Gaming Apps: The Engines that Drive Consumption in the App Industry!

Back in the late 80s or in the early 90s, if someone had said that there will be a time in the future when everyone will be playing on their handheld mobile phones, it would have been dismissed as a figment of imagination that was highly unlikely to turn into a reality. However, fast forward 20 years and you would find that the scenario we described has become commonplace. Today, smartphones pack enough power to run mobile games that are rich in graphics and gameplay. How did this even come to be?

• The Past:
  Whoever came up with the idea of putting up a small screen on mobile phones set in line a chain of events that would lead to the gaming revolution! From merely displaying dialed numbers, the screen gradually grew in ability to display text initially, then imagery, and finally run simple animations. This led to innovative designers coming up with crude games such as Tetris and Snake which are to date some of the most popular games ever played on the small screen.
• The Present:
  In 2007 Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone with its multitouch. This single moment set off an arms race in the mobile gaming industry where the demand of gamers actually pushed the innovation in the display of smartphones and their graphics processing capabilities. With the proliferation of Android devices, gaming has become a multibillion-dollar industry with hundreds of Android app development teams across the globe specializing in game development. Today, we have games like PokemonGO that do not merely use the smartphone screen but also incorporate technologies such as Augmented Reality to draw out gamers into the real world and interact with it.
• The Future:
  Virtual Reality is the key area of research in gaming where smartphone screens are being used to create a virtual world with 360° degree renditions. This is a massive step towards creating realistic vistas that blur the difference between the artificial and the real realm. This also has a cascading effect where spin-offs from the technology can aid in other areas such as research, education, medicine, architecture etc.,

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