I'm currently working in gaming and I'll tell you this. You'll burnout sooner than other industry.

Software Test - QA

Product Manager

Talent Acquisition

Instead become a Gaming streamer and start streaming on FB and YouTube. People are printing money as a gaming creator courtesy to large number of unemployed people of India!

Software Engineer

Customer experience / business roles. How is the pay also?

I am looking to switch from ecommerce to gaming industry.  1. Need opinion if that will be a good move?  2. Will this industry grow?  3. Also, which are the best Indian startups to join in gaming i...

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I am looking to switch from ecommerce to gaming industry. 
1. Need opinion if that will be a good move? 
2. Will this industry grow? 
3. Also, which are the best Indian startups to join in gaming industry?

Gaming industry - future in india

Gaming industry - future in india- Grapevine

Need to see how many here are interested in the esports industry.

Esports & Gaming

Founder

Hey viners
Not heard a lot about gaming startups after the first 2-3 weeks of that new GST rule. How are the gaming startups like Dream11, Games24, Junglee, Zupee doing?
Has there been in shift in revenue model?

Gaming Startups post GST rule

Consultant

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Happy friday folks!

Starting off with the Watercooler - the place for all casual conversations and thoughts that might feel too small to make a post out of :) 

Look forward to hearing from you folks!

Daily Watercooler (21st July)

Building a gaming studio as india lack of good gaming studio. It will be a big investment. First would launch some portfolio games, which helps getting users and recognition. After having some revenue, we will plan to go big and focus on building good multiplayer games.

If interested, do connect with me.

Building a gaming studio.

Want to start a startup on my own in RMG gaming industry. Is it good idea to start?

Is a real money gaming startup good idea to start?

Engineering Manager

Indian Gaming scene is pure shit. 💩 
Everyone is stuck in PUBG. No proper culture as well.

Neither a proper game has been launched from India. 
 No one is interested in this industry at all?

Gaming.

There are so many startups failing all around.
Many which I thought were doing something great also have been duds. Some epic surprise failures would be dunzo, pharmeasy, etc.
It looks like there will be many more such revelations in coming days 😐😐

Please share list of some stable and good startups (Series B and beyond) which I should be targetting.

Which startup is worth joining?

Anyone building for the media and entertainment industry? Would love to learn if you know anyone who is building for this.

Growth Manager

Looking for sectors to focus in the near future - want to get into entrepreneurship’

What do the people of India - any solid sectors that can have a great impact  or be looked into




Love to hear from anyone on this - looking for problem to work on 
And hopefully build a start up  in few year or two 

Anyone ?

Futuristic ideas for a better india HeLp

Customer Success

What the post says. Albeit my sincere condolences to those laid off! The ruling is really unfortunate for many who joined the Real Money gaming space in india but this was also inevitable. I know people who have tried to get out of the Indian RMG space because they didn’t like the ethics of it or saw it’s impending doom, with all the uncertainty around the legality.

The reason I’m for it is because it ruined the beginnings of the Indian gaming industry. Indian gaming companies only focused on learning the skills to build stronger hardcore gambling games. Some companies had the opportunity to diversify into using the money to make mistakes and learn to make great games. Maybe hire outside talent to learn better and bring the disciple of Game Design to India. But the majority have failed to do so. I hope this delivers significant pressure to the few that survive to try harder at understanding the gaming landscape and attempt to make games they themselves would play. (The majority of game teams in in Indian gaming companies, do not play / enjoy their own game - Read “Don’t eat their own dog food” cliche)

Right now, the Indian gaming ecosystem is like if Hollywood was run by product managers instead of good writers. They just study what “works” and do more of that, missing the point of artistic exploration and concepts of novelty, story-telling and fun. (That is happening in a way, given the direction of constant re-boots of old movies - lead by a very Product MBA mindset with only 2-3 orders of thinking) - incapable of deconstructing “fun” itself (even though some people claim to be able to))

A bit of a jumble of thoughts but just wanted to get that thought out.

Confession Bear : India Gov killed Real Money Gaming and I’m for it

I will start. Don't ask me to prove anything.

1. The CEO of MPL bought a ~20cr house in embassy grove, Bangalore just before laying off 50% of the MPL team this week.

2. VC funded Live streaming apps like rooter, eloelo,  are basically frauds. Get tonnes of cheap users by running ads that look like porn, the real engagement is really bad unless they do giveaways. They use VC money to show porn ads and do giveaways, brag about downloads & engagement to raise even more VC money. It's a total ponzi.

Got some secrets off your chest 🧰

A relative of mine lost INR 20 Lakhs in RummyCircle. He is above 50 years old and lives in a village.

Investor

Folks at Dream 11, Games24×7, Junglee, etc how's the environment in the office? Have there been any updates from the leadership regarding the direction they'd be taking? 
As of now, here at Gameskraft it's an elephant in the room with everybody in denial, talking about how we can still survive and no updates from leadership yet.

Thoughts on 28% GST for online gaming?

I’m from a esports gaming company. Spoke to my CEO regarding this today morning.  
  
 This move is completely short sighted and reinforces how bad policymakers are in our country. This might kill small companies in the short/medium term altogether.  
  
 Gaming companies based out of India that were looking to raise funding will have the hardest time doing so going forward. 28% GST + income tax on the company end. ₹100 deposited directly being reduced ₹72 in your account. The government ends up earning almost 50% from players AND the company.  
  
 I’m seeing boomers applaud this move as they want the new generation to “focus more on less time wasting activities”, but they don’t know anything about the numbers of the gaming industry outside of India. Indian esports and gaming is just at the beginning of its rise. This move sets it back in terms of investment and revenue heavily.  
  
 Luckily, we’ll have an entity setup in the UAE soon, and that entity will in a few months become the holding entity, with the Indian entity being a subsidiary. Many more companies will do this, and the government will see how this increase in taxes backfires because companies will just create holding entities outside of India :)

Product Head

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Looking for job switch in IT software developer with salary expectation of 20LPA and I have two years of work exp please suggest good startup companies based out of Mumbai or Remote ones

Software Developer

I'll go first.

1. even healthcare
2. Hike/Rush
3. Spartan Poker
4. Ultrahuman
5. Invideo

Mention the reason too if possible.
Let's discover some hidden ones. Brownie points if you mention startups that only a few have heard of.

If you know a less-known Indian startup that is doing some crazy shit (not so obvious ones), do mention.

Your turn.

What are some cool startups (Indian) you would love to work with?

As an ex-Ultrahuman employee, I can confirm that you don’t want to work there. 
  
 The culture is cut throat. I was there for an year and I got a total of 3 weekends where I didn’t touch my laptop. 
  
 Credit where its due, founders and people are amazing, it’s just that the expectations are so high that you are constantly overworked.

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