Indian Software experts are coming in increasing numbers to Britain to help the British develop and play computer games, according to a report by Britain's Screen Digest. Britain has the third largest market in computer games after the US and Japan, with a much smaller population than those two.
The computer games market doubled in 1999 from 1996, with about 36 million games sold. Britain has a population of 57 million.
The computer games market has topped a billion pounds and, at the current pace, is growing at about 20 per cent a year. But Britain does not have expertise to develop new games and that is where Indian software specialists are coming in.
"Whether it comes to animation or to computer games, we have many more people from India now getting into the scene here. This is no more about Indian wizards working on complex backend solutions," an Indian official told IANS.
The big players in the business are Sony, Sega, Microsoft and Nintendo. Indians are joining these firms in Britain and also other smaller firms that hope to develop their own games.
Many British companies are spending millions on developing computer games, with some of them spending more on this than the budget of a major film.
The business is taking encouragement from the findings in the report that people do not grow out of computer games. More people in the age group of 25 to 34 play computer games in Britain than people in the age group of 15 to 24.
This may be start of new opportunities available for Indian software developers
The computer games market doubled in 1999 from 1996, with about 36 million games sold. Britain has a population of 57 million.
The computer games market has topped a billion pounds and, at the current pace, is growing at about 20 per cent a year. But Britain does not have expertise to develop new games and that is where Indian software specialists are coming in.
"Whether it comes to animation or to computer games, we have many more people from India now getting into the scene here. This is no more about Indian wizards working on complex backend solutions," an Indian official told IANS.
The big players in the business are Sony, Sega, Microsoft and Nintendo. Indians are joining these firms in Britain and also other smaller firms that hope to develop their own games.
Many British companies are spending millions on developing computer games, with some of them spending more on this than the budget of a major film.
The business is taking encouragement from the findings in the report that people do not grow out of computer games. More people in the age group of 25 to 34 play computer games in Britain than people in the age group of 15 to 24.
This may be start of new opportunities available for Indian software developers