The gaming industry has not shown any shortcomings and has greatly thrived into 2024, which has been witnessing rapid technological developments.

• The gaming market is estimated to grow to over $320 billion by the decade's end. (Source: Weforum.org)

The game engine Unity has a commanding presence and impact on the game development industry.

• In 2019, 53% of the top 1000 games on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store were made in Unity. It has 1.5 million active monthly users, creating 8000 apps and games. The company reported a revenue of $609.27 million in Q4 2023, up 35.10% year-over-year.

Although the Apple Vision was expected to sell 800,000 units in 2024, the figure has been slashed by half to 400,000 to 450,000.

The price tag is one of the prohibitive factors for this change in projections.

Have you played a board game recently? Have you been able to climb the ladder in snakes and ladders? Did a snake get it? Has your family been emotionally destroyed by Monopoly?

If your answer to any of these questions is ‘yes, ’then you may be entitled to an upgrade; a DIGITAL upgrade, that is.

Before you invest your time and money into the game development process, game prototyping serves as a metric to determine if it is a good investment. It creates a functional model of the gameplay that showcases its viability.

There is so much happening in the niche, dynamic world of RPGs weapons.

For instance, Guild Wars 2 is aiming to add more diversity and support for unique play styles with the addition of Thief's Axe and Staff for the Warrior.