3D will bring more customers, so start converting your games now, says SCEE’s Mick Hocking at Develop in Liverpool
Games created for the new 3D displays will allow developers to reach more consumers.
That’s according to SCEE’s Mick Hocking, who has in his Develop in Liverpool keynote argued the case for the relevance and importance of 3D game development to all modern studios.
“We can make more games more accesible with 3D,” insisted Hocking, speaking in a conference session titled ‘Seeing is Believing: 3D a New Creative Medium for Games’.
“Doing things like the way we’ve used Move combined with 3D in Tumble makes a game more natural and more accesible, which will be great for welcoming more people to your games.”
Hocking also used his keynote to counter the common argument that 3D in games is little more than a gimmick that offers little gameplay benefits. “With 3D, unlike other mediums film and TV, we can interact and innovate in far more ways,” he said, highlighting a number of improvements 3D brings to gameplay, such as giving players more accuracy of control and timing, and a greater sense of space, height and distance.
by Will Freeman in Liverpool