In an effort to encourage budding entrepreneurs, game designers, enthusiasts, aspirants, programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers, NASSCOM will also organize various competitions like the Game Super Pitch, the Game Designer Challenge, and the Games Mela, at the GDC. These contests will help enable the creation of a trained and skilled talent pool in India and encourage and facilitate members to uphold world class quality standards and enhance operational excellence.
As part of its initiatives to promote the growth of the gaming Industry in India, NASSCOM, in association with International Game Developers Association (IGDA), will release a whitepaper, during the conference, on casual gaming sector in India. The whitepaper will throw light on the growth and revenue prospects of casual gaming sector in India.
The whitepaper will outline the factors and trends that will drive the casual gaming market in India. The whitepaper will also discuss the major challenges that the industry will face in the times to come and will throw light on the way forward for the industry, identifying the important pillars on which the industry will base its growth.
The Indian animation and gaming industry is today at an inflection point – with increasing demand for outsourcing services supplemented by a fast growing domestic market. The gaming industry is a significant user of technology, and can showcase India’s well established credentials in the technology and services offshoring space, in addition to playing a seminal role in developing India’s domestic media and entertainment industry.
About NASSCOM
NASSCOM® is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPO industries in India. NASSCOM is a global trade body with more than 1300 members, which include both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India. NASSCOM's member and associate member companies are broadly in the business of software development, software services, software products, consulting services, BPO services, e-commerce & web services, engineering services off-shoring and animation and gaming. NASSCOM’s membership base constitutes over 95% of the industry revenues in India and employs over 2.32 million professionals.
