Product Design: Developer Portal

Addicting Games

Project Overview

This project stemmed from the feedback of developers and a lack of quality submissions that led to long QA times for submitted games to the Addicting Games website. Additionally the finalized product was to be used for further monetization with other game platforms within our network.

Project Timeline

Jul 2023 - Oct 2023

My role

Led the full product design of a new onboarding method to facilitate developer’s game management and new developer onboarding.

Goals

Process Streamlining

Create a more automated self serving solution for developers to submit new games

Game Management

Create a management dashboard for developers that already have existing games on addictinggames.com

Reduction in QA times

Alleviate long QA times and roadblocks or confusion in the upload process

User Research + Data Analysis

Developers currently working with Addicting Games and new developers have reached out with requests on how to add new games, submit updates or remove games entirely.

This process was originally entirely manual and sometimes took months to complete.

The need for a new submission process to intake games and potentially allow other websites to use them through our network was very clearly needed.

Solution

Streamlining and enhancing the developer experience was our main goal with this project. We aimed to create a developer portal that made the onboarding process simpler across all departments and give the developers more control with shortened QA times for faster game intake. Through the implementation of profile creation features, step by step upload process, automated testing environment and guideline checks, we were able to aliviate a large bottleneck within our onboarding process. Additionally, this portal helped developers with an already uploaded game, by allowing them to update and edit details or submit new game builds.

Once this solution was implemented support tickets for developers were cut down by nearly 40% over the course of two months and game submissions increased by 27%, all completely done by developers with no team intervention needed.