How To Start With Mobile Game Development?

Many mobile app developers hide their desire to develop gaming apps for a variety of mobile platforms. Though a part of general mobile app development, mobile game development is totally different from it. Developing games for tiny hand-held devices may require an in-depth knowledge of programming and an extraordinary imagination power.

Developing mobile games can be a sea of troubles for starters. However, it offers immense experience to developers to learn about every aspect of designing and coding.

If you wish to try your hand at mobile game app development, this article explains about everything you might need at the beginning of the game development.

1. Choose the type of mobile game you wish to develop! There are numerous categories in game development to choose from. However, identify your target users before selecting it. You would be able to get enough resources and codes for game only after you decide on the type of it.
2. Choose the right programming language to develop mobile game of your choice. Generally, Brew and J2ME are two widely used languages. Try to get an in-depth knowledge about features, functionalities and mobile devices supported by programming language chosen by you. The selection of language should be according to 2D or 3D games.
3. Get familiar with mobile devices for which you are going to develop mobile game! Firstly, it is important to understand the features and functions of mobile device for which you are developing game. Try to get details about the type of processor and its response time, screen resolution of the device, size of the screen and image/audio/video format, supported by device. It will help you a lot while designing and making it more usable.
4. Firstly make a plan and draw rough sketches of the game. Try to find out whether it will work or not. Once you get a clear picture about the game, put it in action. Now, think about design and architecture of game engines.
5. Get reference from the game development forums and blogs to clear out any confusion.
6. Keep learning and updating yourself for recent game programming trends and tools! Get familiar with different aspects of game programming and keep a learning attitude to face any challenge during game development.
7. Last but not the least, don’t forget to test your game once you have completed coding and designing.

Keep in mind the above points for a superb mobile game development. Apart from these, one would need J2ME Eclipse, BREW, C/C++, Visual Studio, Python, Flash, Action Script, Macromedia Flash and emulator to test the game.

Best of luck for your mobile game development venture!