How Augmented Reality Enriches The Roots Of Education Process?

"Teacher: Why didn’t you do your homework?
Student: I was really sick and unable to do anything
Teacher: Where are the worksheets of last lecture?
Student: My Dad accidentally put it in his briefcase and took it to work. 
Teacher: Ok tell me what did you learn yesterday?
Student: Hanging the head in shame…."

This conversation highlights a common problem: Students are unconcerned about learning, waste time, fall asleep in class or enjoy taking part in the non-academic aspects of school.

So, why are so many students bored in school? Basically, boredom in classrooms is the perception by many students that school learning is worthless or not associated with their goals and interests of their lives.

Unfortunately, many classrooms still reinforce this perception. The teacher stands in front of the class, teaching and then asks students to prepare worksheets or notes based on the lesson. No doubt, that works well for those students who learn best by hearing information-but not so well who wants concrete approach to learning.

We live in a dynamic world where technology is radically transforming the way we share our knowledge sources, by keeping us constantly connected to infinite volumes of raw data and information. It brings optimism and librates both teacher and students by removing traditional boundaries or restrictions to knowledge.

One of the tremendous contributions of technology to education industry is- Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality (AR) makes use of computer-aided graphics to add an additional layer of information in order to have clear understanding and interaction of physical world around you. Simply, AR is represented through rich digital information, displayed through some sort of visual output screen.

Although developed conceptually in the early 1990’s for marketing purposes, the advances in this technology have increased the range of its applications in other areas too, including the one we are discussing – Augmented Reality in Education Industry.

Let’s take a closer look to the top Augmented Reality apps for Education

ZooBurst

This magnificent app is authentically designed through augmented reality which educates basic level students through visual imaging. The app includes digital storybooks with 3-D characters that help students to become the part of the story. Besides, the users could append Adobe flash animations, narrations as well as speech balloons to the story.

 

Aurasma

Aurasma has been specifically designed to be used in multiple methods in the classrooms. The students, with the help of Aurasma, could get the assistance of their teachers while performing their homework. This is possible by just scanning a page of their homework and the page also shows the video of the teacher assisting them to solve the problem. It also allows the interaction of parents and also shows reviews about various books.

Planets

There are 9 planets in the solar system but how about to view them in detail! This astounding app is an ultimate guide which describes about the solar system in complete 3-D format. It also consists of various modes through which you could locate the planets with complete flat view of the sky.

Math Alive

Math alive is a classroom curriculum app that helps teachers teach math in a new and engaging way. By developing critical learning skills throughout the school year, this app lets children meet key milestones in math at Pre-K, kindergarten and first grade levels.

Closing thoughts

Education sector has gone through various updates and changes so far. And with the invention of such lucrative techniques like augmented reality, students experience a better approach towards diversified, detailed and acute learning system. So if you observe your students finding hard to understand topics and subjects or need to sharpen their learning skills then you can implement Augmented Reality base Education App for primary, secondary and higher education including medical, engineering and other branches too.  

 

Enterprise Mobility: Past, Present and Future

Enterprise Mobility today, remains at the top of the list for many organizations. Chief Information Officers  now agree that Mobility has become a necessity rather than a choice. Let’s see how Enterprise Mobility has evolved to its current state and what lies ahead.

Did you know?

  • 89% of all global IT organizations now support some form of BYOD.
  • 43% of smartphone users and 41% of tablet users are not impressed with the corporate mobile apps they use.
  • 60% of employees abandon corporate mobile app because of poor experience.

How enterprise mobility is helping organizations?

  • Boost profits
  • Improve brand loyalty
  • Increased productivity
  • Enhance communication with stack holders

The road ahead

  •  Enterprise mobility market will be valued $140 billion by 2020
  •  The existing spend by enterprises on mobility will grow to 10-12% of the total IT spend by 2020.
  •  Web-connected devices will cross 30 billion mark by 2020

 

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Geofencing – A Revolutionary Solution to Parking Crisis

In this era of globalization, where operating a business is highly provocative, have you ever found yourself in dilemma, founding the reasons that with such distinct services, offers and schemes, why is it so that the customers are not retaining your business? Isn’t it?

Well, here you go! Why?

One of the major factors that thwart the customers from using your products and services is the parking lot issue of your business area. Yes! That’s true. Parking facilities in business centers are as important as the profit to the business.

“We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of customer experience a lit bit better.” -Jeff Bezos

The uses of vehicles and conveyances have been consistently increased by the people over the recent years. Be at an airport, shopping malls, entertainment complexes, hospitals & medical centers, commercial office complexes or residents, problems with parking are an everyday occurrence.

Primarily, the goal of parking management is to create parking availability near businesses or any other venue so that customers can easily find a space. However, for many businesses, the parking lot is not on owner’s radar, till it becomes a huge problem.

Often motorists get frustrated spending excessive time and fuel searching for a spot. This further cause traffic congestion as motorist cruises for parking or stop to wait for a space. Not only such problems spark a foul mood, but also create an extremely negative impact on the quality of your business.

Wait; don’t rush now to break the bank on parking reinforcement or paying to the valets!!

parking solutions

Technology has come a long way over the last several years. With the rise of Internet and smart phones, it has been accelerated in the parking and transportation industry to a great extent, helping business to grow and continue to thrive.

One such revolution is the management of parking lot by using geofencing with enabled apps on your smartphone. Using parking lot management app with geofencing helps you assist customers to identify the space availability and utilize the same. Also, it notifies the parking lot manager and customer in real time, allowing both save time and avoid disputes.

How it works?

parking management app

Geofencing is a macro-location technology, which allows the specification of geographical areas and produces enter and exit events when a device crosses the border.

Once your customers have set up its virtual enclosure around your parking plot, they can be informed about the parking place availability on the basis of success or failure attempts. A successful attempt demonstrates the free space while the failed attempt communicates that the parking area is full.

The time customer park their vehicles, both driver and owner, are notified with information about that particular spot through push notifications. Additionally, when a driver leaves a parking spot and drives away, it indicates that free space should be available again. There is no need to loop in circles looking or fighting over parking spots.

Wrap Up

A well-located parking facility plays an essential role in stable and long-term growth for the business. On the contrary, just one incident of theft or violence could lose you customers and their trust forever. Using mobile technology is the foremost step to the creation of comprehensive parking structures that are more efficient, user-friendly and lucrative than ever before.

Android Lollipop: Team Credencys is Ready to Develop App Using Android SDK 5.0

Android gives us one of the best platform for creating apps and games for Android users and it also gives us an open marketplace for distributing to hundreds of millions of mobile devices in almost 190 countries around the globe instantly.

You won’t believe but it’s true that every single day we spend on earth; more than 1 million new Android devices are activated.

Comes to developer point of view – Android is getting better day by day and year on year since its inception. Today, we could see that it reaches to the latest release of Android Lollipop version 5.0 along with a powerful development framework – SDK 5.0.

With 1.5 billion download a month, millions of users are ready to experience new app developed using SDK 5.0

What comes in SDK 5.0 for developers?

Let’s explore:

Add more fun with high performance graphics

Android 5.0 SDK comes with Android Extension Pack, an OpenGL ES extensions to accelerate performance of 2D and 3D graphics. Using Android Extension Pack you can deliver high performance graphics to games and other apps across a range of GPUs.

Bring unified experience across platforms and device sizes

Integrating new design patterns in your app is possible with expanded UI toolkit “Material Design”. This allows developer to keep animation smooth with system generated processing thread named RenderThread as well gives a seamless experience to end user with beautiful animated motion using activity transition. It also has new 3D views and realtime shadows to bring lives to objects.

Increased battery performance

The most discussed feature in this version is “Building battery efficient apps”. With a new job scheduling APIs called “Project Volta” gives us liberty to optimize battery life for the system to run under specific conditions. You can use battery usage statistics generated by command “dumpsys batterystats” to understand system wide power consumption and the impact of the app on device battery.

Powerful computing experience with ART runtime

Android Lollipop runs exclusively on ART runtime which is built from ahead of time, just-in-time and interpreted code. Its offers 64 bit architecture support to distribute computing workloads. The NDK support is extended to new ABIs while using native code. It offers improved A/V sync for more accurate timestamps for video and games for smooth run.

Build to engage your users

Android TV Input Frameworks allows video stream from HDMI, TV tuners and IPTV receivers using HMDI CEC to control multiple devices using single remote. It’s all possible now with leanback UI framework to support interactions with game controller and input devices.

Multitasking redefined

From an older version of “recents”, Google has reintroduced a better and improved version to access and show separate activity in your app.

Multi networking feature

This feature allows app to query available networks. By using NFC APIs one can register an NFC application ID (AID) dynamically and set preferred card emulation service per active service. Using Bluetooth Low Energy, an app can perform concurrent operation.

Powerful Audio, Video and Camera

It comes with all new audio APIs for fast capture thread, multichannel audio stream mixing and giving more control over text to speech synthesis. New media session API offers consistent media playback. With all new Camera API, you can now capture new formats, control ISO sensitivity to capture uncompressed full resolution YUV images. Android 5.0 support multimedia tunneling to provide the best experience for ultra-high definition content and the ability to play compressed audio and video data together.

All new sensors to give life to device

With tilt detector sensor one can recognize activity on supported devices, and a heart rate sensor reports the heart rate of the person touching the device can bring help to healthcare service sector.

New interaction composite sensors can detect interactions like wake up gesture; pick up gesture as well glance gesture.

Takeaway

With these entire new features, a developer can build an interactive wearable solution to amaze the user. A mobile development company can use lot of new features comes in Android SDK 5.0 as a part of user engagement strategy. There is lot more can happen using SDK 5.0 in the field of Augmented Reality, Wearable apps and high definition games to connect large screen TVs.

Blow Gamers with Real Toys in Virtual Gaming World Using NFC RFID

Today, gaming is not the stereotype of Kids or teenager loner while it has become an integral part of family entertainment. Gaming market is estimated to reach 14.4 billion by 2017 globally. Ubiquitous users demand for vibrant game that gives an extra edge to the gaming business.

Extensive use of mobile has stimulated mobile gaming. Every year, this business is accelerating by 35 percent. While, packaged computer game and consoles woes are deepening, so in order to upturn, big techs are using NFC and RFID technology to bring new life to the game, encourage the curiosity and protect their revenue base.

How does it work?

RFID (Radio frequency identification) tags are a few decades old that have replaced bar codes and employ radio signals for tagging and tracking purposes. RFID had been used in outstanding array of applications across various verticals like logistics, transportation and many more.

NFC (Near Field Communication) is an emerging technology that provides short-range, high frequency wireless communication between NFC mobiles or NFC enabled objects or reception devices through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection.

However, NFC is newer, but a honed version of RFID which can be set up for one or two-way communication. The robust technology establishes secured connection that has been used worldwide across all industry to explore limitless opportunity.

Resurgence of toys

Uptill RFID/NFC technology has been used in console gaming by the top honchos like Skylanders, Disney Infinity and Nintendo. Instead, no such functionality is used that would connect NFC games with objects like toys or 3D figurines or cards.

Have you ever think of such connectivity?

Mobile gaming notched $12.3 billion annual sale in 2013.

NFC RFID brings this into a reality and it blows away your children as they can include any new physical toy or figurine in their already existing game app virtually at its own.

Isn’t it startling?

Let’s see how it comes into reality?

RFID tags would be embedded in any physical items like toys, game controllers and consoles at the time of manufacture. Each NFC tag is also encoded with a unique ID number that match the player for a particular game and gamer would identify the same figurine or toy in the gaming app.

Even, without buying toys or cards or labels embedded with RFID tags, prospects can add new feature by reading the tags of toys placed at the various public locations by the developers or providers of game.

By this way, a game development company can market its game more effectively using public appearance of their famous toys. It gives a whole new experience to all the children as well parents will love it too.

On other hand, an organization having a mascot can develop a mobile application for brand engagement using NFC RFID.

Takeaway

NFC is creating a huge buzz in every sector and in a matter of time would reshape the gaming industry. NFC mobiles are all-present, deploying NFC & RFID, new dimensions can be added in the gaming that yields immersive experience to the user. Let’s get the ball roll over and let the gamers experience virtual and physical world mash-up laced with humor and adventure.

Obsessed for the Privacy of Your iPhone?

Their phones are pricey and don’t have the best specs on the market, yet today they are the most admired manufacturers on earth. In the third consecutive survey, Apple ranked itself as the highest among manufacturers of smart phones in customer loyalty and satisfaction.

Certainly, your iphone knows more about you than any other creature in the world. It holds your contacts, pictures, videos, texts, voicemails, apps, banking details and emails. Also, one can use it for paying bills, playing games with friends, check-in to the favorite places and much more.

However, Apple also comes with several hidden features that you may not have realized existed. It has made convenient to make one familiar with the operations of your iPhone through a Unique Device Identifier or UDID.

An Overview of UDID

Now, doesn’t that make you wonder why anyone needs to track your UDID number?

Unique Device Identifier is the serial number attached to every iOS device. Generally, it is available for the developers to install early versions of the mobile applications for debugging and testing purpose.

Now, doesn’t that make you wonder why anyone needs to track your UDID number?

Over the last decade, online and mobile marketing has grown exponentially. UDID aligns to the way consumers make purchasing decisions by tracking almost all their activities through iPhone, iPod and iPad. This led Businesses to discover what they like and tailor ads to their preferences.

How? Well, here’s the cycle:

The developer working behind an app sells your UDID to an advertising network, which then can be stored on its servers. Further, these ad networks sell their databases to ad companies, which can create a complete beautiful picture by combining all UDID databases.

Even though, it’s not a bad thing for most people, it has the potential for being misused. In isolation, we are giving our unique identity to the companies all the time, which means allowing them to excavate our personal information, credit cards numbers, medical records, home street address and much more.

Epilogue

Ever you are asked for access to your UDID and you care for your privacy, take a second to consider if you want to share all super freely. If not, you can use a Secure UDID that doesn’t let the hackers unleash the information your UDID holds. Though it allows developers to differentiate between devices, they can use it within their own code. They are primarily prevented from accessing the same UDID as another developer, which greatly reduces the risks of any potential leaks.

Amaze Your Child this Christmas with the Gifts from Real Santa

The year is rolling to its end now and the jingle bells are about to start ringing. Of course a lot of preparation has to be done for the cakes, decorations, celebrations and relishing recipes. Indeed! That truly fills up the excitement of Christmas in the air.

But hold on! What about the gifts? If your family celebrates Christmas and you are all set to play the role of jolly old fat man role for your children again, WATCH OUT!! as it may get sated with disappointments.

The tykes of today are getting increasingly savvy these days. They are prone to be extremely inquisitive about their surroundings and primarily motivated by the devices that stimulate senses.

So, how about the idea of giving personalized gifts from real Santa through augmented reality?

It may looks like pie in the sky, but believe it; you would really get favorable solutions for your beloved children.

The ultimate technology of Augmented Reality helps to create live and artistic images in the form of 3D models, animations, audio and video after overlaying 2D objects in real time through an app-enabled smartphone.

With access to user profiling and data mining techniques, augmented reality app provides a digitally enhanced view to research, compare and purchase goods.

Using this app provides you several options as evidence to your kids that the Santa exists and allowing them to get desired things from a corresponding gift list.

How does it work?

You can buy a gift card in which QR code is embedded, let your child scan it and come across the world which he never experienced before.

You couldn’t predict their happiness when they would view something like a Santa taking them to the place full of electrifying gifts and obtain the same. So, this Christmas switch on to distinct mode to present them a memorable experience to treasure.

Take Away

If this concept of augmented reality inspires you to design something creative and outstanding then we could prove out your best partners. This idea is worth for media and advertising companies for creating innovative apps for their customers this festival season. At Credencys, we accomplish with some out of the box ideas which would have never been in the news earlier. We stand apart with our unique creations, methodologies and ideas that would leave you amazed. Hence, join us for something artistic and innovative.

Augmented Reality Promising the Next Wave of Innovation in Banking Space

Nowadays, heading to the banks for any transaction, or payment or for any other financial activity is like hiking with the boots that are too loose to prefer. Banking space is adding new dimensions to experience a major shift and reach new heights by embracing huge mass of customer base efficiently.

For the banking sector, to solve customer’s pain point or end up their frustration due to the poor banking experience is not a run-of-the-mill job. Instead, rapid adoption of groundbreaking technology, Augmented Reality has helped in eliminating this cornerstone and its integration across various services allowed the customer to use services in a blink of eye.

Augmented reality is a diverse technology that enhances and improves the view of real world by overlaying 3D view of the surrounding over 2D object, every time you project the app-enabled smart phone over it.

The niche technology has marked remarkable difference in the banking sector with web and mobile applications. Old aged methods are not efficient to get more user engagement and derive effective results. In that case, astounding banking solutions through augmented reality can redefine banking and reveal a glimpse of untapped potential across boundaries.

Add life to your Bank Card

Enable banking customers to do 90% of the activity on digital device.

Use of mobile phones is tightly integrated in our daily lives and same holds true for the use of credit & debit cards. Integration of augmented reality in the mobile app lets the user to view their account information just by holding their card in front of their smart phone’s camera.

Westpac, an Australian bank use this technology to build an app that gives incredible experience to the customers. App display balances, transaction history, spend locations and how the money was spent, in 3D bar charts after projecting the app enabled camera over card.

Other than this, it summarizes loyalty points, marks the number of days remaining to pay the bill and allows instant payment as well.

Use Case: Augmented Reality into everyday banking

Recruitment of Banking Talents at Fingertips

The traditional approach of going through the job vacancy ads in the classified section of the newspaper and then applying for it will soon fly away. As, AR apps revolutionize the standard hiring process of workforce by letting prospects to scan the brochure of the organization in the form of 3D video with any digital device.

ASB bank based in New Zealand has unveiled this 3D augmented reality app known as ‘Work for ASB’ recruitment app that help in recruiting banking talent via future recruitment campaigns. Also, enlist the tips for the job aspirants for interview, CV and let candidates share their recruitment experience on different social media channels.

Use Case: Augmented Reality technology used to help recruit banking talent

Takeaway

In the last few years, banks have been engaged in technology arms race to engineer such apps that made the banking process handy and comfort the customer. Augmented reality solutions deliver the seamless solutions that completely transform the way services offered to the customer and also, provide an exceptional opportunity to the banks to stand out from the crowd.

Augmented Reality and Gaming – A Match Made in Heaven!

Technology has brought cataclysmic changes in the gaming landscape. The mobile market, too, is growing exponentially with millions of devices being introduced daily. Most importantly, technology is also transforming ways in which a game is played. If you are skeptical about the growth in mobile gaming, check out these mind-blowing statistics.

  • 241% increase in online gaming since 2008
  • 52% of gamers play for more than one hour a day
  • 18% of all time spent on tablets is spent on mobile games
  • Smartphone gaming industry to double by 2016
  • 84% of tablet owners are now playing games

As technology continues to evolve, gaming industry will witness unimaginable changes in the years to come. One such technology that has already started transforming gaming is Augmented Reality (AR). Imagine interacting with game characters in real-time. That’s the kind of potential this latest technology has. Let’s delve a bit deeper to find out how the gaming landscape is all set to witness a major transformation in coming years.

Revisiting the past

In early 1970s, gamers pecked at keyboards to manipulate those black and white dots on the screen. Fast forward 40 years, and you can now see gamers playing advanced online multi-player games with interactive graphics, animation, multi-dimensional environment etc.
The gamer, too, has evolved over these years. Just a couple of years from now and you will see game characters integrated with real-world environment to create a truly immersive experience.
Today, developing a game is no more limited to simple linear programming. In fact, it is now the era for building games for touch-control and motion sensors. Augmented Reality, as a technology, has the capability to refine a gamer’s experience and make it look more realistic.

Games that keep you hooked on

Consider games such as SpecTrek. As a ghost hunting game for android devices, you can catch ghosts virtually in the real world using camera and GPS. Such games are gradually rising in popularity as these add a new dimension to the end-users experience

What’s the future going to be like?

How would you feel like playing soccer with Ronaldinho in your living space? Seems like a distant dream ain’t it? Well, smart glasses from Google and Meta promise to deliver you this experience. Gaming is all set to reach the next level, like, the one you saw in science-fiction movies when you were a teenager.

Wearable Tech

Smartglasses like Meta’s SpaceGlasses and Atheer One will soon be available in the market and there will be gaming apps that offer you an incredible experience. Google has already made its glasses available for the masses. These advanced devices are equipped with all the necessary features to make gaming more immersive.

The in-built gyroscope and accelerometer work concurrently to read the location as well as tilt of your head as it moves right/left. Voice command allows you to give instructions. For instance, you can say ‘shoot’ for sending a missile to kill an enemy in the game play.

As Smartglasses become mainstream, there will be a chance for developers to churn out games that have an entire new collaborative real-world game play.

For instance, let’s say you loved playing dungeons and dragons when you were a kid. With today’s technology, you can have a new level of experience where dragons come out of the table. Or, imagine zombies coming out of walls in your living spaces and you have to punch them using hand gestures. It’s like having more of an emotional connect playing such type of games.

Furthermore, it is very much possible to develop games wherein players interact with holograms by simply wearing the glasses. Physics plays a key role here. When gamers interact in 3D inside the virtual world with physics, it certainly enhances the overall experience and makes them feel connected. Imagine audio being played only when you make specific movements.

As the expectations of gamers continue to reach new heights, augmented reality can certainly help make the experience more engaging. For instance, gamers now enjoy rich 60 FPS 3D game experience on their smartphones. Apps will be built that leverage sensor capabilities of devices for creating more compelling experiences for gamers.

With wearable tech, the possibilities are indeed infinite!

3D sensors in mobile devices

Gaming will experience a major transformation once smartphones and tablets come equipped with 3D depth-sensing devices. Let’s understand, what exactly 3D sensors mean for gaming.

Hardware like 3D sensors allows your smartphone/tablet to create a 3-D vision of your surrounding environment in real-time. What this implies is that you can now scan the world around you in three dimensions. Structure Sensor has been a pioneer in this area. Recently, Google initiated its Project Tango that involves developing a smartphone with in-built 3D Sensors. It has already rolled out around 200 such devices.

Augmented Reality gaming apps can be built for such smartphones that facilitate 3D object scanning by just walking around in a room. Sensors enable AR wherein digital/virtual images are placed on top of real world objects when seen via a viewfinder.

Players can now create their own space and interact with the world like never before. Game physics can now be applied to real world objects and surfaces. Here’s another example worth checking out.

Here’s how the entire thing works. A 3D sensor projects a speckled pattern of infrared light out onto world so that its infrared camera can view how the pattern is scattered by the objects where it falls on. Now, this information is utilized for reconstructing objects in three dimensions. This entire process is dependent on a chip.

For instance, a game can be built that uses the 3D sensor in a smartphone for capturing the 3D shape of a table and objects placed on it. Once you start the app, you see a virtual world being built around the table with game characters which can navigate over real world objects that are placed on table. For playing, you have to tap on the screen to interact with the real-world environment.

As smartphones with in-built 3D sensors become ready to find their way into market, gaming will certainly get transformed in a way we haven’t imagined! Are you ready to ride onto the next gaming wave? Let us know your thoughts.

Thinking of Outsourcing Mobile Game Development? Here’s What You Should Know

The global mobile gaming market is growing at exponential rates. With smartphone sales shooting up by nearly 50%, the demand for mobile games for both iOS and Android has been on the rise. In fact, as per the well-known researcher Luke Wroblewski, more mobile phones are sold over 24 hours than babies born. These mind-boggling statistics very aptly prove that the demand for mobile phones including games will definitely see an upward trend in the future.

More people are coming with creative game ideas for smartphones but either lack the skills or don’t have enough time to build the game. So, what’s the solution? One word – Outsourcing! In recent years, people are outsourcing their game development projects to regions such as Eastern Europe, India, China, Korea, Philippines and many more. However, everything is not easy as it seems when we talk about outsourcing a Mobile Game Development project. So, before you dip your toe into the waters of Outsourcing, take some time out to consider the following aspects to avoid hassles later on.

Gaming ExperianceExperience matters a lot

When you are out on the hunt for the best Game Development Company, there is a good chance that you will get bids from various companies. You, however, need to be extremely careful in short-listing the companies. Go for a company which has at least 4 to 5 years of experience in the game design & development landscape. What you could do is ask for their samples including artwork of the games designed. If they have a sizeable portfolio consisting of good work, you can consider them.

Furthermore, ask whether they have in-depth experience of using game engines such as Unity3D. Chances you will also ask for proposals from these companies. Look out for companies that send creative proposals to stand out.

Remember, experienced companies who have genuinely worked under this landscape will provide you with clear proposals and a good portfolio. Never believe companies to what they say, instead ask for concrete proof of their experience! Experienced game developers have detailed understanding about UI design, 3d modeling & rigging etc.

Clearly define the Game Development scope

Most people don’t bother to define the scope of their game development project. So, what’s the big deal with that you might think? Well, it could create problems at a later stage. Best thing to do is have a clear written scope of your project to avoid confusions later on. Consider this example.

You might want to have m-commerce functionality with your game but forget to communicate this to the outsourcing team. Later you realize this and ask them to incorporate this particular feature. It might very well create problems because the developer will have to spend extra time.

So, better to have a well-defined scope for your project from the beginning! If you want the developer to help you upload the game on App Store or Google Play Store, include that as well within the scope of your project.

BudgetHave a rough idea about your budget

Cost is the biggest factor why people choose to outsource their projects to countries such as India. When choosing your outsourcing company, have a little idea about your budget. It helps you during the negotiation process and speeds up the entire decision making process as well. Spend some time working on how your game will be like including your finances. Also, decide on your maximum budget. All this information will help you during the initial talks with a prospective developer.

 

Project Management

Ask about Project Management & Working Methodologies

Don’t hesitate to ask about the project management processes. Find out to what level the outsourcing company will involve you in the development process. Many experienced companies have dedicated project managers who regularly report the progress of your project in a timely manner. Most importantly, they also involve you in all the processes right from starting to end. For instance, we at, Credencys follow the Agile Scrum Development Methodology and promise tangible delivery every 15 days and even have project management tools such as activeCollab in place for the convenience of our clients.

Communication supportCommunication processes are crucial

It is important to remember that communication will be the key to the success of your project. Ask the prospective candidates their communication policies to have a clear idea. After all, you would not want to have a bitter experience of getting no replies from the developer after repeated attempts. Ask them which tools they use for online chat, (audio/video) web conferencing etc. Also, ask about the manner in which they will be offering the technical support.

Communication happens to be one of the biggest challenges when it comes to outsourcing. Go for companies which have transparent communication policies. It is even important to find out whether the developer can fluently converse in English or not. If not, communication problems might arise in future. Outsource your projects to companies that have proper Communication Infrastructure, Protocols and Procedures in place.

Terms & ConditionsLook-out for hidden charges, terms & conditions

Make sure before choosing your outsourcing service provider, you find out there are no hidden charges whatsoever. Be crystal clear about the terms and conditions of your contract. Double-check whether your sensitive data is safe in the hands of your outsourcing service provider. Ask if the company is ready to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement for sensitive projects.

Take-away

Selecting the right outsourcing company for your game development needs might seem a challenging task after you have gone through the above details. However, with proper research you can indeed get the best developers for your project. Be thorough with your project needs, decide on a budget and communicate your expectations clearly and you should be through! Good luck!