Research & development

Travian Games is very ambitious in terms of current techniques or engine usage. But we are utilizing a separate research and development department (R & D team) that engages with the latest trends in Web technologies in order to support future developments with empirical values and visionary methods. It is particularly committed to investigating the practical opportunities of HTML 5 and CSS 3 in the frontend. The performance of new technologies under stressed conditions plays an important role, as does cross-platform usability. But the latest trends are also assessed in terms of the backend – e.g. Node.js & NoSQL databases, as well as algorithms, structures and protocols for saving or transferring large data quantities. This evaluation work developed the prototype "O.R.C.", for example, which presents a fully-playable real-time experience in the browser completely in Java Script, with no download whatsoever.