When you arrive at the airport, you check in early and get a decent seat. You make it through security, find your gate, and queue up to board the airplane. You then sit down in your seat, and wait. You’re waiting for a slot, the time that the flight will be allowed to take off.
In computer science, a slot (plural: slots) is a part of the operation issue and data path machinery in a machine that shares these resources with other execution units. This is a common approach to parallel processing in very long instruction word (VLIW) computers, which use dynamic scheduling to allocate the available execution resources among multiple operations.
A slot is also the name of a position in a group, series, sequence, or hierarchy, or a place in a system, such as a timetable, where someone has a specific assignment or responsibility. This sense of the word was first recorded in 1882.
After conducting market research, your business will build a prototype of your slot game. This prototype will be a lightweight, working version of the game that allows your team to see how the features work and how they interact. You will need to consider the cost of developing a prototype and how it fits into your development budget. Once your slot game is developed, you will need to test it for quality assurance and user acceptance testing. Once your slot game is released, it will be important to regularly update the game to keep it relevant and interesting for your audience.