4C Games puts player competition at the centre of SiGMA World

4C Games is a B2B studio that develops games for betting sites, casinos and aggregators. The company's Loco Loco and The Edge games let players make football predictions and back those predictions with chips or special cards. Both games include a leaderboard, and this structure adds a fantasy football feel to the competition.

In Loco Loco, players face six yes or no questions. For each question they choose how much of their chip balance to stake, and they can use part of the balance, all of it, or none. Answers can be changed until the questions close. Correct predictions win chips, while chips placed on wrong predictions are lost.

In The Edge, players choose three of six cards and place them on different predictions. Boost cards multiply the points for a correct answer by two, three or four, while the Shield card gives half the base points of the question when the answer is wrong. Players have to decide with only three cards which predictions to back.

Plinko Derby works differently. Before entry closes, the player picks a virtual horse, and each Plinko drop moves the horses toward the finish line. No further choices are made during the race. Entry fees go into a shared pool, and those who backed the winning horse split the prize pool according to the game's rules. Plinko Derby is offered for international markets and is not part of the company's current Great Britain market.

Alongside its pool-based formats, 4C Games is also planning a version of each instant game where the house plays against the player. Operators will be able to test the games and judge which format suits their own players. The company's CEO, Brad Knowles, will meet operators and potential business partners at the show.