Gaming is a big industry and has a huge scope of scalability and earning huge bucks. Let us figure out some starting tips about before designing any gaming app.
- Understand Yourself
Just try to ask yourself first why you are entering in this gaming industry? What is your passion in the gaming world? What keeps you motivated and what are your strengths for this particular industry.
The SWOT analysis can give the answer to more details. It will not only help you to understand yourself from insights but you will also be able to understand the market and the competitors.
2. Market Research
You can better understand your users by getting insights into the marketplace. You have the option to explore the top games and trending games at Google play store from the various categories and genres. You will be able to get the vital elements while building your game.
3. Develop an Idea
The idea holds everything; it is a critical step for the foundation of any gaming app. You may have a brainstorming session with your team to generate that killer idea which can keep your users engaged for a stretched hour. A sound idea and a well-planned development of any game can make it an instant hit that you can later plan to blend it with VR(Virtual Reality) or AR(Augmented Reality)
The first step is to create the idea and the second step is to provide wonderful gameplay to gamers.
4. Create a Story
There must be a wonderful interactive story in your game. There should be characters, surprises, fun, rewards, etc, then gaming enthusiast will definitely love the gameplay experience. Just wrap your characters with the perfect well-defined story, let it drive them further, keep users inspired about your story and you will surely attract the new users.
5. Winning Design
This step may be a bit complicated, the designing team has to do a lot of imagination, living the life of their characters, arts and the overall feeling of the game. You need excellent graphics along with best user experience during gameplay. You should take your time for the definition of the best design for your game. It is a very important factor for the success of your game.
6. Identify Key Platforms
During designing and planning, you always need to keep your platform in mind whether you are going to launch your game at Google Play store or an App Store. You may also choose a hybrid model, but it will incur some extra costing to develop a game for multiple platforms.
7. Build a Monetization Story
Every developer wants to earn from his project, and so is a game developer. You too can make money by the below-mentioned methods:
Ads:
The pay per click model can earn you monetize your application. You will be paid for every click on the ad displayed. The ads may annoy your users so you need to be very careful. You can give your users an option for the ad-free version.
In-app Purchases
This is often considered as a freemium model, The users can purchase in the app for a certain reason, It is a very effective way of monetization and this even doesn’t annoy your users that much.
Premium versions
Users can go for the premium version once they have experienced the trial version or a demo. The payment is asked straightforwardly. High quality and well-settled games go for this model of monetization.
Pay-per-download
This strategy applies to every game that has a huge investment.
