Mobile Gaming is the new gaming — games and youth

Playing a game can be defined as an activity that someone engages in for amusement. We play games because it’s fun; it increases brain function, practices cognitive skills and releases serotonin, the happy chemical. As technology has advanced, the thrill and allure of playing games have only increased, with a more visual stimulus, creativity, and satisfaction. Also, playing games proved a great time pass for people and help them freshen up.

In India, we have many young people, leading to more competition among them. Now, in this hard time of competition, mainly this population continually seeks to escape into activities that are fun and well as refreshing. There are many other factors too which are leading a large portion of the population toward the gaming world. Showcasing one’s gaming skill is one of the major reasons followed by the sense of community and social engagement.

Now a day, game development companies are focusing more on creating online games. It is not always important to enabling the multiplayer features in the game but adding the option to share the score is enough. This is not some coincidence but PR management. With the increase in usage of internet and social media, people are becoming more competitive, not in real life but in virtual life. Hosting the online game provides the player with the satisfaction of winning against the real players sitting on the other sides. This helps in increasing the happiness level and hence enhance the thinking capability. But all the successful games in India possess one thing in common, they all are on the mobile platform, mainly android.

I was wandering in the street after dinner one night when I stopped to listen to some talks between children sitting around each other in a group. They were talking about some map in grand theft auto game. It was surprising, they were around 13- 14 years old but talking about 18 + game. I jumped in between the conversation and asked about the game. One of the boys from the group took out his phone and showed me the game. It was not that game, I was concerned about but a copy which was created for the mobile platform. Another boy interrupted us and said that it is a boring game, PUBG is good. My interest jumped out of that game and landed on the fact about the craze of mobile games in teenagers.

Since, in India, smartphones are easily accessible in especially metropolitan and tier-2 cities. In the current scenario, over 500 million Indians are now using smartphones, a 15 % increase from 2018 primarily due to brands like Xiaomi and Realme that continue to bring new users to the ecosystem. With the increase in usage of smartphones, the audience for mobile games is getting bigger. Recent some decisions are taken by the government about the Aatmanirbhar Bharat might also directly influence the growth of the gaming industry in India. Rising from the ‘Action and Adventure’ kind, in which 10s to 100s of players contend continuously to be the last player standing, games like Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), Call of Duty, Free Fire, Fortnite which highlight relentless, hyperkinetic activity and development are drifting in India. Increasingly more easy-going gamers like to play multi-player games that don’t last more than 15–20 minutes. This allows them to freshen up their minds without disturbing their work. Also, smartphone producers conveying skilful equipment like good GPU and more ram even in mid-range smartphones has helped in quickening the hunger for versatile games in the Indian market and shows vast potential for mobile game distributers.

This likewise presents the obvious fascination for Esports — one more aspect of online gameplay. The present youth is as or more occupied with Multiplayer online mobile games like cricket. No other gaming stage has gotten Esports as quick as smartphones. With games like PUBG, Mobile Legends, and Clash Royale, Esports has just made a positive and drawing in sway in India. There are many brands which are organising Esports making it a real arena.

In India, this industry is ruled by the mobile gaming fragment. As per the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), the income from this section of the gaming business in India will be worth $943 million by 2022. This is a development of more than 200 % over a time of six years from $466 million out of 2016. So, now the increase in mobile users and game industry shows a substantial future as a career. Also, it opens a new opportunity for small game developers to expand their business. So conclusive if we say, the gaming industry is going to open new gates for businesses and jobs. And since India is the second most populated country, there is a huge audience waiting for their product.