Mobile game development
Mobile Game Development Services
Introduction
Games have become an integral part of Mobile devices now. Gaming is one of the considerations taken into mind while choosing a new phone. Thus, game developers pay special attention to mobile platforms and their capacities. The Mobile Game Developer should be aware of the technical and non-technical aspects of the mobile before developing a mobile game. Mobile Game Development services are a consistently growing field now.
Stages of Mobile Game Development
Let us see, what it takes to develop a mobile game. Essentially there are 8 stages of Mobile Game Development. Let us go through each of them:
- Game Idea: The foremost and very important aspect of developing a game is the idea. But it depends upon a few parameters like these:
Who are the targeted players?
Why will they play our game?
What features of the game will attract its user?
- Concept Development: The concept of a game is a brief document having four building blocks of every game.
The four basic building blocks of a game are Game Mechanics, Setting, Technology, and Interaction.
Mechanics are the rules, or the steps player must follow to achieve their goals.
The two important parts of the setting are – Story and Aesthetics. The story is the description of the game world and aesthetics is how your game or characters look like.
Technology means choosing a balance of the technology required for the aesthetics chosen and compatibility with the device.
Interactions mean the usability of devices and the chosen input methods.
- Creating a Game Design Document: It is a highly descriptive document and keeps changing as and when feedback are received to improve the design of the game. A GDD is generally edited by the collaboration of all designers and developers.
- Create Prototypes: To verify the Concept Document, Prototypes are created. It includes the most important mechanics and resembles the actual game. It is done to develop more fun factors in the game by assessing the unexpected behavior of the users.
- Design Architecture: A strong architectural framework is required to meet the dynamics around to keep the game updated with the latest upcoming designs, making them more appealing to the targeted audience.
- Implementation: A Game Developer may now proceed to the implementation of the game after creating a Prototype and Architecture Design.
- Testing: Testing is done by potential players, then the bug fixing is done.
- Support the game: After the launch also, for a couple of months, support is required to achieve the growth of the user base.
Conclusion:
Game development service is a growing industry, due to reasons like internet accessibility and easy user Interfacing. It has also led to the improvement of the hardware of mobile device.