Big Time Gaming

Big Time Gaming is an Australian slot developer. Its about page gives a founding year of 2011 and an address in Surry Hills, New South Wales, names Nik Robinson as founder, and credits Huw McIntosh with technical guidance and Ian Schmidt with creative direction. The same page says Robinson previously founded New Tech Media, which was sold to News Corp and merged with Orbis to become OpenBet.

The studio is best known for Megaways, a reel format in which the number of symbols on each reel changes from spin to spin, giving up to 117,649 ways to win. Big Time Gaming licenses Megaways to other developers, and the mechanic appears in games from several suppliers listed in this database. Two further formats, Megaclusters and Megapays, are also described on its site.

Bonanza, which the about page dates to 2016, was the first game built around Megaways. Later titles include White Rabbit, which extends reels during free spins for up to 248,832 ways; Extra Chilli, which adds a Feature Drop purchase and a free spins gamble; Danger High Voltage, a 4,096-ways music-licensed slot; and Star Clusters Megaclusters, which grows a 4x4 grid up to 16x16.

Evolution's company timeline records an agreement to acquire Big Time Gaming in 2021, and the studio's own site links to Evolution. Game pages state HTML5 delivery for mobile and desktop in more than 22 languages, but publish RTP and maximum win only as images, so those numbers are not recorded here.

Big Time Gaming's about page dates Bonanza, the first Megaways game, to 2016. Its game pages give a day and month for each release but not a year, so release dates are not recorded for individual titles in this database. Evolution's timeline records the agreement to acquire Big Time Gaming in 2021.