game development
True Visionaries In The Gaming Industry (Pt.2)
Making a video game isn’t a one man job, well at least making a good one isn’t. Everybody from the director all the way down to game testers, play a crucial role in determining how good or bad the game will turn out. All these people work together toward a common goal, which is to make a game that leaves an impression on gamers across the world, achieving success in both critical acclaim and sales. However, there usually is one person who leads the development of a game or of the industry in general. Their vision is what pushes the rest to work toward a goal. It’s hard to come up with a brilliant idea, but it’s harder to convince others of the same. It takes a lot of courage and belief in an idea for one to rise above the rest and see that idea through till its completion. But it is becaus...
True Visionaries In The Gaming Industry (Pt.1)
Making a video game isn’t a one man job, well at least making a good one isn’t. Everybody from the director all the way down to game testers, play a crucial role in determining how good or bad the game will turn out. All these people work together toward a common goal, which is to make a game that leaves an impression on gamers across the world, achieving success in both critical acclaim and sales. However, there usually is one person who leads the development of a game or of the industry in general. Their vision is what pushes the rest to work toward a goal. It’s hard to come up with a brilliant idea, but it’s harder to convince others of the same. It takes a lot of courage and belief in an idea for one to rise above the rest and see that idea through till its comp...
Facebook’s Vision For Virtual Reality & Gaming
While the time of Farmville and Words with Friends invites might be over, but Facebook is once again indulging in the economy of online gaming. This time around it’s going to be simple. The “secret ingredient” or the key is the log-on-with-Facebook feature which allows publishers who use it to accept Facebook ads and as Facebook’s ad revenue grows, so does the revenue for the gaming companies. It’s a win-win situation! Over the past five years, Facebook has invested $8 billion to its developers, a major chunk of this amount was palmed off to game developers. In the year 2015, game developers who used Facebook tools for web alone earned $2.5 billion. If this isn’t enough, even the number of people who play games on or with Facebook has increased from 375 ...
Super Monkey Fun: Developer Interview With Kunal Joshi
With Virtual Reality starting to come to its own, it’s great to see Indian game developers releasing some exciting VR games. At the forefront is Super Monkey Fun, who has already released multiple titles with VR support, the latest of which, called Silent Home, was a big hit with over 50K downloads. We caught up with the talented studio, comprising primarily of the Kunal and Jayati, and they tell us their thoughts on gaming and game development. Gaming Central: Tell us a bit about yourself 🙂 Super Monkey Fun: “Super Monkey Fun” is the brainchild of two young minds Kunal Joshi & Jayati Khulbe. Super Monkey Fun was founded in 2013. Kunal, is a computer science graduate. Kunal has a sound technical knowledge in the gaming space that helps in building great products lik...