BANGALORE, INDIA: If Indian Gaming industry is compared to the gaming industries of Europe or US, you'll find that it's still at a nascent stage, but going by the reports of NASCOMM or Price Waterhouse Cooper, it is poised to grow at a tremendous rate in future. So if you are spending countless hours in front of your PC or console, pounding away at keyboard or controller to drive crazily or shooting down enemies, then you can seriously think of chalking out a career in games development.

The growing Indian games industry has opened up career avenues for professionals who have a unique combination of technology and creativity, and are passionate about gaming technologies and culture.

Games development as a career is not only fun-filled and creative, but also provides attractive global employment prospects.

Hot opportunities in Gaming
Entertainment industry is growing at a fast pace in India, and gaming has become a new genre of entertainment that is making huge progress in this vast landscape. As per the NASSCOM report, the gaming industry in India was estimated at $167 million in 2008 and is poised to see an annual growth rate of 49% to reach $830 million by 2012.

The gaming industry comprises of not only PC and console based games but also mobile and online games. And with the spurt in broadband and mobile penetration in India, the latter two are transforming into a strong market segment for games development. The gaming consumption across platforms--PC, console or mobile has seen tremendous growth in the past few years.

Mobile gaming has significantly caught up in India owing to the fact that mobile penetration in India is greater than PC penetration, and also that many Indian telecom providers are providing mobile games as value added services to their subscribers. The online gaming sector is fast growing in India and is being driven by the fact that availability of bandwidth isn't a hindrance for Internet users in India any more, and also that they have disposable incomes. Not to forget about social networking sites like Facebook, which have become a new platform for gaming.

All this has opened business opportunities for Indian game development companies to tap the market, and mobile gaming accounts for the larger piece of the Indian gaming industry and the trend is only expected to continue. Companies like Dhruva Interactive, Lakshya Digital, FXLabs are not only developing games for the Indian audience, but are also increasingly getting outsourced games development works from major international game development companies.