Mobile Gaming

Course Overview

You'll expand on your programming skills with an eye toward the unique needs of mobile and learn how to maximize the game experience by utilizing mobile technologies such as GPS to enhance multiplayer elements. Courses at Mobile Gaming from Full Sail University will help you explore how game theory research can be applied to improve the player experience through interactivity, immersion, and engagement. Through a player-centered perspective, you'll examine research on the psychology of gaming, play patterns, and game place mechanics, with special attention given to motivation and learning processes. All of this will prepare you to build your own game from start to finish. You'll work on the production of your mobile game through directed engineering and programming exercises and then go through the testing process. Once complete, you'll present your finished product and learn how to market and monetize it. Thanks to the widespread use of mobile devices, consumers of all ages are drawn to games more than ever before. Game experiences ranging from the very casual to the highly advanced can be purchased in seconds from online environments that allow developers big and small to bring their products to the masses. This industry brings its own unique challenges and opportunities, and professionals who understand the technological, psychological, and financial aspects of mobile game development are needed to fulfill key industry roles.