Holistic Mobile Game Development with Unity

Chapter 4Aesthetics and Visual Literacy

One might argue that the essence of much of art is in forcing us to see things as they really are rather than as we assume them to be.

Raph Koster

4.1 Introduction

In a study conducted by the University of Wales, ¹ researchers found that the most important features of computer games for players were, in descending order, playability, graphics, online gaming, the interface, and sound. While a great deal of effort is spent on the programming, in a mobile game this is all for nothing if the game doesn’t engage with the player. The majority of very successful mobile games have vibrant graphics, brilliant ...