Mobile Gaming Tech is Taking the Caribbean by Storm

Since the start of the current decade, there has been a significant rise in the opportunities of mobile app developers catering their technology to the residents of the Caribbean. Not only has it allowed for more developers from the region to build Caribbean-tailored apps, but mobile users locally have been able to access a huge range of applications from all over the world.

In 2011, BuddeComm found that the Caribbean and Latin America accounted for close to 12 per cent of the 3.97 billion mobile subscribers in the world, showing that the two regions combined to create a potential mobile hotspot seven years ago. Mobile devices are popular in the Caribbean, with mobile solutions joining web solutions as necessary in assisting with public issues, such as the Zika virus outbreak in 2016. Mobiles are also used for their entertainment values and convenience as well. Now, as mobile apps and, more specifically, mobile gaming apps have taken huge steps forward thanks to the use of new technology and laws such as the Gaming Act enacted in The Bahamas, there is a grand mobile gaming offering in the region. These are the gaming apps that have utilised the technology to bring a superb offering to all mobile users.

Bringing cricket to all hands in the Caribbean

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There’s no doubt that cricket is one of the most popular sports in the Caribbean, so it should come as no surprise that cricket games are in high demand across the island nations. While there have been plenty of computer options before, it took a little while for developers to build a mobile cricket game which delved into enough depth and represented the game well enough to garner praise from the cricket-loving community. While cricket and casual sports fans enjoyed its predecessor, World Cricket Championship 2 took the mobile cricket gaming experience to another level and has amassed more than 10 million downloads on Google Play alone. As explained by Medium, WCC2 is the best 3D cricket game on mobile devices, boasting tremendous depth and playing options. Defending the wickets, players get a massive 69 choices of batting shots while being able to guide the attack through eight different bowling actions that also need to consider the physics involved with the many different pitch conditions. With 18 international teams to play as in single player and online game modes and utilising the modern mobile device’s ability to handle good graphics and online play, this game has gone all-out to make the most of the platform.

Updating classic betting experiences

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One of the greatest innovations in the online casino scene over the past few years are live casino games. To provide players with the real-feel casino experience, developers began using live streaming and OCR technology to present a game which had players gaming in real-time with a real dealer. With the growing demand for mobile casino games, developers had to concoct a way of making their advanced games compatible with the smallest screen, which is exactly what Evolution Gaming did, optimising their games for mobiles without sacrificing the high-definition stream, real-time gaming or interactions with the dealers. But, as game developers, Evolution Gaming is only able to provide games for operators, so they needed a partner with mobile apps to deliver its games to the players. The Betway brand had already proved to be able to deliver its full online offering with its sports betting app that suits both iOS and Android devices while giving players access to all of their online betting markets, including in-play betting. The iGaming brand’s mobile casino application optimised for both iOS and Android devices was able to take on the demands of all of the Evolution Gaming titles. Live casino games on mobile apps epitomise the increased power of mobile devices, being able to offer games that used to be confined to computers.

Puzzlers utilising touch-screen controls

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With the exception of volume, power, and sometimes camera, mobile phones are all but devoid of buttons. Developers have done away with the plethora of physical buttons, offering a complete touchscreen interface: You can even login by fingerprint identification without pressing a button on many devices. Alongside these developments, mobile games became completely touch-friendly, with taps, swipes, and holds becoming the controls for most mobile app games. Of the many touch games on the app market, one franchise has staked its claim as a consistently high grossing iPhone game app across the majority of nations in the Caribbean. According to SimilarWeb, as of the 23rd of October 2018, the 2012-released Candy Crush Saga averages a top grossing rank of 5.6 across the 16 nations tracked, which includes its standing as the number one highest-grossing game in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Its successor, 2014’s Candy Crush Soda Saga, also ranks in the top 50 of 14 of those nations, sitting as high as second in Barbados and sixth in Anguilla at the time of writing.

With mobile devices more powerful than ever, gamers of the Caribbean are enjoying the many high-tech, optimised treats available on the app stores.