LT Game may add casual games to ‘House of Play’ after DICJ approval for expanded library: COO
A boss at gaming equipment maker LT Game Ltd has told GGRAsia the firm hopes to add some “casual games” to its “House of Play” product. This month LT Game received Macau regulatory approval on an expanded game library for House of Play, as well as for the firm’s electronic game product “Kam Pek Par…
A boss at gaming equipment maker LT Game Ltd has told GGRAsia the firm hopes to add some “casual games” to its “House of Play” product. This month LT Game received Macau regulatory approval on an expanded game library for House of Play, as well as for the firm’s electronic game product “Kam Pek Paradise”. The approvals are from the city’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ). House of Play – also referred to by its maker as “HOP” – is a multi-game platform designed to showcase a portfolio of games across multiple LT Game devices and cabinets, per the maker. House of Play (pictured) was among a raft of new products the company outlined to GGRAsia last year. House of Play was first nodded by the Macau gaming regulator in May, with its offering limited to electronic baccarat at the time. The regulator’s latest approval for the product – dated October 9 – covered additional casino games, namely roulette, magic wheel, sic bo, HILO, and what’s known in the industry as a “colour game”. Eddie Au chief operating officer (COO) at LT Game, told GGRAsia this week: “House of Play is targeted at overseas markets with its offering including some non-traditional casino games.” But he added: “Now with the latest [Macau regulatory] approval, we’ll certainly look at whether there is local demand for House of Play hosting casual games.” Broadly, casual games are defined as easy to understand and play, and often with short play sessions. They differ from “social games”, which are typically ones offered without cash prizes, but with other incentives such as credits. HILO is a casual game where players bet on whether a next-drawn card’s number will be either higher, lower, or equal-to, the current one. A colour game – a format popular in the Philippines – involves players betting on winning colour combinations with coloured dice, noted Mr Au. House of Play has been recognised under three Macau technical standards, per DICJ’s October approval. They were: Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM) Technical Standards 2.0; Electronic Table Games (ETG) Technical Standards 1.0; and Dealer-Operated Electronic Table Games Standards 1.0. Compliance with the latter standards means potentially House of Play could be offered in Macau as a live-dealer electronic table game product as is the firm’s best-known ETG, “Live Multi-Game”. Mr Au told GGRAsia that for now, LT Game was mulling offering House of Play in Macau specifically in a virtual format, rather than an in-person one. The firm’s Kam Pek Paradise product features a legacy collection of Chinese casino games that either retain a niche presence in Macau’s traditional live-dealer market, or have already disappeared from the city’s gaming floors. The three casino games approved by DICJ for the Kam Pek Paradise product are: fan tan, the dice game fish-prawn-crab sic bo; and the tile game mahjong pai gow. The product had been showcased at Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia 2026 in Macau in May. The Kam Pek Paradise product’s testing was approved on October 9 under one protocol: EGM Technical Standards 2.0. The testing organisation for the Kam Pek Paradise product and for House of Play, was BMM Testlabs.