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Testronic’s Sanjeev Bhalla applauds the advancements in games tech, and ponders where the future lies
“The world of games and their development has been, and always will be, exciting. The challenges faced by games
development teams is a reflection of that. ”
Virtual reality stands to change the way the world enjoys entertainment – and game devs are at the forefront
GAMING HAS COME a long way. And at every step it’s been exciting. Think back to the first Atari console, Spectrum games or the Vic 20 – remember navigating your way through a dungeon, controlling a character whose body comprised of arms made from two-to-three staggered pixels connected to a pixelated body holding a bat or a sword made up from no more than a couple of blocks of graphics? And the world you played in, just a couple of background colours, perhaps a simple maze. Rubbish, right? No, it was brilliant. It suspended our disbelief, like the early silent black and white films.
So it has been ever since with each new roll-out as technology evolved and gave players better
consoles, more detailed worlds to play in, AI characters to contend with and the ability to personalise characters. The world of games and their development has been, and always will be, exciting. The challenges faced by development teams is a reflection of that.
And now we have virtual reality. Previously, VR technology was a fad of the 90s that very few experienced but everyone heard about. Yet you can be sure that with the recent announcements of high profile investments in the technology, tomorrow it will be our second home. And it will mean an even bigger, more immersive, more immediate place for people to play their games, make purchases, and network socially and share a common living room with to browse movies and online stores. It will change everything.
PUTTING TECH TO THE TEST In facing the trials this poses, it is expert QA that will clear the way for ease of development to deliver that great experience that everyone is buzzing about; QA that understands the entire digital entertainment, software and business spectrum.
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