One thing has become clear in the computer industry over the past four decades: UI, not technology, governs large leaps in adoption. In the first age of personal computing, keyboard-centric character-based UI's limited access to only those sufficiently motivated (and antisocial) to suffer such dramatic abstraction of the world we live in. In the 2nd age, GUI's and a "Mouse" opened the usage of personal computers to a much broader audience and enabled a first change in game genres. Today, we are poised on the brink of the 3rd age. With touchscreen devices, the mouse has been replaced by our fingertips and games can be played by everyone, anytime, anywhere. Join Jens Begemann, CEO and Founder of Wooga, as he beholds this new age in game genres and proposes why this new UI standard is a revolutionary, not evolutionary, influence on our industry.

1. From Keyboards to Fingertips
Rethink Game Design!
Jens Begemann, Founder & CEO

6. NO

10. 70s

11. Pong

13. 80s Gamepads

14. Donkey Kong

15. Mario Bros

16. Mega Man

17. Light gun shooters

18. Duck Hunt

19. Keyboards

20. Oregon Trail

21. King’s Quest

22. Wolfenstein 3D

23. Doom

25. 90s Mouse

26. Solitaire

27. Minesweeper

28. Bejeweled

29. Hidden Object Games

30. The Secret of Monkey Island

31. Indiana Jones

33. Touch

37. Pros -
+
Cons
touch devices

38. +
Accelerometer Gestures
Multi-touch Direct Control

39. -
No mouse Can’t see No tactile
over through finger feedback

40. 1.4 billion
smartphones
ABI Research

41. 270 million
tablets

42. 2 billion
touch devices

45. Reset
your mind

46. How can tablets become
the best game machines?

47. Rethink
Game Design

48. wooga.com/jobs