Introductory keynote by Mr.Nalin Savara, delivered at the DevWorx / Nokia Gaming Workshop / Bootcamp- held at Delhi on Feb 23rd, 2013.
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Gaming - State of the Industry and Where are we headed...
1. Gaming
The State of the Industry and
where are we headed…
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2. Where are we…
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3. Where are we…
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4. Where are we…
• 10 years… 2002-2012… gaming has been
bigger (in revenues) than hollywood.
• Rovio (Angry Birds developer) has over 1-billion
downloads… is on it’s way to being worth over a
billion dollars.
• A new release of Halo can get Microsoft $600
Million or more… within 7 days of release…
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5. When we think of a game… what
do we expect ?
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6. When we think of a game… what
do we expect ?
– Phone OR Console OR PC
– 60 FPS
– Multichannel Sound and Background Music
– Network Support-
- on-cloud highscore board
- multiplayer like Quake and counterstrike
- Instantly responsive sound hardware
(250 ms delays- like on early Android phones are
unacceptable)
- Programmer friendly API and “Good” hardware…
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7. How did we get here ?
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8. How did we get here ?
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9. How did we get here ?
• The early Days – Pong
• TV-game Consoles and the age of 8-bit
gaming…
• PC games- the age of Doom, Quake and
Counterstrike
the evolution of dedicated graphics
hardware
• Xbox, PS/2 and the rise of the mobile…
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10. A Short History of Mobile Gaming
It only gets better…
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11. A Short History of Mobile Gaming
It only gets better…
• Snake, S60 and the rise of Nokia Smartphones
• S60 2nd ed– DirectScreenAccess
• s60 3rd ed-- nokia n95 and the n91-- the first
phones with truely powerful graphics accelerated
hardware
• The Nokia Touch Platforms
where did we start ?
(S60 5th Nokia 5800 and brothers) ?
and where are we ?
(Nokia Full Touch- Nokia 311 and family)
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12. Comparing the Nokia full-touch
platform with others…
How is Asha – the Nokia full-touch Java
platform better ?
- Gigahertz Processors
- Graphics Hardware
- 4 or more touch points (Asha 311)
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13. Where are we headed ?
Tech Progress
• Virtual reality
• Higher and higher display resolutions
• 1 Ghz processors
Innovation
• However… Angrybirds and Temple Run were
about ideas, not technology…
• The Nintendo Wii (which saved Nintendo) also
was about innovation not tech…
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14. ____________________
The space is still open and blank…
will your innovation be the next big thing ?
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