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Mobile Game Design Essentials

You're reading from   Mobile Game Design Essentials Immerse yourself in the fundamentals of mobile game design. This book is written by two highly experienced industry professionals to give real insights and valuable advice on creating games for this lucrative market.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849692984
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Operating Systems – Mobile and Otherwise FREE CHAPTER 2. The Mobile Indie Team 3. Graphics for Mobile 4. Audio for Mobile 5. Coding Games 6. Mobile Game Controls 7. Interface Design for Mobile Games 8. Mobile Game Engines 9. Prototyping 10. Balancing, Tuning, and Polishing Mobile Games 11. Mobile Game Design 12. Pitching a Mobile Game Index

The mobile market


The success of any commercial project cannot arise with disregard to its reference market, and mobile games don't make exception.

We the authors, believe that if you are reading this book, you are aware that the mobile market is evolving rapidly. The Newzoo market research for the games industry trends report for 2012 states that there are more than 500 million mobile gamers in the world and around 175 million gamers pay for games and that the mobile market was worth 9 billion dollars in 2012 (source: http://www.newzoo.com/insights/placing-mobile-games-in-perspective-of-the-total-games-market-free-mobile-trend-report/).

The following screenshot represents the numbers of the mobile gaming market 2012 reported by Newzoo:

As Juniper Research, a market intelligence firm, states, "smartphones and tablets are going to be primary devices for gamers to make in-app purchases in the future. Juniper projects 64.1 billion downloads of game apps to mobile devices in 2017, compared to the...

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