Game Development
Today’s gaming market is having number of popular platforms like PC, Console, handheld devices and many more. In fact, you can even do game development for digital drawing boards such as bamboo/wacom very own app store! If we talk about a specific platform having greater number of users than any other platform, its always going to be a mobile phone. The reason for that is simple, everyone needs and wants a mobile phone and it isnt like the old days when children got it around age 16 or later, now there are children from 6 that has mobile phones and enjoy gaming. In fact, the number of mobile phone owners is few times bigger than the total number of other platform owners. Keeping the numbers in mind, mobile game development is taking speed worldwide. Mobile games have come a long way from being a simple pastime to becoming multi-dimensional, competitive gaming with cutting-edge technology. One we intend to take advantage of while we expand to other platforms, the more areas one can cover the more revenue sources one gets!
FATCOW GAMES AS offers number of specialized services in field of gaming and mobile game production is one of them. We deliver high-quality game production including graphic design, character development, programming, level design and quality assurance/game testing.
Mobile Games Porting
What is Porting in the first place? Porting is changing the software of your choice to run on a different devices or technology. For example porting your iOS game over to Windows Phone. When it comes to mobile game development, porting is the most daunting phase to undergo where the game has to run on different kind of devices/phones and keeping it up to date for new devices that are coming around the corner. Porting is also a strategic and economically important move to ensure extra revenue before moving onto a new project. It is ALWAYS quicker to port a game then it is to start a new project, so we always recommend trying to port your game to another device. We can help with that as we do game development as well and understand the difficulty of other developers, so let us help you do it right the first time.
So FATCOW GAMES offers a cost-efficient porting solutions, enabling developers to port their games and applications to a wide range of handsets, cost-effectively and efficiently.
Apart from designing and developing mobile games, FATCOW GAMES AS also offers efficient porting services across a broad range of devices and operators ensuring your game/application’s wide reach.
All ported builds are tested to ensure the application’s compatibility and functionality with the actual device.
- Cross Platform Porting
- Device Porting
- Localisation
- Testing & QA
- Wide range of handsets covered
Mobile Games Testing
So what is mobile game testing? Another important part of developing a game or even application is to ensure there are no crashes or troubles for players. It isnt enough to test it on emulators because not all devices have emulators. Regardless of the emulators, the testing need to happen on a real device
Testing a mobile application or game is mandatory to ensure, there is no crash or inconvenience for players. To test a game, it is not enough to do it on emulators and not all devices have emulators. Testing a game on real devices is not possible for all developers. FATCOW GAMES AS provides a cheap mobile application testing service. We provide standard reports on each device test but we do not give gameplay feedback or design improvements, such agreement must be done separetly and is more expensive and time consuming. In such scenarios a cooperation would be more suitable.
That means from our past experience in mobile game development, emulators shouldnt be trusted at all. Most leading publishers and developers go for real device testing for their mobile games. FATCOW GAMES AS offers a cost effective real device testing with support and gives a Quality Assurance (QA) service for mobile game testing.
- Crashes
- Issues with collisions
- Verifying the game controls
- Testing the game’s stability
- Ensuring correct scoring
- Validating the performance of games
- Game’s readiness for release
