Introduction:

Mobile game porting is very important part of the mobile game development life cycle. This article describes the porting methods and trends in this field.

Mobile game market:

The mobile gaming market is growing very fast and it will capture the market of pc games soon. Day by day,Guest Posting game developers are increasing in this field because of the increasing mobile phone users all around the world.

Mobile Game Porting:

Why the term porting did come into mobile game development field? The main reason was the number of mobile phone models, mobile phone manufacturers and different languages for mobile device. A new developed mobile game’s market depends on the number of models covered as the target customers are huge when covering a large number of mobile models. The following are the types of ports which are usually undertaken by developers.

Type of porting:

Platform porting
Porting into different mobile phone models
Localizations porting
Different carriers porting

Platform porting

There are two main platforms for mobile devices which most developer concentrate are J2me and Brew. Most developer use J2ME as the number of models that support this platform is very high when compared to the other. Brew and Python come next in this list. If a developer wants to develop an applications or games and release it world yehyeh wide then they will have to port it to other languages for covering all markets.

Porting into different mobile phone models

Mobile phone models are increasing day by day, and developers keep added them to their database for porting. Since customers who buy new mobile models buy more games, most of new models are the first target for developer.

Localizations porting

The term localizations porting mean changing the language in the application or game. For Example Chinese market which is considered the biggest market for mobile games, sell only Chinese ported models. Meaning, the text in the application or the game should be in their local language. Many other countries prefer such kind of localizations as the target customers prefer these languages.

Different carrier porting