What It Takes To Develop A Mobile Game From Scratch

Posted by Laxmikant Thipse on November 19th, 2018

In recent years, mobile gaming has boomed like never before. The credit goes to smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles. Unlike before, current smartphones and gaming devices are manufactured with high processors, gaming CPU and enough RAM to play games. But, do you know what it takes to develop a mobile game from scratch? What are the different stages involved in mobile game development process? In this article, you'll get to know about various significant factors like game design, game QA testing etc involved while making a game.

The first stage is the idea. When you think of building a mobile game, you must have an idea when a game is being described. You must be able to answer questions like who is the target audience, why would they play, what would encourage them downloading the game and many more. Coding and game QA testing are the later parts.

Next you have to develop the concept. It is a brief document containing a quick game overview and basic representation of four building blocks of every game i.e. game mechanics, setting, technology and interaction. Next is creating a game design document (GDD). It is created and collaborated by development and design team. The GDD includes underlying details of realization.

Later, prototypes are made. A prototype should include most of the important mechanics and resemble substantial parts of the game. Often players behave completely different to the designers’ expectations, this unexpected player behavior may even lead to the new ideas which can be more fun than the original ones. Therefore prototypes are used.

Design architecture and development is implemented right after creating a prototype. Design architecture helps development team to study and analyze a game. With the architecture already designed and prototypes created, the team should have no problems with the actual development. Various tools, software and programming language are used while developing a game.

The next stage is game QA testing. As soon as the first playable version of a game is released by developers, testing team should join the project and they use different testing strategies to verify its functioning. Later, the unfinished game is exposed to a narrow range of potential players to get the feedback about the gameplay and behavior of the game in the wild on a wide range of devices. Game QA testing is mostly used to test the performance and make final fixes and balance small tweaks. It is later followed by game support and modifications.

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