Best 5 Games in android you must try before everyone else

By ChicMic 12:13 pm

From a basic arcade game to a full fledge MMO, the mobile market is crowded with android games from various different genres. A lot of mobile app game developer were risen in the last five years and they have been flooding the mobile game market since then with many innovative and interesting games which has been catching the attentions of users across the world.

Still not everyone will be willing to play every game in the market. Each and every player has his/her own favorite game genre/type, they will always try to find those particular game genre’s/types in the market. For example, MMO players will not prefer to play board games and vice versa.

But, there would be some games which will hold the capacity to transcend the target audience and entertain everyone. Those type of games will always find their way to top of the market. Let us take a look at few good games on android play store.

Ludo Game:
Ludo is based on the classic board game which we used to play in our past. It’s also one of the top trending games of play store developed by ChicMic and published by Nazara.

Bluff Master (420) I Doubt it:
This is based on the classic card game I doubt it/cheat carefully designed to give the same rich play experience digitally.

Blocks Multiplayer:
This is an arcade 3D game with simple one-touch controls featuring live multiplayer and endless gameplay.

Fun Soccer:
This is a level based 2D puzzle game with exciting game elements and unique goal techniques.

Agent Smith:
This is an action packed adventure featuring full 3D graphics with loads of twisty spy action and puzzles.

Anyone interested in developing a game would need to get in touch with mobile app game developer like ChicMic. Please give us a Call on (+61) 390-135-390 to discuss your unique game ideas while choosing between unity and Cocos 2D for your game.

Exploring Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

By ChicMic 10:31 am

With a myriad of mobile devices with different operating systems, it is not possible for any business to focus just on one OS (operating system). Businesses need to consider at-least the mobile OSs which have majority devices in the market. This comes down to 2 mobile OSs – iOS and Android which together have more than 99% of smartphone OS market.

With this as the need of an hour, the mobile app developers are focussing on developing cross-platform mobile apps. So, what are cross-platform mobile apps? Cross-platform apps are based on ‘Write Once Run Anywhere’ philosophy and ideally run on different mobile OSs with a single codebase.

To explore cross-platform mobile apps further, these are of 2 types:

1) Native Cross-Platform Apps
2) Hybrid (HTML5) Cross-Platform Apps

Native Cross-Platform Apps

In order to ease the development of mobile apps using mobile OS, each OS vendor provides with its own SDK (Software Development Kit). These SDKs expose functionality in the vendor preferred programming languages like Objective-C/ Swift for iOS and Java for Android. The apps created using these programming languages using the official SDKs are called native apps.

This means that developing apps for different OSs means writing code from scratch for each of these OSs. This poses a great challenge to the turnaround time and third party vendors have tried to solve this by writing a unified SDK on top of the OS vendor specific SDKs in a unified programming language of their choice. This unified SDK handles the intricacies/differences of the vendor specific SDKs and hides this from the app developers using this unified SDK. The app developer writes a single codebase using this unified SDK in a unified programming language and the apps developed using this unified SDK are called Native Cross-Platform Apps. Since the app developed finally uses the native APIs, native cross-platform apps are nearly as performant as native apps.

The best and upcoming Native Cross-Platform framework is React Native which is built by internet giant Facebook and is now open-sourced for the community to extend it. Thousands of apps are built using React Native including Fortune 500 companies and hot new startups. Some of the apps that have been developed using React Native are Facebook, Instagram, Airbnb etc.

Hybrid (HTML5) Cross-Platform Apps

All OS SDKs include advanced browser component (Web View) to leverage the popularity of HTML5 and to aid the web developers to develop HTML5 based web apps. This has led to the birth of Hybrid Cross-Platform Apps. Third party vendors have created frameworks each of which has a native container to access native platform features and a WebView to execute HTML5/JavaScript. In effect, the Hybrid Cross-Platform Apps are developed using HTML5/JavaScript/CSS and access to the native OS specific functionality is provided by the Hybrid Application Framework.

One of the examples of Hybrid Cross-Platform Framework is Apache Cordova which was originally called PhoneGap.

Services we offer

At ChicMic, we offer both Native Mobile App Development for iOS & Android and Cross-Platform Mobile App Development using React Native. Our clients range from startups to large enterprises and we offer complete development from idea till launch and iterations there-after. We offer the following mobile app development services:

Cross-Platform Mobile App Development (React Native)
Cross-Platform Mobile Game Development (Unity and cocos2d)
Native iOS App Development
Native Android App Development

Contact Us:
www.chicmic.in

Importance of User Experience in games

By ChicMic 11:03 am

In the video game industry, there have always been debates on one primary topic, “What is the most important element in a game?” Most of the people say it’s the gameplay, some say it’s the graphics, sound effects or the story. But what everyone misses to realize is that the players always play games for an experience. So, the primary goal of any game should be to deliver a good user experience.

May it be gameplay or graphics or sound effects or story unless and until the game is not able to simulate an experience for the player, it cannot be successful in the market. There are lots and lots of video games available in the market but not every game is well known to the players. Only the games, which gave a unique experience to the players, are remembered. “Prince of Persia” a game developed by UBISOFT is the best example; even after a decade people still remember the game and expect a new version.

AAA games always focus on pure player/user experience and they hit the market hard and also make good revenue. But when it comes to mobile games it becomes tough to simulate an experience for the player. People just open the game for a few minutes and then get back to their routine. Some mobile game developers focus on delivering the user experience and take over the market with a bang. Glu Mobile, Supercell are some of the leading studios who primarily focus on emulating the experience of a console game on the mobile.

Recently Niantic Labs launched “Pokémon Go” using Augmented Reality, which broke all the records in a number of downloads, daily active users and revenue just because the game was trying to give the best user experience. In this game, the player has to move around in the real world to catch Pokémon’s using GPS location tracking. There is no special gameplay or story but the game was enjoyed by the players and appreciated.

This game is proof that if you can deliver the best user experience in real-time, players will love to play your game and even spend on it without second thought.

Tag: Mobile Game programming