This month: Gingee (Gingee)
ROEI LIVNEH SET out to solve a problem faced by millions of
developers: with the plethora of mobile platforms, how can you make a game that will perform well and look good across any platform and device? This obstacle led him to create
Gingee, a cross-platform development solution that, he says, enables any developer to create a game or app that can run on all current and future devices and operating systems without the need for customisation.
“This means that a game developed today can not only run on iOS 7 and Android 4.4 KitKat, but also on iOS 8, Android 4.5 or 5.5, Blackberry 10, Smart TVs, PCs, tablets and so on,” Livneh, Gingee CEO, tells Develop. Gingee points out that there are more than 11,000 diff erent Android devices running eight distinct Android OSes, as well as multiple smartphones and tablets running iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone.
Through Gingee’s Liquid UI technology, based on a proprietary algorithm, which analyses the relations between objects and maps them uniformly for all platforms, OSes and
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Roei Livneh (left) and an example of a Gingee game (above)
A game created today can not
only run on iOS 7 and Android 4.4, but also on iOS 8.
Roei Livneh, Gingee
devices, Livneh says developers are able to ensure an identical experience everywhere. As gamers are increasingly playing across devices, from mobiles to tablets, the need for such a solution is becoming more pronounced.
“With games providing an immersive graphical experience, Gingee’s technology enables the delivery of near-native performance because of direct communication with the OS. This facilitates running games with hundreds of objects on the screen simultaneously without adversely impacting the performance of the game or device, regardless of how many other applications are running simultaneously,” he says. The interface itself is
drag-and-drop-like, which enables development without coding for iOS, all Android versions and devices, BlackBerry, mobile web and more.
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Gingee’s Independent Development Environment (IDE) then automatically generates the programming code – one code in one pipeline distributed simultaneously to all platforms. Thanks to such a method, Livneh claims that Gingee can cut development time by up to 50 per cent. The tool is currently being used by more than 500 indie developers, according to Livneh. The usability of Gingee’s solution was put to the test at a recent hackathon, where most of the participants had never written a line of code. All 11 hackathon apps were written using the tool, the fi rm says. Gingee is available as a limited free version, while the Pro version is priced at $500 per seat.
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