From early concept to a production-ready, high-load tournament platform
Rival Games needed to validate and launch a scalable tournament platform capable of supporting real-time gameplay, console integrations, and future growth.
Limestone Digital partnered as a delivery owner, assembling a cross-functional team to take the product from concept to a stable, production-ready platform with predictable execution.
Rival Games aimed to launch a competitive gaming platform attractive to both individual players and organized teams.
Supporting real-time tournaments at scale
Integrating with Xbox and PlayStation ecosystems
Ensuring performance, reliability, and user experience from day one
Limestone assembled a dedicated cross-functional team and took full ownership of delivery, from early concept validation to production-ready architecture.
The solution was designed to support high concurrent usage, real-time data flows, and long-term scalability.
Ready-for-high-load architecture for smooth performance
The platform architecture was designed for high load, continuous uptime, and seamless integration with external gaming services, ensuring stable performance during peak tournament activity.
This module provides players with an overview of their personal account information: short bio, earned coins, achievements, and awards.
This module is a kind of randomizer for choosing competitors in 1-v-1 games or teammates in group tournaments. It defines who is willing to play a game and finds a match in real-time.
This is a board where players are ranked by their scores. Some additional filters can also be applied to display, for instance, only the rating table of a particular game or specific timeframe.
The tournament page is the essential part of the entire application that contains:
This will notify when a competitor is found or the tournament has reached the required number of participants.
An integrated service allows to stream games that are currently live. Afterward, the streams are available for an overview. This creates an opportunity to learn about the players, their style, and tactics. The list of matches – players may find here the list of opened (with vacant spots), current (that are ongoing and available for view), ended (where players can see the results) games; Tournament overviews – here is the full information of the previous games, players, round & total scores, prizes for each game.
