Mobile App Development / Game App Development

Posted by on Feb 18, 2012 in Technology To Lower Your Phone Bill | 0 comments

So you want to develop a mobile game app huh? Well this article will describe in great detail how the process works and the steps necessary to create and market a success mobile game app. So let’s get to it.

The first and most important step in developing a mobile game app is to research the idea. Decide what category your game falls into such as: tower defense, arcade, puzzle, and etc. Next story board your idea so that development company has a good firm understanding of the concept of your mobile game app.

Second, when you select a company to develop a mobile game app you need to know you they employ, where are the employees located, do they have a real office where you can meet to discuss your mobile game app project. Finally what is the company’s success rate?

Next you will need to sit down with that company and story board you project with a designer and a coder. Its important to have the right people involved from the get go. Then you will want to set milestones for your game app so that progress can be made and the game can come to fruition. There are a lot of mobile game app developers out there but there are few that can develop your app, market your app, tweak your website along with SEO to help get your app out to the masses.

Next is a list to review and follow:

1. Which platform?

The obvious choice is the iPhone! But before you dive straight into to developing for the iPhone just because your CEO has one, consider the other smartphone platforms and if they might make more sense for you:

BlackberryPalm PreWindows MobileSymbianAndroid

Apple is is certainly dominant, holding about an 18% share of the smartphone market and with an app store that eclipses the competition both in terms of catalog size and number of downloads.

In fact with more operators now selling the iPhone and the imminent release of the iPad we can expect to see Apple’s dominance and growth rate continue to increase. But before you rush to build the iPhone app, consider your customers. If they are mainly business users then you may have more Blackberry than iPhone users. If you’re not sure, consider polling your customers to find out. This is also a good chance to ask them if a) they want a mobile app and b) what functionality they want from it.

2. One step at a time

Don’t run before you can walk. Build for one platform first, release it and measure its success. Get the first platform right before you think about building more. Just because Amazon has apps for iPhone, Android and Blackberry doesn’t mean you need do.

3. Don’t rush

Even if your competitors already have an iPhone app, don’t get pressured by your execs into rushing your app. Make sure you have developed the feature set that will excite your customers and make your app resident on the home page of their phone. If you mess up with the firsst release and deliver a poor experience or worse, a slow or buggy app, not only will you damage your reputation with your customer base, but they will remove the app as quickly as they added it and you will lose your chance to impress them with later releases.