“Prhaps the most promising sign for innovative mobile gaming to come out of the Games Developers Conference was an emerging methodology of mobile games design”. Mobile games are growing up, and this is a great article on the angst and optimism that always accompanies such a happening. A couple of interesting notes:
- The International Games Developers Association has started up a Mobile Game Development Special Interest Group (MGD SIG), to “provide independent technology sharing, expertise and business advice for these folks who have to understand both new technologies and new business models”.
- One session examined the “Psychology of Small Screen Game Design,”…His points seemed intuitive, like his advocacy of marked visual contrast, but his words was well-taken after a demonstration of some licensed mobile and GameBoy games where you couldn’t discern the main character from the busy background.
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