"Rajesh Rao, a 34-year-old businessman, spends a good part of his workday playing video games on his mobile phone. He also insists his new employees spend their first few weeks doing the same. He's not a flippant amateur refusing to grow out of his childhood. Instead he's part of a small breed of entrepreneurs trying to make India the world's studio for developing games on mobile phones, computers and consoles," reports AP.
(AP Photo/Gautam Singh)
"They're already attracting big names and big money, leveraging the same advantages that India's software industry uses: abundant programming skills and low wages. They compete for outsourced game development work from the West while also creating their own games."
Comment: The Indians have a disadvantage compared to the Brits. One of the cliches of UK gaming history is that we did well in games development because a generation of programmers grew up hacking Sinclair Spectrums and other cheap home computers. Indian programmers generally didn't. Whether that will sustain us through another decade is a more difficult question....
