How an app designer create games for smartphones

In the next decade, the mobile gaming industry, not just in London, but all over the world is predicted to be showing signs of higher growth more than its present value. Now it would be much easier for mobile application developers to create mobile games and other apps with software development kits or the SDK. SDK can be accessed by millions of customers in major platforms.

Right now, we are going to discuss on how an app developer design and create games for android phones. The following are the basic steps:

1)      Create a unique concept

The conceptual stage is the first step in creating any application and game. As for creating a game, a developer can still make one even if the programming skills are not that advanced. Proper planning and resourcefulness with the available skills, knowledge, and tools are good enough to create a mobile game. For amateurs who want to create their first mobile game in less than an hour, they can go to the Android help site for templates for apps and games which are free of charge. To be able to choose the best app, taking time to check and test them is highly suggested.

2)      Once the concept is finalized, the artwork would be the next. For tiles and backgrounds, the standard size for mobile game images for phones would be 128 x 128. For the characters and everything else for other miscellaneous and other effects, the size would be 16 x 16. The whole game needs to be not that big, therefore using less than 8 shades in each jpg file is needed to keep the size at minimum.

3)      Making a game play for new smartphone game would be the third step. So that you will not be caught with dead ends, for sure you want to maintain a very linear planning and designing process. One of the goals for your mobile game is to keep the player move into the end of the game yet allowing him to be flexible all throughout the game.

4)      You can now combine your art design with your game format and combine your engine with the use of visual basic (VB). Android SDK and libraries must be installed by this time. Go to the VB, open it and load the file that you created and immediately select quick compile J2ME. Games must be checked and tested first, once it is fully working and meets the expected outcome, it is now ready for the last step.

5)      Sign up as an android application developer in your Gmail account.  With signing up as an android developer, you will be able to upload your games and other apps to the android market and people will be able to see and download your apps. Set a reasonable price for your app. If your application is allowed to be sold, you will get to have dividends per week basing on the sales of your game. If you want people to try it for free, have it free together with the expiration date on the download, which is 60 days usually.

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