Friday, 9 March 2012

iPad Game Development and iPhone Game Development: Requirement Description Guide for Clients - Part 1

I have talked about this topic before, but it was in brief. This time I will provide more details about how to describe the requirement and how to shortlist the things that you will need to ask to the developers for deciding on the team and also to convert your game idea into reality, via iPad Game Development or iPhone Game Development. If you are new, I work in a well known Game Development company Morpheous and I share my experience with development and also with clients over here, so my experience can be useful to you when you make any development decisions and invest into one.

When you have an idea, you make sure you write it down, this will enable you to go through the raw idea in future if you lose your way in between, as especially when it is about objective of the game and story line. Once you write down your initial thoughts, you can then search some existing games and see if any of them matches what you want to get developed or if not see if it partially matches, this will provide you information on how they have executed the idea and also how the story line plays out. This will also give you an idea of overall representation of the game. iPad Game Development and iPhone Game Development can be an easy venture if you are quite clear of what you want and also have things in written format. Ensuring your objective and features of the game pass to developer on right note is very important, this will make sure that the journey of development will be smooth and also game will be delivered exactly as you want it to be.

To convert your idea into reality, describing idea will not be only thing that will be important but also what you want as graphics in the game is also as much important as the idea itself. iPad Game Development and iPhone Game Development heavily depend on the graphics and processing of the device. You need to make sure which type of graphics your game will consist of, 2D/3D? And also what type, like would it be like cartoons or are we talking about some serious gaming graphics? This is very important as making changes during the development or designing phase can cost you some money.

I will cover more information in my next article; I hope this initial info will be enough for you to understand the overall structure of requirement presentation for iPhone Game Development and iPad Game Development.

Monday, 5 March 2012

How to get your iPhone Application Development and iPhone Game Development done smooth?


I have been writing for iPhoneApplication Development and iPhone Game Development from some time now and almost covered all important topics in brief manner, but there are still some left such as how can you get your iPhone Application Development or iPhone Game Development project delivered on time and with the way you want from a developer company you have chosen. As most of you may know, I work in well known Game and App development company Morpheous and is very reputed one when it comes to taking care of their valuable clients and also people working for them. They allow me to write and share my experience with clients and also my knowledge for the mobile app development fields, well that's good enough environment to stick with.

So, how you get it done? Well, my first and most important advice about iPhone App Development and iPhone Game Development is that you need to be very detailed. The more details and clarity is there in the features and also the discussion of the features, the more understanding about the app or game you will have with the developer company. If all features are cleared and are understandable then the Company might be able to give you better timeline for the development and also the cost. Mentioning in my all previous article, please have the company sign NDA, so you can be sure that all intellectual rights, information, idea and data you share is protected by the law.

Make sure for iPhone Application Development and iPhone Game Development when you decide on any company, they provide you with regular updates on the projects. Updates may include images or video of the progress. Also make sure that updates are weekly and also include points of work done on that week, we at Morpheous provide the same services and this is one of the ways we avoid clients losing confidence or getting frustrated for not knowing the progress. Timelines do not always met, so do not worry about that, but make sure it does not becomes 2 times then what has been given to you, unless you have given changes in-between.

Make sure changes are as per you want or mutual, do not forget to listen to the developer company, because what they say might be important in a long run. I know the info is short and not much in detailed, but I hope that it will be useful to you for having healthy relationship with your developer company and also making sure you have smooth iPhone Apps Development and iPhone Game Development ride!!