14 DAY TRIAL // One of the leading developers at Chair, the developer of Infinity Ward and Shadow Complex, believes that the gaming industry is now going through a Golden Age that is mostly linked to the rise of gaming on iOS-powered devices.
Donald Mustard, who is the creative director of Chair, has stated, “I honestly think we're in the golden age of gaming at the moment. There are games for zero dollars that are really worth playing, and then there are these games for sixty dollars which are just incredible experiences. And there's everything in between. It's just an awesome time to be a gamer.”
The developer says that the number of titles launched on the iPad and the iPhone means that there are a lot of interested gamers who play regardless of what the players like.
Mustard added, “We're approaching 400 million iOS devices that can play these sort of games. We'll soon be passing half a billion - and that's so much more than the number of Xboxes that are out there.”
The developer says that Chair stumbled upon the idea of Infinity Blade on iOS-powered devices while thinking about titles that could be created for the motion-tracking PlayStation Move from Sony and Kinect from Microsoft.
Then the company managed to get the Unreal Engine 3 running on the Apple devices and understood that the sword fights could be replicated on the devices.
Chair is currently working for developer Epic Games, and sales of Infinity Blade have gone past the 50 million dollars mark (37.8 million Euro) and the company says it has plans to launch more titles linked to the Infinity Ward universe.
At the moment Epic is working on Unreal Engine 4, widely expected to be unveiled after Sony and Microsoft announce their plans for the next generation of home consoles.