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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

Software to create game graphics

The following software are used for creating the game graphics:

  • Photoshop: When dealing with image editing tasks, Photoshop is universally considered the best available software. It can work with and export to any kind of image format, it offers the largest selection of tools to edit images and an endless number of tutorials are available on the Internet to learn anything you may need to do with it.

    All this power, on the other hand, comes at a price. The full Photoshop C6 license costs $699!

  • DeBabelizer: Photoshop is not the only choice, naturally. Other options are available. One that may be not popular but which is very good, especially for compressing images, is DeBabelizer (http://www.equilibrium.com/debabelizer/). It is an image editing software with almost the same capabilities of Photoshop, but it creates lighter *.png files.
  • GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP): Another interesting possibility for those who follow the path of open source software is...
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