Top 5 Reasons To Learn Game Development

Posted on Jul 9 2014 - 9:18am by Chirag Leuva

Game Development

The fun glitches of computer games have never been thought so big and enterprising as they are now. With the mobile devices overlapping the traditional computers game playing on the go has never been so simple. Moreover, most advanced dedicated gaming hardware and gaming consoles are also made gaming experience better than ever. If these are the factors that revolutionized gaming experience then obviously these correspond to the huge business scopes and other benefits associated with game development. Here below we will introduce top 5 reasons to learn game development.

Game Development offers Huge Business Opportunity

As per the latest available statistic global gaming industry stands at a figure close to $100 billion till the end of 2013. As per the reports published by Gartner from $79 billion in 2012 the gaming industry is expected to reach $115 billion or higher within 2015. These statistics show what a roller coaster growth gaming is supposed to experience in the near future. With the increasing number of gaming friendly devices and most advanced gaming consoles hitting the market, all factors go in favor of this growth. Today, a successful game offers a quick million within just a week of its release.

Games make it Easier to reach huge number of Mobile Users

There are approximately 1.5 billion PCs in the world and on the other hand as the accelerating trend indicates, by 2015 there will be more than 3 billion Android users and taking the figures from other platforms it will be another billion more. Games and gaming apps sold on Apps Store of any service provider outnumbers other apps by a fairly unachievable margin. These numbers and trends indicate towards the connection between mobile devices and popularity of gaming apps. So, developing gaming app can be one of the effective means to reach the mobile users.

Increase Your Skill Set through Game Development

For a coder the skill set required for game development extends far beyond the gaming apps. Through game development you can give a boost to your skill set and learn a lot of new aspects particularly important for today’s touch enabled interfaces and advanced gaming environment. Definitely these skills and competencies are going to add new feathers to your professional resume. More number of companies are looking for talented coders conversed in C++, HTML5, CSS, DirectX and Mobile coding skills and by developing games you can only increase your skill set or tune them as per the expectations and demands.

Working with Cross Platform Gaming Engine

For instance, both Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 are written as cross platform gaming engines and this makes it easier to perform your developing task. This makes it simpler to code for a wide variety of consoles whether for developing 3D games or 2D games, whether for consoles or PCs or for mobile platforms. Gaming engines offer a stronger, faster, agile and flexible game development experience for the coders.

Learn to Deal with Hacking, Glitches, Loopholes and Codes through Game Development

Once you are a regular or frequent gamer more than just enjoying the thrills of fight, race or other fun you would be taking interest in hidden tricks gradually. Similar things happen with a developer as well. While developing game one learns inside tricks to dodge security, smart glitches and hidden loopholes to get through and knows how to use coding to offer more usefulness.

About the Author

Chirag Leuva is a CEO of an iPhone app development company named Yudiz Solutions; where he works to bring client ideas to reality. He enjoys pushing the limits of user interaction and finding ways to create awesome reusable components within a mobile environment.