Qualities That a Good Mobile Phone Game Should Possess
August 18th, 2009 | by AK-27 |Simple: Since most players are not computer experts but common subscribers, there won’t be a possibility for them to dig too much into playing skills. Consumers won’t be interested in spending couple of hours on researching how to get a 3-dollar manual game started. Keeping the game easy to play is the basic requirement.
Interruption: Multitasking is one of the basic characteristics of mobile lives. There are often time slots for mobile phone users between tasks, waiting for an e-mail or traffic for example. And games, calendar managing, communicating and work information accessing are all in one set, so a good game should be able to offer short term entertainment and allow users to make a good shift between games and work.
Subscription-based: The profit lies on its large volume of use. The initial development and programming of every game is expensive. What is important to a game inventor, if he wants to profit is that he uses one game engine to develop several or more games based on similar themes. It’s a good method of generate continuous profits with subscription-based games.
Rich community interactions: No matter how good the programming for a game is, it would make players feel bored as long as its fundamental mode is realized or all paths to victory are found. For a subscription-based game it is more beneficial to enable players to cooperate with other players so that more resources and competitiveness can be gained. Multi-player games with rich community interactions have already proved successful.
Using technical advantages of mobile phones: Large amount is incurred in R&D as money is invested in improving the usability and reliability of devices and network. Thus hardware devices and network protocol make a difference from the desktop/console world (i.e. GPS extension, bar code reader and SMS/MMS communication). A good mobile phone game can make full use of these advantages by upgrading their devices and network to remain compatible with the newest phones.