Mobile App Europe 2014 Notes

Responsive Game Design

Notes on a keynote by Jesse Freeman (Amazon Apps & Games) at the Mobile App Europe 2014.

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##Why Make One Game a Month?

1. Quickly explore and prototype ideas
2. Focus only on the core game mechanics
3. Learn to work under pressure
4. Find the motivation to complete a game
5. Gain experience from publishing a game

Jesse’s games: http://games.jessefreeman.com

##Amazon Mobile ###Amazon Fire Phone

• Dynamic Perspective
• Firefly

• use api for the metadata to use in your own api - what’s meant by that?

• 75% of apks work on Fire OS

###Amazon Appstore

• Fire Phone
• Fire HD/HDX
• Fire TV
• Amazon App for Android
• Mac & PC

Mobile Games

Classical responsive design does not work especially well for games

• Game graphics and UI support multiple resolution
• Game mechanics across multiple types of input
• Publish to multiple platforms with the same codebase
• Saved data is synced across all platforms

###Game Graphics and UI

• Mobile first
• Handling different resolutions -> understand aspect ratios 16:9 and 4:3
• Scale up/down from there

###Input

Virtual Joystick

###Single Code Base

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