One of the trickiest challenges facing any software developer is figuring out how their coding will work across a variety of different platforms. So as a case study, here’s a few examples from the rapidly-growing world of gaming as to how a complex shoot-em-up, or even a simple game of online slots can be configured to great success on a a wide range of consumer devices.
A question of inputs
Wiimote-in-Hands
The way in which the individual physically interacts with a game has led to many software developers adapting a title accordingly. Whilst the traditional computer keyboard offers perhaps the most instantly recognisable gaming interface for most, since the arrival of consoles, there’s been an interesting extra test for gaming developers.
The introduction of revolutionary Wii controllers has been adapted in recent years in the growing mobile gaming world with the likes of Motion Tennis enabling the gamer to use their smartphone to mirror the movements of a player’s racket. Whereas the introduction of a new controller for the PS4 gaming consoles similarly opened a pandora’s box of opportunities and issues for developers.
Mobile applications
mobile-games
The arrival of mobile gaming technologies has led to an amazing range of options for developers. A string of gaming apps like Sniper Fury revealed the quick success that can be brought about through a successful implementation for iOS, Android and Windows devices.
Whereas sites like Mr Smith Casino offer a series of browser-friendly online slots games like Dead or Alive that one way or another are able to be easily accessed via the growing range of tablets, phablets, laptops and hybrids.
But even browser-based games makers face difficult decisions with Flash animation software looking to lose momentum compared to Java as a result of security issues and concerns raised by Facebook and Firefox.
Gaming futures
Oculus Rift Development Version
The fact that such issues exist exemplifies the rapidly-changing situation that faces gaming programmers. But with many developers being swift to pick up the latest Oculus Rift development kit, it’s clear that all our gaming futures are becoming increasingly virtual.
The Oculus Rift brand has gained a massive amount of success through its decision to allow independent developers to help the company realise the potential of the ground-breaking VR units.
And with even the tightly-controlled Nintendo corporation showing increased willingness to work with independent developers, it seems that whether it’s online slots or advanced VR experiments, the future is wide open for dynamic gaming programmers.
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