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Mobile game market:

The mobile gaming market is growing very fast and it will capture the market of pc games soon. Day by day, game developers are increasing in this field because of the increasing mobile phone users all around the world.

Mobile Game Porting:

Why the term porting did come into mobile game development field? The main reason was the number of mobile phone models, mobile phone manufacturers and different languages for mobile device. A new developed mobile game's market depends on the number of models covered as the target customers are huge when covering a large number of mobile models. The following are the types of ports which are usually undertaken by developers.

Type of porting:

? Platform porting

? Porting into different mobile phone models

? Localizations porting

? Different carriers porting

Platform porting

There are two main platforms for mobile devices which most developer concentrate are J2me and Brew. Most developer use J2ME as the number of models that support this platform is very high when compared to the other. Brew and Python come next in this list. If a developer wants to develop an applications or games and release it world wide then they will have to port it to other languages for covering all markets.

Porting into different mobile phone models

Mobile phone models are increasing day by day, and developers keep added them to their database for porting. Since customers who buy new mobile models buy more games, most of new models are the first target for developer.

Localizations porting

The term localizations porting mean changing the language in the application or game. For Example Chinese market which is considered the biggest market for mobile games, sell only Chinese ported models. Meaning, the text in the application or the game should be in their local language. Many other countries prefer such kind of localizations as the target customers prefer these languages.

Different carrier porting

There are different carriers each have a different terms and conditions to the mobile applications and mobile games. The carriers decide what devices it supports and what data services are offered to its subscribers. Carriers only support a specific platform like J2me or BREW. The most important choices to make at the beginning of the development process are on which mobile software platforms this game should run.

Methods of porting:

? Internal porting

? Outsource the mobile game porting

Internal Porting

If the developers do the porting then they have strong relationship with carriers and device manufacturers around the world for needed to ensure the availability of the necessary information. The global testing facilities are needed to be able to load applications onto the actual devices and test them. The frequencies and network protocols of wireless networks in various parts of the world often differ from a local network. In internal porting they will cover only some number of mobile models.

Outsource the mobile game porting

The main reasons for outsourcing the mobile game porting are given bellow:

1. It is highly reduce the cost of the products.

2. Porting into large number of mobile phone models.

3. Non Risky field.

4. Time management and quality control.

5. These works are doing by experts of this field.

For these benefits the mobile game developer's or application developer's products would be cover the hole world marketing very easily and quickly.

Make A Mobile Game

? Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game Development

? Advertising/Promoting Through Mobile Games

Promoting Cinemas/Movies Through Mobile Games

Advertising New Products Through Mobile Games

? 3d Real World Scenario Mobile Games

Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game Development

The 3rd generation games with AI computer players are getting outdated today and the global multiplayer is getting its value. For this reason Online Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game Development is introduced, where players play against many other people around the world with their mobile phones. Definitely in a few years massive multiplayer mobile games will hit the market like the PC game scenario. Today, there is very little number of global multiplayer mobile games available in the market like Find4 by Smackall.com.

Interactive Server

This Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game is using the GPRS connection for the networking with a central server acting as router. It is almost the same as Nokia’s SNAP technology. This trend will soon get popular around the mobile game players. Smackall.com has developed the Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game SDK for FIND4 game. A customize SDK and the server is now available for sale.

Advertising/Promoting Through Mobile Games

Advertising and promoting a product is totally getting changed to new concept. Consumer product based companies are advertising their products through the PC games and with other entertainment products. As the mobile gaming have a very market and the advertisements reach very closer to the customers. It is very helpful for mobile game developer to make their games cost effectiveness and earn big revenue from them.

Promoting Cinemas/Movies through Mobile Games

Nowadays, film promoters look for publishing their cinemas/movies through other entertainment Medias. For this reason many producers and film makers come up for developing a game based on the movie. This type of publishing or promoting will reach the right customer and the right age group which the film is aiming at. So that today’s film directors are promoting their films through the mobile games with the help of custom mobile game developers. Games are developed based on the characters from the movie. These types of games will reach the customer soon and bring a good result as the character is familiar and the game story resembles the one they are impressed on.

Advertising New Products through Mobile Games

Mobile Game Development is moving towards advertising market to make it cost effective and earn more revenue from each game. Some consumer product based companies have started investing on games. For example a famous painkiller in India has advertised on a mobile game in which they player uses their product for injuries. This type of advertising has become familiar in mobile game industries today. Soon there will be running displays in the bottom of the screen to hold advertisements and flash news.

3d Real World Scenario Mobile Games

Today in mobile game development there is lot of restrictions and minimal resources available for game development, like CPU and memory in the device. The mobile gaming industry has just reached 3D gaming and soon there will be real world scenario games on mobile phones.

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Vishnu Sankar has sinced written about articles on various topics from Phones. Vishnu sankar, mobile game developer from Smackall.com an Indian based mobile game development company. Smackall.com provides high quality of customized mobile games and mobile applications. We have recently released our multiplayer mobile game SDK. For f. Vishnu Sankar's top article generates over 480 views. to your Favourites.

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