In the modern gaming industry, game co-development has become more commonplace across the board as development projects become more expensive and complex. Co-dev can help projects that seem insurmountable feel more realistic and doable thanks to the extra resources and experience.
For mobile game development projects in particular, working with an experienced co-dev partner like Starloop Studios as part of the Magic Media group can benefit your project in numerous ways and help deliver a second-to-none mobile gaming experience.
Leveraging Your Co-Dev Partner’s Experience
One of the most notable benefits of engaging in co-dev partnerships for mobile game development is the expertize and knowledge at your disposal with an experienced partner. For mobile titles, in particular, co-dev can be extremely beneficial in helping design and craft critical features.
For the vast majority of mobile titles, monetization and live ops are extremely important to their success. Leaning on the experience of a co-dev partner to help create robust monetization strategies is a sure-fire way to give your mobile game development project every chance of success. Whether the strategy ends up as paid premium downloads, in-app purchases, subscriptions, or anything else, experienced co-dev partners are incredibly useful for refining the all-important monetization strategy.
Further to this, mobile game co-development partners can be invaluable for defining the mobile title’s live operations (LiveOps). LiveOps refers to additional content created and released after a game’s initial launch, and it can often be the lifeblood of a mobile title’s continued success. With a co-dev partner working with your studio to deliver continual and engaging new content, such as new levels, seasonal events, and skins, your mobile game development project has a better chance of enjoying continued success.
Co-Dev Partnerships Help Optimize Resources
In all respects, working with a co-dev partner for mobile game development helps resource management significantly. By leveraging your partner’s expertize, your studio’s resources can be allocated differently, whether that is to work on other parts of the mobile game development project, or other projects entirely.
From art to development and design and more, every aspect of your studio’s mobile game development project can be bolstered by the extra help afforded by a co-dev partner. In some cases, studios will work with a mobile game co-development partner specifically for their expertize in certain areas. For example, if the in-house studio needs extra help with 3D game art and development specifically, partners can be brought on board to help with these aspects.
Scaling Your Mobile Game Development Project
Another significant benefit of co-dev partnerships is the ease with which it enables scaling your development efforts. At any given point during the mobile game development project’s lifecycle, the team’s size may need to be scaled up to meet deadlines, or even reduced at times when there’s an overabundance of talent on the team for the tasks that need completing. Co-dev partnerships are beneficial for this as development can be scaled more easily when leveraging an experienced partner’s team.
Scaling up for larger projects is also made possible with co-dev partnerships, enabling studios to tackle larger projects than they would otherwise be able to. For mobile game development specifically, this could mean cross-platform development or post-launch support is more feasible than ever thanks to the added workforce provided by the co-development partner.
Fostering Relationships Through Game Co-Development
Perhaps one of the biggest benefits derived from game co-development partnerships is establishing a working relationship and rapport with another team that can be leveraged in the future. Co-dev requires teamwork, knowledge sharing, and integration, but once you start working cohesively with a partner, it plants seeds for working on future projects together.
With an established chemistry, future projects could be turned around faster and more efficiently. For subsequent projects, the chemistry and understanding between studios are already in place, so further collaborations will help refine co-dev processes until the partnership between the studios is a well-oiled machine. Further to this, working with an experienced co-dev partner also opens doors for learning opportunities for both teams in refining their own processes and development practices.
Starloop Studios is an expert services provider for gaming projects on mobile and all other platforms. We offer an incomparable range of services for gaming projects including full-cycle game development, co-development, game porting, and more. Contact Starloop Studios today to learn more about what we can do for your projects!
