History of mobile games
The media entertainment market becomes more and more popular year by year. With the appearance of new gadgets, game developers are adapting their projects. Such an ordinary thing as a smartphone, which several years ago has been a technological wonder, now is taken for granted. With the help of some mechanical operations, an owner of a smartphone has an opportunity to dip into the atmosphere of another fantastic world. There are many positive features in mobile games. They are amusing and educational at the same time. Mobile games open the new era of life — digital communication and time spending.
For a range of reasons, the first mobile games were not so widespread as the contemporary versions. The first models of mobile phones with liquid crystal screens did not have color graphics or a powerful sound card. This fact determined the relative simplicity of mobile games. Nokia developed the first mobile game in 1997. It was Snake. The appearance of this game was significant progress for that time.
The distinctive features of the first games were the fact that they were free of charge and supplied together with a mobile phone. In other words, the popularity of one or another model depended upon the popularity of the model of the phone. The appearance of the phone with a camera was a new stage in mobile games development. New graphical possibilities and relatively high storage space gave to the developers an opportunity to produce games with higher resolution and graphics. For instance, such games that demanded the usage of the camera appeared. As a result, the Name Company introduced a new fighting game.
The players could create characters with the help of personal photos. At that time, the Panasonic Company developed the game that was the analog of virtual animal was nourished by pictures of food. The characteristic features of this stage were the first sales of mobile games, which made a profit for their developers. At the beginning of the XXI century, many various applications from simple puzzles up to games in 3D format were represented in the world game market. At that time, arcade games with shortened playing sessions were especially popular.
Nowadays, with the appearance of smartphones and tablet computers, mobile games are viewed in another quality. After the implementation of 3D API technology, the development of mobile games in this format has become a promising trend in this sphere. At the same time, many contemporary mobile games fulfill entertainment as well as communicative functions. They enable players to exchange messages, create their clans, and even trade with each other.To earn and store gold and elixir, players must build gold mines and gold storages and elixir collectors and elixir storages. Elixir is used to carry out research in the laboratory to upgrade troops, and to build and upgrade certain buildings, mostly pertaining to buildings used in attacking another player's base. Gold is used to build defensive buildings and to upgrade the town hall, which allows access to more buildings and higher levels for existing buildings. At Town Hall 7, dark elixir becomes available; this type of elixir is used to train and upgrade dark elixir troops, heroes such as the Barbarian King, and starting at Town Hall 8, create dark spells. To earn and store dark elixir, players must build dark elixir drills and dark elixir storages. At Town Hall 9, Archer Queen becomes available.
The Eagle Artillery is a defensive building first available at Town Hall 11. Town Hall 11 also provides access to a new hero - The Grand Warden, who requires elixir to be born and upgraded unlike the other heroes. At Town Hall 12, a defense called the Giga Tesla is installed on the Town Hall, when upgraded to Town Hall 13 the Giga Inferno replaces the Giga Tesla. Town Hall 13 also unlocks the Scattershot building and the Royal Champion hero.[14] Town Hall 14 unlocks the Pet House, a building used to assign pets to heroes, and the ability for Builder's Huts to be upgraded to level 4, turning them into attack structures.[15]
Town Hall 15 unlocks 2 defenses, which are Monolith and Spell Tower. The Monolith deals a high damage per second and adds an extra damage percentage to the troop being targeted. The Spell Tower, which has 3 types of spells that you can choose as you upgrade have different powers to boost the area or against the troops.
There are a number of buildings available to the player to defend their village, including cannons, mortars, bombs, teslas, traps, archer towers, wizard towers, inferno towers, eagle artilleries, scattershots, Monolith, and Spell Tower. Players can also build walls, which can be upgraded further as a player's town hall level increases.[14][16]
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