Tuesday 4 December 2012

Social Gaming is Revolutionizing Game Development

Playing games being just a time pass or a hobby has become a thing of the past. Games have become serious business these days. With the advent of social networking the game development arena has gained a new level of popularity.

The types of games which are played by various groups of people vary diversely and that has been a reason for the growth of this industry too. The variety it provides the masses is so wide and even then the scope does not seem to stay stale. The growing availability of free social games which can be used to interact with people from all over the world has made social networking even more enhanced. Apart from sharing personal information and status updates, people have started showing off their gaming prowess by sharing scores and game updates. This in turn helps in the marketing of a business through these games by creating awareness about the firm which has developed the game.

Though Social Gaming is very different from console gaming which has more functionalities according to the devices capabilities, these games also provide as much functionalities as it can. The space and limited bandwidth does not let these games to be developed by game developers with great special effects and sound effects. Initially the basic aspect which every game developer concentrated was on providing an appealing game play and story board. But this aspect kept changing as more and more people started using internet with better bandwidth and nowadays games with better user interfaces and effects are being developed by game programmers for the social media.

The popularity of these social games has been on the increase with the increase of the trend of people socializing through entities available in the internet. More than online discussion forums and chat rooms, social networking sites have become the attraction which has been highly effective. Today there is a base of almost a billion users to which each game programmer can develop a game for. The ways it gets reached to this mass depend on the efficiency of the game and the way it engages the audience. Apart from this people are able to connect with their real life friends through these games which get them closer than before. With the advent of Facebook people connect with each other even if they are thousands of miles apart but sharing their information of these games with each other evokes excitement in a different level.

Though these social games lack the luscious graphical proficiencies that console games provide, Facebook game developers are still trying to enhance the way games are being perceived by people in the social media. If these Facebook programmers find a way to blend intense user interface to these games then the whole scenario of gaming might be changed in a revolutionary way. 

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