Why HTML5 is the future of the online gaming business?

In 2020, the revenue from the worldwide PC gaming market was estimated at almost 37 billion U.S. dollars, while the mobile gaming market generated an estimated income of over 77 billion U.S. dollars. 

(Source: Statista)

There is a radical change in the way the gaming industry is growing and expanding around the globe. Alongside, there are new technologies evolving on their own front and are contributing exponentially towards the growth of game development by changing the whole experience of the players by giving them a gaming environment that’s immersive and engaging.

HTML5 Games use essential technologies like Web Graphics Library WebGL and Canvas so that these games can be played over the browser and also allows designers to create and transform their 2-D images into 3-D. HTML5 as a game development language is preferable by many over other languages. The reasons being its cross-device compatibility, the ease to learn the language and use, flexibility while working with games, and more. It has become quite popular because of the value it gives to people in the gaming industry.

People nowadays prefer to play games on their mobile devices compared to desktops and considering that, HTML5 should be the preferred language for HTML5 game developers. When HTML5 came into the industry during the times of Adobe Flash, it came out to be as a competitor and with time it clearly outran Flash by creating interactive multimedia content on the web. Now, it is not just giving the players a better browsing experience but it is also making the game developers' life easier.

Cross-platform support

The compatibility that comes with HTML5 games is appreciated by many designers. These games can be played on any device, any platform, and on any screen size. To make sure that no problem arises and that the game responds well to every screen size and platform, some personalization on the code has to be done on the designers end. This is something that needs to be kept in mind as it is a major factor that can be a negative for the game. It is very necessary for a game to be flexible because no gamer would want to go through the trouble of completely porting their game to a new device every time.

This is a standard that supports several browsers irrespective of the operating system. These games can be played on different platforms, devices and environments like Linux, iOS, and Android that understand the HTML5 language. Then again there are also onlines HTML5 games that gamers prefer and that take less effort to play. 

Uninterrupted gaming experience and game development experience

Every gamer wants to play games uninterrupted and without any obstruction in the game loading and running speed. And, HTML5 games not only require limited resources to function but as they can be played online, it gives great speed for endless gaming. This comes as a big advantage for developers and gamers giving them a faster and a smoother online gaming experience.

HTML5 works both ways, it provides the players with a topnotch gaming experience and the game engineers the ease in the process of mobile game development. It reduces the dependency on plugins, provides transparency in the game development process, and offers an interactive experience to the players irrespective of the gadget they are using to play the game. The new feature of arrangement of tags allows developers to create spectacular visual effects in games. There are many advantages that come with building games with HTML5. 

High-level frameworks

Different developers prefer using a specific framework. And, there are two factors that are mostly considered by them when choosing the right framework. Firstly, it should be developer-friendly and then secondly, it should have a wide reach. Nonetheless, HTML5 has compelling frameworks like Knockout.js., Kendo UI, Sencha Touch, and more in-built to build complex mobile web applications with customizable features and at an affordable price. The strong programming language and the high-quality frameworks also contribute towards improving the quality of gameplay for players.

Simplified updation

With HTML5, updates are frequent, timely, and easy with internet access and this attribute makes HTML5 even more stronger and flexible for developers. It provides the ease of game applications being easily updated automatically, remotely and quickly. And, this timely updation and addition of new features makes HTML5 sustainable.

HTML5 for mobile gaming   

A statistic shows the number of HTML5 features supported by various mobile browsers in 2012 and the level of support these browsers provide and accordingly HTML5 features are most highly supported on Chrome for Android 18.0, Firefox for Android, and iOS Safari 6.0. 

(Source: Statista)

HTML5 technology is doing great for mobile games. Thus, any mobile game developer who is looking for their game to do well in the future market knows that the choice should be HTML5. There are amazing games in different genres being made only with HTML5 like HTML5 RPG, multiplayer HTML5 game, action, arcade, racing, puzzle, relaxing games, and more.

HTML5 for Cloud gaming

The initial methods of presenting Cloud gaming have been expensive to build and challenging to scale as it depended on high performance servers, and an extensive network infrastructure. With HTML5 and WebGL, its new standard coming into the picture, most of the challenges that arose with the previous methods were swamped and now web games had access to hardware acceleration and were built with extraordinary graphic quality. The high cost problem was solved by WebGL utilizing local computing power. These HTML5 Cloud computing games could run on multiple devices and no specific software was required to download or run the game. This standard came out as a cost-effective and practical solution for many developers who are into game streaming and want to avoid lag in games at all costs. 

Indeed, HTML5 games are the future of mobile gaming business because of the many benefits that it provides to the game developers and designers. This 5th version of HTML is a markup language that is used to structure, exhibit, and support the multimedia and graphical content over the web. HTML5 has encouraged the development of a new generation of games without the necessity of any external plugin. Cricket World Cup, Ninja Action, Gods will be watching, and Ninja Action are some of the many conventional and popular HTML5 games.

On March 3, 2015 in San Francisco, CA, Unity Technologies, the world's leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content introduced the Unity 5 version. And, it was in this version that they decided to replace the Unity Player plugin with the HTML5 exporter featuring WebGL. This critical decision showed the world the capabilities of HTML5 to create exciting, interactive, and innovative games that could be played right away on the browsers. Ever since then, there have  been stellar migrations to HTML5.

This technology is overriding the global gaming business like anything. Logic Simplified is one of the best HTML5 mobile game development companies in India. We are armed with a team of developers and game designers for hire that helps companies create innovative and influential mobile applications. The people here understand the potential of HTML5 and the possibilities it is capable of presenting to the world. At the same time only an accomplished game development company can help you generate value by putting their expertise and experience to develop web games that are persuasive and interesting.