Inside Pragmatic Play: Innovation, Live Casino & What's Next
Pragmatic Play has a wide catalogue spanning slots, live casino games and game shows. Gates of Olympus Roulette carries the provider’s recognisable slot setting into a live casino production with a polished studio presentation.
Anastasios Ioannidis, Head of Affiliate Marketing at ARRISE, discussed the development of the game, how its formats cross over and what the provider might explore next.
Q. How did the idea take shape for Gates of Olympus Roulette, which brings a popular slot into a live casino setting?
Gates of Olympus Roulette marks a notable release, but Pragmatic Play has previously carried a familiar slot identity into another format. Sweet Bonanza CandyLand brought the well-known Sweet Bonanza slot to live casino viewers in a wheel-based game show.
The new title makes a similar connection between slots and live casino. It takes another established provider brand and reshapes it as a live roulette game with a distinctive presentation.
Moving Gates of Olympus into another format was a fitting direction, according to Ioannidis: the brand’s recognition and fantasy setting suited an immersive live game show.
Players enter Zeus’ realm, where the familiar roulette format is augmented with multipliers and the bonus round from the original Gates of Olympus slot. The game’s stated top win is 10,000x.
Q. What posed the biggest difficulty in reworking Gates of Olympus as a live roulette game?
Ioannidis described quality as a central priority for Pragmatic Play’s live casino output, especially for productions built around a high-impact game show.
The team also had to respect the profile of the globally recognised Gates of Olympus brand, while bringing together details that would feel at home in both a slot and a roulette game.
Q. Which parts of the original slot were essential to carry into the live game?
Zeus remains at the centre of the setting. The character was a defining part of the original game, and the King of the Gods returns here as a prominent figure, with a more muscular build, bright white hair and his signature thunderbolts.
The live format also leaves space for visual touches drawn from the slot, including its flashes of lightning and storm-like scene changes.
The bonus round mirrors the original, with Zeus overseeing a large grid. When a Super Booster is active at the time it triggers, it can add up to an additional 10x to wins, raising the bonus game’s stated maximum potential to 10,000x.
Q. How does Gates of Olympus Roulette sit alongside Pragmatic Play’s other live roulette games? Does it add to classic tables or take a different route?
It aims to do both. The title follows multiplier-led games such as Fortune Roulette and Mega Roulette 3000, while adding another entry to Pragmatic Play’s game show range and another setting for its multipliers.
The familiar live roulette format remains, with Lucky Numbers and a Super Booster layered on top. A slot-inspired bonus round brings a further mechanic that sets the game apart from a standard table.
Q. What would you point to as the main reason for a newcomer to try Gates of Olympus Roulette?
Ioannidis highlighted the game’s roulette format and potential top wins, alongside its studio setting and production values.
The design aims to draw players into the game’s world through detailed touches, from a marble-clad roulette wheel to a cinematic scene change that leads into the bonus round.
The hosts’ Grecian-inspired costumes suit the temple-themed studio, adding to the game show’s visual style.
Q. For someone new to the game, how does its learning curve compare with traditional roulette?
The game is intended for people with different levels of experience, including those who know roulette and those more accustomed to slots. Its mix of formats may appeal to players from either side.
At its core is classic European roulette, with the standard inside and outside bets available on a familiar wheel and betting layout.
The added multipliers follow a straightforward structure. As the wheel spins, up to seven Lucky Numbers can be selected at random, each with a multiplier of up to 250x, alongside one Bonus Number. A winning straight-up bet on a Lucky Number receives its multiplier; landing on the Bonus Number starts the separate slot bonus.
A Super Booster may also add a further multiplier of up to 10x to any selected number.
The Gates of Olympus pays-anywhere bonus uses a 6×5 slot grid and starts with 15 free spins. A prize is awarded when eight or more matching symbols appear anywhere on the reels.
Winning symbol groups may set off a tumble, and multipliers of up to 500x can appear at random during a spin or tumble. More Scatter symbols can award additional free spins.
Q. Might Pragmatic Play develop more hybrid games in future, perhaps drawing on other popular titles?
Ioannidis pointed to the lasting success of Sweet Bonanza CandyLand as evidence of interest in games that bridge formats.
Gates of Olympus is one of several successful Pragmatic Play franchises, he said, and the provider continues to look for different ways to present its established brands. He encouraged readers to watch for what comes next.
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