Best Tools For Mobile Game Development

It is rare to find someone who to this day has not played a video game throughout his life and it is likely that you have wondered how mobile game app development is carried out.
The platforms from which these video games can be played range from game consoles, computers, or laptops to mobiles, tablets, and even smartwatches.
In this sense, video game development should be oriented to the platform / s for which we want users to play.
In this article, we will see the main tools for video game development and we will differentiate between tools for beginners and for advanced developers.

The video game market is one of the commercial sectors that is currently growing the most.

In this sense, there are more and more people and companies looking to create and develop video games for their subsequent commercialization.

For the creation and development of a video game, a lot of programming knowledge as well as design and animation are normally required.

However, there are tools that offer environments in which to get started in the world of video game development in a simpler way.

Next, we are going to differentiate between tools to start in the world of video game development and tools for people with advanced knowledge.

Tools for initiation in video game development

Currently, there are tools that do not require coding and that allow people with less knowledge in programming to choose to create their own video game.

To do this, they include a development environment with a simple interface in which, by dragging and dropping, with events and with a graphical editor, they can manage the development of video games.

Here are the ones that, in our opinion, are the best known and most functional today:

Gamemaker

It is one of the most used and known tools in video game development. Its environment is based on the management of events and logical triggers.

It is intended for people with a little more programming experience. It has a large community that gives support and therefore you can find documentation and help throughout the development process.

It allows the creation of video games for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac. It is a very powerful environment since we can create almost any type of game. 

Stencyl

This development environment is primarily intended for creating Flash-based and 2D games. It has a more visual aspect than GameMaker.

Initially it was called StenylWorks but it was decided to shorten the name.

On the website of this tool, you can find a lot of information, tutorials, and examples of games that have been created with this development environment.

One drawback is that in order to bring the game to Android and iOS the licenses are sold separately, even though the tool is free.

GameSalad

It has a drag-and-drop visual graphical interface and a huge built-in library for behavioral, physics and other very interesting functions that aim to facilitate the creation and development of video games.

In the free version, you can create games and publish them for the web and iOS, while the professional version allows you to price games and publish them for the Google Play Store (Android) and Windows.

RPG Maker

This environment is designed, as its name suggests, in the creation and development of RPG-type video games (role-playing video games) without the need to know programming.

It is based on an event system. It has a graphical interface where the development tools are placed at the top of the screen and are very well organized.

On the website, you can find technical support, examples, and various forums about this tool.

GDevolp

It is a tool for creating 2D games and the code is free. You can create video games for Windows, Linux, and also for the web by using HTML5.

It has a very easy-to-use drag-and-drop visual interface.The peculiarity of this environment and what makes it a very interesting tool is the handling of events since we can apply logic to our video game without knowing how to program thoroughly.

Advanced tools and environments for game development

On the other hand, there are also several development tools and environments for people who have knowledge of video game programming, design and animation.

These tools allow for higher quality results and a more professional finish. They are used by professionals in the sector.

Here are some of the tools and environments for developing video games at an advanced level:

Unity 3D

It is a tool widely used by professionals in the video game sector for the creation and development of their games.

It is considered by most professionals as the best tool to create and design a video game.

It allows you to create games for any platform (specialized in 3D). Can be integrated with C # language.

It has a very large library with documentation.

Video game development is done from scratch and licenses are usually more expensive.

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It is the direct rival of Unity 3D. It’s free software

It has a multiplatform framework that allows the creation and development of videogames in various programming languages.

It can be programmed for almost any operating system.

CryEngine 3

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It is the development environment that was used for the creation of the Crysis video game saga.

Video games can be developed for the most widely used and important platforms including video consoles. It has many tools for development. It is primarily intended for personal, non-commercial use , but can be licensed by Steam to create commercial projects.

Now is your time. Develop your idea!

As you have seen, regardless of whether you have programming knowledge or not, anyone who proposes it can develop a video game.

Therefore, the main thing is to have a main idea on which said video game turns.

It is also very important to know that, although it is not necessary to have previous programming knowledge, it is highly recommended to have at least certain notions to be able to customize and improve our game.

In addition, to create a video game (especially professional) you have to spend a lot of time (sometimes even years) so you have to constantly be renewing and improving.

Go ahead and start with video game development.