India's Growing Game Industry

India's gamers are top drawer but why do games made here rarely pick up steam?   Special thanks to Nodding Heads Games!

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00:30Yeah, I did feel amazing, like looking at the architecture and feeling like I'm part

00:40of that era.

00:42And the first thing I thought is why is this not a video game?

00:50Gaming is a waste of time and game, you know, keep playing games and nothing's gonna happen.

00:56These are very common statements, everyone suffers from now and then.

01:16I had to fight for it with my family and it was very interesting.

01:30So our past generations, because the fact culturally, it was like only a minority used

01:36to play video games.

01:38And I will say that even now, like people think games have gone mainstream in India,

01:42but I honestly feel no, we are only looking at if you're only looking at PUBG and its

01:48numbers, that's not the entire gaming industry.

01:5715-20 years ago, getting a computer at your home was a big deal.

02:03And if something happened to your computer, you would be screwed and I know that because

02:08I've done things.

02:10So hardware is still taxed in India, like traffic cards are more expensive in India than US,

02:16which doesn't make sense.

02:25One of my game trainers, he told me that I should change the character of my game from

02:34an Indian to a USA person.

02:37So it appears and relates to that audience.

02:40But I didn't agree with him then.

02:42And now, well, Raji is out.

02:44And I think we are far beyond that point where people only care about, you know, this is

02:52a male or if this is from USA, the guy is from New Zealand.

02:57So I'm going to play him because he's from there.

03:00Like what we are doing was highly risky, anything could just blow up any time and we

03:06might not see the light of the day and all our savings go down the drain.

03:10This industry has enormous potential, people want to make games, people want to make games

03:17like Raji or even better games, whatever they want to make, that funnel needs to be