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 With touchscreen devices, the mouse has been replaced by our fingertips and games can be played by everyone, anytime, anywhere.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

10. 70s

11. Pong

13. Breakout

14. Gamepads
80s

15. Donkey Kong

16. Mario Bros

17. Mega Man

18. Light gun shooters

19. Duck Hunt

20. Keyboards

21. Oregon Trail

22. King’s Quest

23. Wolfenstein 3D

24. Doom

26. Mouse
90s

27. Solitaire

28. Minesweeper

29. Bejeweled

30. Hidden Object Games

31. The Secret of Monkey Island

32. Indiana Jones

34. Touch

38. Pros
Cons
touch devices
+
-

39. Accelerometer
+
Gestures
Multi-touch
Direct Control

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

41. Pros
Cons
touch devices
+
-

42. 1.4billion
smartphones
ABI Research

43. 270million
tablets

44. billion
touch devices

47. Reset
your mind

48. How can tablets become
the best game machines?

49. Rethink
Game Design

50. wooga.com/jobs
Twitter : @begemann