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How Mobile Gaming is Driving Growth of App Industry?

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edited November 2014 in General questions
Gaming in mobile and web industry has become an essential part because millions of smartphone users and tech-savvy love to spend their time playing games on their mobiles, smartphones, laptops and tablets. Whether passing an hour or a few minutes with a casual puzzle or getting engaged in an interactive storyline, mobile device users love to play games, which in turn, has emerged gaming as one of the most popular category. It’s potential to reach a spectacular number of audiences and let the mobile app development companies earn billions of dollars is one of the reasons why app companies are keen to develop games. But developing an unique and engrossing game requires technical expertise, ingenious minds as well as compelling storytelling.

What makes game development different from conventional application development ?

Game development is quite different as compared to conventional app development as it requires to bring technology, imagination, skill and creativity all together along with peerless user experience. Gaming experts must possess the potential to develop a great deal of games for all the leading mobile operating systems. They must initiate the development process by developing a clear understanding of requisites and specifications.
A feature rich gaming code can only stem out from an out of the box thinking. And, this must be foster and practice at all the stages of game development. The team must be capable to bring ideas, characters and games to life especially the technical professionals who are specialized in comic-style 2D art, animation, and photorealistic 3D models. They must have the capability to develop and execute unique and artistic ideas that turn each game unique, interesting and exceptional. There are various categories of games including:

Social media games and integration of social media with games
2D and 3D game engine programming, development and modification
Educational gaming apps
Simulation oriented game development
Entertainment plus educative – apps – Edutainment
Theme and game assets designing
Integration of advanced gaming features and game porting
Artificial Intelligence involving game designing and development
Core and casual game designing
Physics oriented game designing and development

And, above all the game development team must enjoy turning creative ideas into games and remove all obstacles that they may encounter in development and designing process, publishing in top App Stores and making them viral. They must be capable of:

Offering engaging storyline, captivating graphics and astonishing backgrounds.
Applying ample of realistic effects from vibrant remains, metal wraping and smoke effects to whole particle effects.
Capable of adding amazing fusion of science, accelerometer control, game play and sound.
Must be innovative merger of designing and development to build impeccable gleaming mainstream gaming applications.

Apart, from kink free coding and captivating designs a successful game is backed by proper monetization. Games offer several options for marketing and monetization. The easiest is the pay-to-download model, in which a user pays a certain amount to download the game initially. Much more common now is the in-app purchase model. With this strategy, the game itself is free, but special powers and other extras can be bought while playing the game. Finally, a free game can be supported by advertising.
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