5 Mobile Game Design Tips For Indie Developers To Keep In Mind
With the unprecedented rise of mobile gaming and its ease of production and distribution, more and more independent developers are looking to enter the fray. However, because of their haste to take a bite out of the money cake, some developers spend significantly less time in the actual design process. Nevertheless, if you’re an aspiring game developer hoping to make a mark in the industry, do yourself a favor and keep these five things in mind. It will save you the trouble of continuously backtracking to the drawing room. 1. Keep The Interface Clean Not everyone owns an iPad or other big-screen tablets. So the complicated menus and icons that populate every corner of the screen, which look organized in larger devices, may not be as pretty on a smartphone. This is a common problem in strategy games (although to be fair, strategy games do require a lot of navigation). Having too many “buttons” onscreen may cause accidental presses, too, which could mean the differen...