iOS Game Development- Learn Design and Video Game Industry

About iOS Game Development:

iOS is one of the most popular Operating Systems in the world today when it comes to Smart Phones and Tablets. Alongside the growth of the sales and distribution of Smart Phones and Tabs what has taken the world by storm are the Mobile Applications that are getting developed by various Application Development companies. Among the Mobile Applications that are getting developed Gaming Applications are the most popular after the Social Networking Applications like Facebook and Twitter. Billions of downloads are happening worldwide of mobile phone games from the various Application Stores like Apple App Store and Amazon App Store and Android Marketplace. In the charged up situation like this, Mobile Gaming companies are raking in millions and billion dollars of revenue via in-App Purchases of various games that they are releasing to the market. In this competitive ecosystem of Mobile Gaming, it is important to have the constructive guided approach to Mobile Phone Game Development to design and launch successful games. So in this Game development course, you will be taught from scratch the various elements of gaming and how to monetise from them and how to draw a gaming proposal and build a team and develop and successfully market a Gaming Application for iPhones and iPads.

iOS Game Development Course Description

This dynamic course on iOS game development not only teaches you the basic coding concepts of iOS gaming but gives you a comprehensive ground-up view and holistic approach towards the concept of development of gaming applications for smartphones.

This in-depth course on the development of iOS Gaming Application has over 8 hours of lectures which has been divided into 5 main sections and 46 submodules. The sections are…

Section 1: iOS Game development Introduction

At the start of this module, you will get a complete introduction to Computer Gaming. You will learn about various aspects of a game and how games can be structured. How you can build a big career in the Gaming Industry will be explained here. You will be introduced to the world of Smart Phone gaming after this and you will also learn how to monetize the games. As case studies, you will be studying Candy Crush Saga and Flappy Birds games to understand what made them famous and what was the business model. Various aspects of game development like Game Design Concepts and Game Design Approach will be taught here.

Section 2: Game production Phases

In this section, you will learn who are the key players in the Gaming Production Team and what role you can play there. As part of the Production team, you also need to learn how to interact with the Art Team and things that you can expect from them and things that they are supposed to deliver to the Game Production Team. You will be taught how to do Quality Analysis and the Production Teams role in it. After the team roles, you will be given an overview of the various phases that are there in Game Development like Preproduction Phase, Production Phase, Agile Production Phase, and the Post Launch Phase.

Section 3: Game Design

Here you will be given a detailed overview of the Game Designing Process and what role Gdd plays in it. You will be lectured on Game Mechanism Discovery and Motivation. You will also learn about Game Mechanism Challenges and Collaboration. Here you will also learn about various Game Modes and Victory Mechanisms. How to develop Characters and Game Environmental Design and Sound and UI will be taught here. You will also be taught how to monetize your games in this module.

Section 4: Writing A Gaming Proposal

Here you will learn how to pitch to investors and company manages with a game development proposal. You will learn about Title and Concept Writing and be writing the summery One-Pager. You will be made at par with the present day Gaming Genres that are there. Other aspects of proposal writing like Gaming Premises, Gaming Mechanics, and Additional Deliverables will be discussed here.

Section 5: Introduction to Graphic Design

In this section, you will get an introduction to Graphics as required for developing games and what tools are required for designing. Two major aspects of game development that is gaming color principles and game design principles will be discussed here.

What are the requirements?

To undertake this course you need to have a basic understanding of Computer Programming. It is advised that you complete the iOS basic course and iOS social media integration course before you do this. You will need a Mac computer or iPad/iPhone to do this course alongside a good internet connection.

iOS Game Development Target Audience

This course is suitable for both IT professionals and students alike. Not only IT professionals, business managers can also undertake this course to understand how they can monetize their inventory and rake revenue from Mobile Phone Gaming.

iOS Game Development FAQs – General Questions

1. I am very new to this course so will it be difficult to learn it?

This iOS game development course has been designed in such a way that any person who wants to learn how to go about making a mobile gaming application can take this course up. More than coding what we have stressed here is how to approach a game development project with a help of a team.

1. What career can I build after learning this course?

Mobile phone gaming trend is reaching an all-time high when it comes to downloads that are happening every day to millions of handsets. This has helped in the creation of an ecosystem around iOS and Android where Gaming companies are releasing one game after another and raking in millions. This, in turn, is creating job opportunities which you can ride on.

1. Where can the concepts I learned in this training be applied?

The concepts that you will learn in this training will not only help you to create games for iOS phones only but will also help you to create games for Android and Windows mobile. You will be trained like game development team lead and a manager than a coder in this tutorial so these lessons can be used lifetime.

1. What is Candy Crush Saga

Developed by the Swedish company King Digital Entertainment PLC, Candy Crush Sage can be considered the most famous mobile games of all time. It originated as a browser-based game called Candy Crush and later it was incorporated into Facebook as Candy Crush Saga. Within a few years, it was released in each and every mobile phone platforms and it is said that it generates over 1 Billion Dollars in revenue per year via In-App Purchases. Its popularity has led to a major motion picture being planned under the same name by Universal Studios.

1. What is Flappy Bird

Flappy Bird is a Mobile Phone Gaming Application developed by the Vietnamese national Dong Nguyen. This game was simplistic in nature but was hard to play and was considered to be highly addictive. After its release, it became famous worldwide courtesy of simple gaming and less complexity and resulted in mil; lions of downloads. Nguyen developed the game over few days only as a counter to a more complex game called Angry Birds. Nguyen claims he was making close to $50,000 a day from in-app purchases when the game was available. Nguyen took the game down in 2014 as he felt its too addictive a game for users to play.

1. What is iOS SDK

iOSD SDK is a Software Development Kit for iPhones and iPads, released to the general public in 2008 for the purpose of developing Applications for iOS-based devices like iPhones and iPads. It also incorporates an iPhone simulator where developers can test the applications they made under an iPhone like GUI.

1. What is Facebook SDK

The Facebook Software Development Kit has been made publicly available for free to iOS Application Developers so that they can use Facebook Logins and Signups for their Applications. Other than giving users an option for Logging in with Facebook the SDK also gives the Application Developer an option to make another feature of the App available to its users, that is for sharing of content from the Application directly to Facebook, which helps in promotion of the Application

1. What is Twitter API

With the help of Fabric API which is a flexible mobile application development tool, Twitter API gives developers to integrate Twitter Account Log on into their Applications and also helps the Application used to share the content to Twitter and in effect promote their Applications. With the help of the Ads API, the Twitter API helps developers deliver 3rd party Advertising to their users.

1. What is an iOS App Store

iOS App Store is as an online iPhone and iPad Application Marketplace where Application Developers makes their Applications publicly available for download to iPhones and iPad. Apple Appstore is part of its iTunes platform.

1. What is iTunes

iTunes is a marketplace for downloading Audio and Video content from the iTunes store via iPhones, iPads, iPods and Mac OSx computers. Publishers can upload their content to the Apple Marketplace by paying their Membership Fees and make the content available to millions of subscribers worldwide.

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Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included