Most Project Managers in the gaming industry vex about the projects schedule and its management. Game Producers, on the other hand, have a key responsibility that transcends that of the Project Manager and that is to communicate & champion the vision of the game to the team, clients & outside stakeholders. The role of Game Producers may vary from company to company, from the role of note takers in some to Project Managers in others.

What I personally believe is that the main role of Game Producers is to bring the best out of creative people as well as manage delivery by making vision oriented project plans, among other responsibilities. The Game Producer needs to know how to harness the creativity brewing inside his team members while also ensuring compliance with the project plan. If there ever was a mantra to ace the role of a Game producer, I believe the following list would form its foundation :

• Communication: Communication is the basic need of any team/ organization. The process of communication is declared complete once the message has been received and understood by the recipient. Thus as a Game Producer, one must ensure that the message is simply understood by the recipient and clear doubts in case of a confusion or distortion. As a Game Manager one needs to drive home the vision of the project, no matter how many repetitions it takes.

• Own- The Concept, Plan & Project Vision: Game Producer is the one on whom team depends for a structured plan of action. Failing to plan is planning to fail. Thus, as a Game Producer, one should always plan each and every detail and this plan must be known and communicated by the producer to his team.

• Track & Verify: This can be quite simply summarized with the acronym ABCD- Always Be Collecting Data. Compare the actual progress to the planned progress to better manage expectations.

• Know your Pipelines: The roadmap of projects and workflow pipelines must be at the back of Producer’s mind.

• Set the Rules: A team works best when they are clear about the vision. As a Game Producer, you must manage Daily Standups, inform the team about their Daily Tasks, review their progress on a day to day basis and have everyone update their task list daily before standups.

• Commit, then Deliver: The Game Producer’s role is to commit to the organization about delivery of the Project, then work with the team to deliver on those commitments.

• Carry the Vision: As a Game Producer one must be completely aware about the vision of the product and should protect and promote that vision during the entire course of the production cycle.

• Be a Lifelong Learner: This may sound a bit philosophical and vague but it is really important to understand the power of knowledge. Staying up to date with field related news is the crux of any successful career. Reading books, news, taking similar role interviews, taking inputs from team are few ways you can stay ahead of the game.

• Be a servant to the team: For a Game Producer, his/her team is the most important thing. As their leader, the Game Producer must fulfill the needs of his/her team. A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

• Listen: Sometimes the best suggestions come from the unlikeliest of sources. A Game Producer must understand this and value and review every opinion with equal fervor.

Rahul
Game Producer
Nukebox Studios

There’s something about the Android gaming market that has been helping it stay strong.  With the increase in the use and popularity of smartphones, it does not come as a surprise that these games are also turning out to be very popular. The popularity of the casual Android games has been increasing consistently in the recent past for the alluring power that they come integrated with.

With the demographic shift to more casual and young users, Android mobile games are also beginning to take up a key position in the industry. This gives great opportunities for gaming development firms and students studying game development courses as the gaming industry take off and the opportunities are almost endless.

Irrespective of a person’s age, a majority of individuals today – both kids and adults – show equal enthusiasm when it comes to playing Android games on their mobile phones. They are literally glued to their smartphones, while becoming completely oblivious to their surroundings.  Lately, with the universal presence of Android smartphones, these games have been increasing in terms of popularity even more due to many reasons.

Mobile Gaming: An Amazing Feature of the Android Platform

One of the most amazing aspects of the Android platform is that users can play many cool Android games on their handheld. Furthermore, most of them are free to download and play. In fact, a recent research shows that Android games are the most downloaded apps on this mobile platform. What’s it that’s making the Android games so popular? There are many on-going debates about this topic. As the discussion heats up and continues, there are even more games being launched on this platform every day. Many classic games are also making a comeback on this platform.

Mobile gaming comes with the greatest advantage of portability and this in turn contributes to the greater reach of Android games. The cost of development games for Android platform is also lesser when compared to developing games for gaming console and computer platforms.  There’s no need to pack, promote or deliver the game to the player!

A Niche Gameplay for Casual Gamers

The real success of the Android gaming market is that it has discovered its own niche: casual players’ games. Titles like Star Wars: Commander permits for a drop-in, drop-out kind of involvement that lets gamers to create worlds that need weeks or even months to build and grow. It is not just about extending the limits. Simplicity is also occasionally appealing to gamers.

Due to the benefits of accessibility and convenience aspects that Android games come with, they have been continuing to dominate the mobile gaming market.

Android games are here to stay. Whether you are a regular gamer or new to gaming, there certainly is a game on this platform to suit your gaming needs and that substantiates why Android games are so popular among everyone.

If you’ve been following us for a while now, you’d know that it’s pretty hard to do – we move fast and kinda seem to have a pretty fetish for speed. Well there’s X Racing of course (yes, it’s coming out very soon we promise) but then, we’ve been hammering together something else entirely.

Yup. I’m just gonna leave a couple of images up there as a teaser for you guys. So what is this game?

Here is a sneak peak 😉

I mean, a car that takes selfies? Passé. Right? So here’s a laundry machine that levitates.

Why? Mainly because nobody could provide a solid answer to the age-old question, why not? So now we have this guys running around in the game spewing dirty socks and bubbly soap water. He’s kinda cute so we have decided to keep him around.

But you know we wouldn’t stop at that. Well yes, there’s more.

If you are expecting an explanation of what that is, you expected wrong. You’re going to have to unlock this guy and play with him to figure out his secret super-powers. And for that, you need to look out for the update we’re about to put out.

Bring Me Home is about to get a LOT more freaky.

Watch out!

Bring Me Home appears at the Windows Phone Marketplace, found guilty of being way too awesome.

We just released Bring Me Home into the wild, and it’s definitely going places.

If you haven’t played it yet, Bring Me Home is a beautiful and deceptively simple game about an EPIC quest to get where you belong. Set in a retro-futuristic world, you control a hovercraft in your attempt to go home – evading trees, buildings and traffic. While this is happening, you’re also trying your best not to get sucked into the (extremely obvious) doom that keeps following you around. Well, enough talking, check out the trailer video.

Even with having done only a limited release restricted to Windows Phone, players have been swarming into the game in droves and the feedback has been spectacular! Here’s just some of them…

Level of awesomeness 100%. This game is so much funny!

Ian, Brazil

 

Mega super duper satisfying

Detsung

 

Wow, I love everything about this game! The gameplay is addictive, especially the jokes (you gotta get the BSOD car, that thing is a blast!). The best part is: They even have a chip generator machine!

Trung, European Union

To seal the deal, Bring Me Home is now rated 4.8 stars with 95% of our players rating it 5 stars. We’re immensely grateful for all the love!
Well, stay tuned because we are cooking up some kickass top-secret ingredients into our next update, and its coming very soon. Follow Bring Me Home on Facebook.