Gaming.

What is your opinion Animation industry in India?

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.

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?

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

name and shame!

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.

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.