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Top 15 Mobile Game Development Platforms, Engines & Tools in 2020

From the time when we used to play mobile games with pixelated graphics, negligible interactions, and a very simple playing mechanism, the mobile gaming industry has evolved to powerful, high-end games with superior-quality visual effects, carefully chosen interactions, outstanding storylines, marvelous storylines, and a relatively more complex game mechanics.<br><br>This transformation is caused due to the constant enhancement in the gaming industry and the emergence of technologies used for mobile game development. Currently, there are millions of games available and being played by millions of gamers across the world. And the count is growing each passing day owing to development and deployment ease. Though, it is making the gaming industry highly competitive where developing a successful and profitable mobile game has become a daunting task for mobile game developers.

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Top 15 Mobile Game Development Platforms, Engines & Tools in 2020

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  1. Best 15 Mobile Game Development Platforms, Engines & Tools in 2020

  2. From the time when we used to play mobile games with pixelated graphics, negligible interactions, and a very simple playing mechanism, the mobile gaming industry has evolved to powerful, high-end games with superior-quality visual effects, carefully chosen interactions, outstanding storylines, marvelous storylines, and a relatively more complex game mechanics. This transformation is caused due to the constant enhancement in the gaming industry and the emergence of technologies used for mobile game development. Currently, there are millions of games available and being played by millions of gamers across the world. And the count is growing each passing day owing to development and deployment ease. Though, it is making the gaming industry highly competitive where developing a successful and profitable mobile game has become a daunting task for mobile game developers.

  3. Key Elements To Consider While Building A Truly Successful Mobile Game Application • User Acquisition: The mobile game should be capable of capturing the attention of the target audience. • User Engagement: It should be capable of engaging the user and entertaining for a long period of time. • User Retention: The mobile game should have the capability of retaining the user device forever. • Any mobile game development company can attain the above-mentioned goals just by following these five key characteristics which confirm the success of a mobile game.

  4. Mobile Game Development Best Practices

  5. Create a Game Design Document • After finding a distinct game idea, it is necessary to create a game design document for your idea. This document will be descriptive and cover every single aspect of the game design. It is created and edited with the joint efforts of designers and developers.

  6. Prefer Cross-Platform Mobile Game Development • Choose to develop mobile games that can be accessed on almost all the popular operating systems likewise Android, iOS, and Windows. Since it will not only save your valuable time but also will reduce the consumption of efforts and money.

  7. Include Social Media Features • Social media is one of the platforms used nowadays for gaining traffic. You can use it for your mobile game to drive a lot of engagement and word of mouth publicity. So don’t forget to include social media features like login, invites/referrals, in-game chatting or calls, status updates, etc at the time of mobile game development.

  8. Perform Rigorous Game Testing • Rigorous testing of mobile games before its release plays a vital role in its success in the market. So once the first playable version of the game became available, ask beta testers to perform rigorous testing to find bugs, glitches, and fixes. 

  9. Best Mobile Game Development Trends

  10. Increased Use of AR and VR Technology • With games like Pokemon Go, we have already witnessed the use of AR technology in the mobile game industry. And in the coming future, we can see the extended use of VR (Virtual Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality) in the mainstream industry with the Machines, Ingress and others. 

  11. Beginning of Wearable Gaming • With time, wearable gaming devices are getting evolved. And there are huge chances we can observe the introduction of AR and VR technologies from mobile game developers. So that the users can get a quick to play, fully immersive gaming experience. 

  12. Increased demand for cloud-based games • The biggest USP of the cloud-based games is that they can be played without even downloading or installing its application. This feature of the cloud-games is attracting the game companies and freelance Game App Developertowards its development besides being a fresh concept in the market. 

  13. Multipurpose Mobile Games • In the current era, mobile games have become an integral part of everyone’s day to day life. This boosts the development of more and more games covering different aspects of daily life likewise, education, learning, lifestyle, health and more. The major objective behind the development of such multipurpose games is to educate and learn new things to the users.

  14. Multiplayer/Social Games • In the last few years, an increase is observed in the development of multiplayer mobile games due to internet availability across the world and the increased number of users on social media platforms. However, there are games that can also be played locally without any internet. Instead of the internet, such games use WI-FI, Bluetooth, infrared and similar other technology. 

  15. Location-based Mobile Games • Location-based mobile games are those which make use of localization technology like GPS or satellite positioning. Such mobile games use information like where you are, your exact location and movements as key components, unlike other mobile games. We will continue to see growth in this technology trend this year and the future ones.

  16. Best Mobile Game Development Tools

  17. Unity • Unity is a cross-platform mobile game development engine developed by Unity Technologies. It lets you develop top-notch quality 2D and 3D games for platforms like Android, iOS, Windows, and 24 other platforms. 

  18. Lumberyard • Lumberyard is a fully customizable cross-platform mobile game development tool developed by Amazon. It comes packed with several tools that let mobile game developers build AAA quality games most easily and quickly. 

  19. Corona SDK • Corona SDK is a lightweight cross-platform game development tool developed by Corona Labs. Using this framework, mobile game developers can build high-quality 2D for all major platforms like Android, iOS, Windows, and others. It is easy to learn and free to use software for individual developers or a mobile game development company.

  20. Unreal Engine 4 • Unreal Engine 4 is one of the most popular and widely used game development engines in the global market. In 2014, it won the title of the most successful video game engine’ from the Guinness World Records. 

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