Play Time: Now A Growing Source Of Revenue

Let the games begin- it is an exciting, thrilling time for the Indian gaming industry.

With over a hundred studios in business of outsourced game development work or make their own games, we have a tremendous potential in fields of content developers, animators, sound directors, graphic designers, software developers, music composers, marketing, advertising and with mobile game development becoming so easy the race is on to start new ventures in gaming.

PC online games, mobile gaming with reasonable cost of developing and fine quality and sold reasonably priced gaming companies are giving a tough competition in other countries where cost of development, hiring people is quite high.

Also India is rich in content for developing games like famous characters in the Indian cinema, films, mythological stories, different cultural backgrounds and stories like Ramayana, Mahabharata, stories of Hanuman and Ganesha, are a rage here in India. Smart phones and curate distribution channels associated with them have made it easier to make money from games.

Even as PS3 and xbone game development is still a new concept in India, console gaming generated the largest revenue share from game hardware and software sales in the country in 2011, Rs.7.3 billion of the total revenue of Rs.13 billion, according to the Indian chambers and commerce industry. Mobile games generated sales of Rs.4.3 billion in India in the same year, growing 55% from the year before.