6 of the top 10 most highly rated developers in 2010 made iPhone and iPad games
Develop 100 list proves mobile gaming boom
Industry website Develop has revealed its annual ‘Develop 100’ list, representing the most successful studios working in the games industry today. And, startlingly, over half the list is made up of iOS developers, with App Store titles taking up six of the top ten places.
The Develop list, which is rated solely on each studio’s 2010 Metacritic performance, has World of Goo creator 2D Boy in second place, just ahead of ZeptoLab, developer of casual smash Cut the Rope.
Also in the top ten are Japanese studio Media Vision (for Chaos Rings), Sweden’s 1337 Game Design (Dark Nebula) and Germany is represented by TheCodingMonkeys (Carcasonne). Rockstar Leeds also features thanks to the superb iOS version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Over 50 of the developers featured in the full list develop for iPhone and iPad, with the vast majority being independent - a significant indicator of the seismic shift generated by the boom in mobile gaming.
