Google Play Market paid subscription implemented. The mobile app has been downloaded and installed at 5000+ Android-based devices around the world (according to Play Market).

Technologies used

Android/Kotlin

Confectionery House App

Confectionery House «Kulikovsky» has been a leader in confectionery production for years. They addressed our team to develop a complex loyalty program for their shops visitors. The objective was to create a multifunctional service for online interaction with clients of network shops. We implemented the project as mobile apps for Android/iOS platforms and as backend control panel.

The mobile apps developed by our engineers allow to

The backend control panel allows the operators, supervisors and project administrators to

• Control the news, promo actions, competitions
• Manage the shops and regions of presence
• Browse/change the contact information
• Chat with users and exchange the images
• Accrue and write-off the users' bonuses in manual mode
• Find user details in database
• Check and analyze apps usage statistics
• Execute a search in transaction database

The integrations with barcode scanners have been done in order to quickly identify a client at cash desk of a shop and to control a user’s bonus account. The apps were successfully uploaded/registered to AppStore and Google Play market, about 45,000+ users have installed them at their devices making 1000+ bonus transactions daily.

Technologies used

Swift, Kotlin, PHP, Yii2, MariaDB, REST API