subject: Now A Day, Mobile Game Is More Preferable Than Pc Games. [print this page] Why Mobile Games are on bang? Why Mobile Games are on bang?
Based on latest mobile user’s survey, many respondents stated that their preferred place to play mobile games is on the couch or in bed. The survey was conducted and analysed the behaviour and play habits of mobile gamers, defined as those who have played a mobile game in the past month
Several of the results are not so astonishing; people play games at times when they have to kill time or backlog and many people play as passengers on public transport.
This given survey clearly stated that arrival of tablets and the availability of games created specifically for mobile are making a big impact on user habits.
Today, it is easy for developer to develop game on iOS and Android Platform. Why, because there are some frameworks available which will reduce effort and cost?
Best iOS/Android cross-platform mobile game development SDKs:
There are two main Frameworks are available for 2D Game Development such as COCOS 2D and iTorque2D. iTorque2D Framework available on expenses. Whereas, COCOS 2D is Open Source and available for free of cost.
COCOS 2D :
Language: C & C++
Cocos2d framework is useful for 2D Games Development on iOS and Android. For its implementation; C & C++ Skills required. It has compatibility of open source Objective-C Library, the libraries and API’s for Cocos2d allow developers to easily use scene management, sprites, effects, particles, menus, and many more.
Unity 3D:
Language: JavaScript, C#, Python
Unity 3D is one of the greatest 3d Game platform tools. Unity 3D has the all-in-one programming and graphic creation tools for mobile, console, and desktop game publishing. The easy-to-use tools by Unity 3D integrate easily and seamlessly with each other.
As a small and medium indie developer, you can use Unity 3D license for free. Otherwise, on more than $100,000 turn over; team need to purchase license of Unity Pro.
This is the single framework which will provide console support with PS3, Xbox and Wii.
Now, Unity 4.0 Game Engine is officially released on this mid of November 2012. This being the first major release of the popular cross-platform game engine to support Linux. Aside from the Linux support, there's also support for Adobe Flash publishing, DirectX 11 support on Windows, and various other changes.
It will provide free motion captured animation on the Asset Store so that you can start making your characters move with lifelike fluidity.
