How to Guess the Cost of Developing a Mobile Game?

Technology is growing day by day with modern trend and people are becoming more demanding in nature to utilize something new. App development and game development is driving competition among the vendors and some companies who deals with game development. Games are part of fun and refreshment in leisure time but it is not very cheap to develop a game. Huge amount of cost is needed to develop a mobile game.

Cost of the game is determined by its type and category. If it is a simple and casual game then these are called premium games. Lack of finality and repetitiveness is related to these games. It takes less cost to develop such games. For example ‘Clash of Clans’ and ‘Candy Crush Saga’. Limited functionality using 2D graphics is featured in this game. The cost of a casual game is $ 50. For designing an ‘Angry Bird’ game $14 million is invested. So there is always a difference between costly games and casual games.

There are some social games which users play via Facebook. They are browser games which have limited data. Some tools are needed to design such games. Social network development kits like Facebook SDK are used to create these games. For example a social game application like ‘Farmville’ costs $100 to $300 thousand.

Games can be played through mobile apps, social networks and web browser.There are cross-platform games which can be played anywhere such as ‘Bubble Island’, ‘Slotomania’ and ‘Diamond Dash’. These games can be played in Face book, Android and iOS. These games may cost $300 thousand.

There are games often seen with complex graphics like shooters, puzzles and adventure games. However for designing such high graphic games cost increases its level. It is both time consuming and expensive to design these games like ‘Real Racing 2’. These games cost $ 2 million.

There are different other factors behind the process of game development. The main factor is vendor. It is a crucial decision to choose a right developer for business. There are certain stages of games production like prototyping, marketing research, UX/UI design, coding, editing and testing. The entire development services stages cost $60 to $100 thousand in a month which is given to the developer. An indie shooter like Tower of Guns (3D game) took 3800 man-hours and for developing the games it cost $230-570 thousand total. There are specialist who does coding and designing the character and the range of their price is $ 25 to $ 50 per man hour.

It is multilayered process to assist game with editor, artist and UI/UX designer. The artist of the game sketches the idea and characters. They also draw sceneries and textures. The lever editor develops architecture with segments like landscape and object. UI/UX designers improve the layout and feel of the game. The 2D can be changed by them into 3D by modelling. It needs special charge $50 to $150 per man hour.

Comprehensive marketing survey is defined to target audience and OS destination. Game development is in the hand of the vendor who can both revive and destroy the project. Proper idea and effective price is always required to develop a mobile game.

There are large number of game development companies who has to invest money on game developing tools and developer to make a game but at a same time they receives double profit when users like the game and download it. So game development companies should not fear to invest because at the end they will be the king of the market because mobile games are leading today’s market in a robust way.

Eclipse Technoconsulting Global (P) Ltd is also a leading game development company in India who invests requires money on designing and development of game for user’s satisfaction.