Web Development for Audio & Music Library
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Introductory information
A few words almost your organisation and personal responsibilities
I am Julian Cerrillo, CEO of VGAME (Video Game Audio &, Music Elements) a web-based library made up of contributions from video game music composers, producers, and sound designers. VGAME’S library includes big music goods from Grammy and G.A.N.G. assign winners
Our goal is to facilitate the integration of sound and music into video games utilizing measure activity practices. We propose a high-end condition music and audio library as well as a strong search engine for you to take gain of while searching for the consummate track: + More than 9000 tracks specifically curated for all types of video games + Simple Music &, Audio License + Team of Expert Curators
Desired goal
What issue was the preparer supposed to deal with?
Nirvana Canada?VGAME is a veritably challenging project in all the senses. We needed to educe a platform capable of managing many fronts: Contributors, Clients, Payouts, Payment Gateways, etc. on top of big quantitys of data (many, many GB) that should be uniformly copious and useful through our website.
What were your objectives for this project?
Develop and design a web-based library in which Music Composers and Sound Designers from all about the globe can upload their creations for the occasion to License them to Video Game Programmers and Designers.
Provided solution
What were the reasons for choosing ?
We selected Nirvana based on their experience and budget or total estimated cost. There were more than 8 different companies that we asked to present a propose for educeing VGAME',S website. Only 4 of them verity presented a complete propose. The other 4 got back to us assertion the project was too big for them or that they lacked the experience to do it.
For the ones that presented the proposes, VGAME',S investors and I analyzed their antecedent experience, such as if they had educeed complicated and big marketplaces precedently, their level of labors and the way they were thinking to access the technical difficulties we will most likely face during the educement of our project (e.g. which backend and frontend platform they were going to use, storage issues that could make the website loading despatch very slow and payouts to contributors - to name a few)
Nirvana had educeed website/marketplaces like ours precedently. Maybe not the same activity, but the level of complexity and detailed needed for our website was something that Nirvana had worked with precedently. Between what I',ve just described, their level of labor and the total cost estimate for the project we determined that they were the best fit for us and hired them without.
Describe the project and the labors they granted in detail.
On phase 1 of our project, we granted Nirvana with the idea and how we wanted our website to work for both, contributors and end users. We needed to have something that could be easy to use for Musicians and Sound Designers so that they can upload their creations and, at the same time, prepare us with as much metadata as practicable to be able to categorize and shape the information.
Once we achieved a true number of tracks on our database we launched Phase 2 of our project. In this phase we used the metadata calm on phase 1 to propose Video Game Programmers and Designers a website in which they can find music and audio for their video games easily by:
- Organizing and curating the Music and SFX into Video Game Categories that they apprehend
- Giving them a playback in which they can hear to the music and SFX they are looking for without having to open separate tabs
- Providing them with a strong search engine that can help them minimize the time of search and integration of music and SFX into video games Nirvana took care of all of the technical and design aspects of our website.
From the design to the educement of the front and backend they were in direct of making this gate practicable, user well-inclined, reliable and expandable according to our needs.
They educeed all of our website',s key modules: + General Users Module which includes: Dashboard, My account, Wishlist, My orders and Messages + Contributors upload and dashboard module which includes all of the over plus: My goods/uploades, My account, My Finances and Sales. + Search page module which includes filters such as: Keywords, Video Game Categories, Track Duration, Music, SFX (to name a few) + Curators backend module in which we can hear, like and edit all of the tracks we take. + Payout module for contributors + Custom Shopping cart and payment gateway + Full website look and feel and web pages
Were there any dedicated directors or teams that you worked with?
The project had about 6 nation that were closely implicated with the educement. Smita, our project director, was and stay our point of touch with the business and had made an unappropriated job organizing all the task and demandments that have made this project practicable.
Results achieved
Can you share any information that demonstrates the contact that this project has had on your business?
Our total operations are web-based. We simply can',t exist without a website owing that',s the total point of the labors we propose. When we leading began Phase 1 I without noticed that they knew precisely what they were doing, they would commend and hint to me what the project needed in order to make it practicable while looking out for our budget through see determination making.
Things like storing all of our tracks on a cloud to make the search results and VGAME',S website pages load faster, use a true plug for our the search engine or how to better shape the data we calm, ended up being key components of our challenging project and things that only they, with their experience, can come up with.
They',ve also given us inestimable support all the time. Projects like this one demand uniform and particular care. We faced challenges during the website composition, such music composers accessing to us with solid music catalogues that demandd to be uploaded to the website, or Payout modules not able to link properly with the bank. They had, and quiet have, our back through all of our travel.
How was project treatment arranged and how powerful was it?
We divided the project in Phases (as I mentioned precedently) for each phase we plainly stated the key modules to educe and the time each module will approximately take to be prompt. Although some modules took a pliant longer than expected our project was released on time and in a early substance. We use tools such as Google Spreadsheets, customary email, Whereby and Microsoft Office.
What precisely do you attend to be the key particularty of ?
I can say with trust, behind working unitedly with them for more than a year, that there are not that many companies like this out there. They have a rare mix of genius, labor, and commitment.
They like challenges, and while most of the nation would probably run far away from the mysterious, they own it, face it and clasp each and see one of their tasks while carrying them out with the joy, emotion and intelligence that only Smita and Nirvana’s team can fetch unitedly.
What should be done better, if there are any desired improvements?
None
