The Challenge
Viva- Media is a market leader in the video game publishing industry, maintaining a top 10 NPD ranking for the last several years. Viva Media was looking to redesign and develop their Web site with the ability to sell their products online. The main objectives were:
- A content management system that would allow Viva Media to add new products and manage their site
- The ability to sell both downloadable games and traditional boxed games
- SEO friendly Web site
- Integration of video to be delivered by Brightcove
Solution
After meeting with Viva Media and discussing their goals, 1/0 recommended the integration of Sitefinity for the content management and ASPDOTNETSTOREFRONT for the Ecommerce engine. “We wanted a CMS that would bridge the gap between the developer and the end user, something that offered both flexibility and ease,” said our lead developer Kevin Stengle. “Sitefinity is a great value, and when client sees how easy it is to integrate their assets, the solution sells itself.” 1/0 also recommended utilizing Brightcove to serve their game trailers from their site. 1/0 wrote custom controls to integrate the three systems into a cohesive platform to meet Viva Media’s goals.
Some of the development highlights are;
- Allow customers to purchase physical copies or downloadable copies of titles utilizing ASPDOTNETSTOREFRONT integrated with a custom serial key generating system
- Built controls to allow the Viva Media to customize backgrounds and advertisements throughout the site using custom templates within Sitefinity
- Enabling new products that are added into ASPDOTNETSTOREFRONT to be consumed into the Sitefinity CMS to display on the product pages
- Social Integration of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Digg
- Creating a custom age-gate for mature titles
The Results
The Viva Media Web site is now positioned to drive online sales and promote their games online
- Sitefinity’s ease and built-in web 2.0 modules and integration with ASPDOTNETSTOREFRONT helped to make the site fresh and up to date.
- A tremendously positive response from video game manufacturers elevating Viva Media’s status in the community