- The highlights from Gamasutra's Expert Blogs see industry notables write about diverse topics, including Facebook's new game policies, Kinect concerns, and the importance of randomness — and Gamasutra's Member Blogs highlights include the pacing of narratives, comparisons between games and film, and the problems with
the mobile game marketplace.
There are many reasons for Nintendo to start playing in
the mobile game marketplace, not the least of which is to increase interest in the game franchises that may bring consumers to their console products.
But Google Play has grown to the point where it's as strong
a mobile games marketplace as the Apple App Store.
Not exact matches
«Kindle Fire already has a well - integrated store front and
marketplace to distribute
mobile games.
It is expected that the graphics will be good and the UI should be easy to navigate, but it is unlikely it will truly compete with the high - end consoles already in the
marketplace (like the PlayStation 4)... but truth mbe told, most
gamers are probably just as happy to play big - screen adaptations of their favourite
mobile gaming titles as they are anything else.
The
games dominating the
mobile marketplace - still led by the seemingly evergreen Clash of Clans - are essentially training - wheels strategy
games.
This, in large effect, has contributed massively to the adoption of gaming by not just women, but everyone in general, as playing a
game has become as easy as picking up your phone and sparing a few seconds to download anything you'd like on the App Store, Play Store, or any other digital
mobile marketplace.
-- See It On
Marketplaces: Amazon Google Play Itunes Both Rollercoaster Tycoon 4
Mobile and RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch are good
games, however they don't evolve the series enough and they lack the amount of content that earlier
games in series have.
With the advent of
mobile apps and their respective
marketplaces on iOS, Android and others, it's become easy to have a place to sell your
game through digital distribution.
For the month of May, several new and existing titles climbed the Android
game charts, according to May's China
Mobile Games Market Monitor, a joint product of TalkingData and Newzoo reporting on the iOS and complete Android
marketplace in China.
When it comes to
mobile game clones, it's really just a horrible
game of human centipede, especially on the unmoderated Google Play
marketplace.
Mobile gaming is becoming a more dominant force in the
marketplace, with $ 30 billion in sales expected in 2015; but Nintendo, perhaps owing to its heritage as a toy and hardware producer, has been very slow to enter the app
marketplace, dipping its toe in with offerings like «Pokedex for iOS,» which merely provides information to help you play the actual Pokemon
games on the company's handheld devices.
The arrival of the Apple iPhone created a stable
marketplace for the previously chaotic
mobile gaming sector, the release of new development applications like Unity, GameMaker and Twine meant that people didn't need to know how to code to make
games, or spend months — even years — developing their own graphics engines.
It helped spur far more independent
game developers to release
games for
mobile, Steam, and consoles, and for
marketplaces to be more accommodating to indies.