Irish Game Dev 2.0

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the GameDevelopers.ie Shindig. What completely surprised me was the dominance of iPhone developers – I knew there’d be a lot but the interest in iPhone as a gaming platform was tremendous and the games companies in Ireland were all focussed on it. Their attitude certainly was that … Continue reading “Irish Game Dev 2.0”

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the GameDevelopers.ie Shindig.

What completely surprised me was the dominance of iPhone developers – I knew there’d be a lot but the interest in iPhone as a gaming platform was tremendous and the games companies in Ireland were all focussed on it. Their attitude certainly was that time to market for iPhone was an order of magnitude quicker and cheaper than developing for other mobile platforms and the people out there were an order of magnitude more likely to buy. We have to temper a little of this with the fact that none of the other platforms have their act together yet when it comes to their app store offerings and that this may change (Google Marketplace being the most advanced).

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