Black Pudding Games

Black Pudding Games is a young British game provider, having been founded in 2018 by a trio of self-described mavericks. However, the three founders can count on over 30 years of combined experience in the casino gaming and entertainment industry. The company describes itself frankly as "not another bloody sausage factory," and pride itself in not only thinking different, but doing different. Early 2020 also saw Black Pudding Games join forces with 1X2 Network in a partnership that sees Black Pudding Games develop all future games on the 1X2 Network remote game server. As part of the partnership Black Pudding Games joins a roster of developers with games accessible via the 1X2 Network RGS, including the unique 3PI aggregation platform. As such, Black Pudding Games will line up alongside 1X2 Network's proprietary 1x2gaming and Iron Dog Studio brands, as well as the Playson, Habanero, GameArt and Gamomat, all currently connected by the 3PI platform.

Atomic Reactor

Aeterna

 

Slice and Dice

Squeaky Blinders

Start & Development

Being such a young company, so far Black Pudding games has four games on offer, with the first available on Videoslots Casino being Aeterna. According to the company, Aeterna is the first Orbital Reactor game - a "radical imagining" of the casino slot that transforms the traditional 3-reel slot into something new and visually exciting. As such, Aeterna consists of three interlocking reels set in a star formation. This unique reel array also brings a distinctive set of pay rules to determine payouts from the spins. In fact, instead of traditional paylines the game counts the symbols on the outer positions of the reels. Match 3 or more adjacent symbols to trigger a win! The slot also includes a cascade mechanic complete with a multiplier that can turn an initial spin into a chain reaction leading to "theoretically infinite" riches. A Twin Win Booster feature allows you to upgrade two 3-of-a-kind wins into one 6-of-a-kind result, while the free spins turn the reel array into a wheel-of-fortune that determines the amount of free spins. This allows you to earn up to 30 free spins with all wins doubled and potentially unlimited retriggers!

A second title we got to check from Black Pudding Games is Slice & Dice. This is a match-3 scratch card title, if one with a darkly humorous take on the game type. You see, Slice & Dice casts you as a surgeon trying to save patients suffering from "Die-abetes," a rare dice-related condition. To save these poor souls you need to slice open the nine zones marked on the patient's torso to uncover the casino dice growing within. Get 3 matching dice to get the payout and save a life, but fail and... well, you've lost the patient. A Super Selector Bonus rewards you with bigger payouts for the fewer moves made, and you can even set a custom pattern to autoplay the game.

Portfolio

To close off the trilogy of Super Selector scratch card titles Black Pudding Games brings 3 Blind Mice. This is actually a sequel of sorts to Bun in the Oven, as it stars Patty O'Cake, the wife of first game's Pat O'Cake. She is the Verminator, and is tasked with hunting down the mice wreaking havoc in Pat's bakery. To do so she has to round up the three matching mice hiding behind the nine plates, who happen to be the ringleaders with the same colour icing they have been munching on. Get the matching three mice for a prize, but fail... and all the rodents will escape to further mess up the bakery! The Super Selector Bonus means bigger payouts for fewer moves, and custom pattern autoplay makes a return.

Our final verdict

Black Pudding Games is surely set to bring something different to Videoslots Casino! Their current slots and scratch card demonstrate a winning combination of excellent visuals and left-field ideas, marking a company that is clearly not afraid to try bringing something crazy and new to the casino table. We cannot wait to check out what else they have in store!