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Coming Trends In Game Development

Coming Trends In Game Development

The game development business seems to become a bigger one with each passing year, in large part because there are always new ways to play, and new expectations among gamers. With each new device or software system, new possibilities emerge in gaming, and that means developers have to be ready for constant innovation if they want to keep up.

With that in mind, let’s look at a few coming trends in game development, which should be of interest to anyone interested in what makes video games tick.

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Image & Performance Capture

There was a pretty interesting article put out about the video game trends of the future, not necessarily in development, but in the industry as a whole. Two trends that were mentioned back-to-back were “groundbreaking graphics” and “personalized video game content.” Combining these concepts in a very general manner, we get the idea that some game developers are undoubtedly going to begin using expensive, high-tech tools to better simulate actual gamers’ motions and in some cases even how they look. Motion capture like that used in the movies can make character movement in games incredibly realistic (and in some cases specific to the user), and better and better camera and facial recognition technology could allow us to basically print ourselves onto video game characters. These are difficult challenges for game makers, but they’ll be met in the near future.

Cross-Platform Development

Thanks mostly to the ever-expanding app game market, we’ve grown used to seeing familiar titles re-released. That is to say, we might know certain mobile titles (think Bloons, or Plants vs. Zombies or Angry Birds) from browser arcades. In some cases, this happens because a game host hires a mobile developer to make a mobile version of a game. But in others, it’s thanks to cross-platform development. One site hosting some casinos games, which are the ones to have embraced this style of development early, made note that today, players using Android, iOS, and desktop devices are all treated to the best in modern gaming, with HD graphics across the board. This is often thanks to the use of HTML5 in development, which basically makes a single game compatible on these different platforms, without any re-design needed.

Augmented Reality

This one is arriving in a hurry. iPhone 8 will be here soon, along with iOS 11 and Apple’s brand new, incredibly exciting “ARKit” development system. Meanwhile, Google has recently announced its own tech to mirror these developments in the form of ARCore. Google has said ARCore will work with Java/OpenGL, Unity, and Unreal, which should make it easy for developers to design games the way they’re used to – but for augmented reality. ARKit is believed to be similarly seamless. Basically, these new tools are giving game and app developers the ability to design experiences in a familiar way, for an unfamiliar medium.

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