Social Gaming and booming Opportunities

Social Gaming is a next generation gaming platform, for playing computer games as a way of social interaction. The popular examples are Care World, Farmville etc from Facebook Games section. These types of games are becoming more popular not only with youngsters but also with many, who ever using social network for various purposes. It’s a great mind relaxation technique, many doctors say.

Now days, these games are in internet enabled computers, and in near future, it goes to mobile and televisions through 3G and broadband television networks. Just like any game development model, the social gaming zone is also having plenty of openings for experienced and also for newbie. There are many types of Social Gaming include Role Playing Games, Alternate Reality Games, Board Games, Social Casual Games etc. Each model will have its own fundamental graphical / logical / technical framework to build multiple concept games.

The possible openings at first level are

1. Graphic Designer – with knowledge in Photoshop, Flash, animations, graphic design
2. Programmer – Action-script, SOA, XML, Network Programming, C++, Java is also required
3. Concept Analyst – with Game theory, Logical Model Development and Integration knowledge
4. Game Engine expert – Game engine development and framework configuration knowledge + SOA + Knowledge about multiple delivery media including Mobile and Television Networks.
5. Testers – Knowledge in testing games with multiple criteria, devices, environments etc. Knowledge in strategy building for efficient test automations.

Come – lets work on the new booming industry. It is going have a big impact with multimedia based development in near future.