TRANSITIONING FROM DESKTOP TO MOBILE
81monkeys is a social and mobile game developer who released Sudoku Scramble, a two-player Competitive Sudoku game on mobile. They kindly wrote the following blog, which tackles the trials of mobile development.
This is the blog post that I wish I had read when I first transitioned to mobile game development. The following is an overview of the top challenges and solutions I faced developing mobile games in GameMaker Studio 2 having focused solely on PC games prior. This is about giving you an idea of what you’ll have to focus on when starting a mobile game project and starting you on the right path.
My background is not unlike most GMS developers. I first started using GM 5 in high school and had made a bunch of prototypes and PC games, before attending a game dev school. I landed my first job at an indie studio called 81monkeys. 81monkeys is a mobile game studio and they had already begun development of their first game, Sudoku Scramble. Sudoku Scramble is the world's first competitive multiplayer Sudoku game on Mobile. The biggest challenges we faced were,
81monkeys is a social and mobile game developer who released Sudoku Scramble, a two-player Competitive Sudoku game on mobile. They kindly wrote the following blog, which tackles the trials of mobile development.
This is the blog post that I wish I had read when I first transitioned to mobile game development. The following is an overview of the top challenges and solutions I faced developing mobile games in GameMaker Studio 2 having focused solely on PC games prior. This is about giving you an idea of what you’ll have to focus on when starting a mobile game project and starting you on the right path.
My background is not unlike most GMS developers. I first started using GM 5 in high school and had made a bunch of prototypes and PC games, before attending a game dev school. I landed my first job at an indie studio called 81monkeys. 81monkeys is a mobile game studio and they had already begun development of their first game, Sudoku Scramble. Sudoku Scramble is the world's first competitive multiplayer Sudoku game on Mobile. The biggest challenges we faced were,
- Creating a real-time online gameplay experience,
- Managing UI aspect ratios and screen sizes,
- Optimizing the game for mid to low-end devices,
- Creating tools to accelerate mobile game development,
- Implementing SDKs and developing extensions