Mobile Game Development: A Survey on the Tecnology and Platforms for Mobile Game Development
This paper presents a resume of the most popular game mobile development platforms and their characteristics, and presents the current top of the edge characteristics of mobile phones that can be used for designing games.
Abstract
Games for mobile phones have many constraints. Most of these constraints are mainly because of its hardware, like the size of screen, processing power and buttons layout. Because of this, game designers and developers must address those constraints when developing for those platforms. On the other hand, mobile phones have some unique characteristics, when compared to PC hardware, which can be used to make unique game: like location based games, voice based games, camera based games, and touch based games. This paper tries to aid the mobile games designers and developers by presenting the current top of the edge characteristics of mobile phones that can be used for designing games. Also, when developing for mobile phones there are many different platforms that the developers must address, this paper presents a resume of the most popular game mobile development platforms and their characteristics.