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More jobs for Mobile and Social Game Developers and Publishers in Malaysia

Published by Afterschool.my on Sep 12, 2012, 06:31 am

  • Malaysia’s game development industry offers a great opportunity and demand for skillful and creative talents in the upcoming future.
  • The games industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. It has grown eight times since 2005 and globally, it is worth US$74 billion. In the US, the industry employs 120,000 people directly or indirectly, and the average pay for every game developer is US$90,000 per year.
  • Malaysia has about 700 people currently employed in the games industry, a figure that is hoped to grow considerably in the coming years. Moreover, the country is home to companies that produce a sizeable amount of content.
  • According to studies conducted by PricewaterHouseCoopers (PwC) and Ovum indicate that the games market would see high growth rates over the next four to five years.
  • The video games market in Malaysia is poised to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8% between 2011 and 2015.
  • Growth will be supported by the growing spending on game applications, especially social and mobile gaming, which will be four times more than spending on music. According to industry observers, the platform has undergone a lot of growth that there is tremendous opportunity in the mobile and social game monetisation space.
  • The International Game Developers Association (IGDA), Malaysia, lists up to 48 game companies, 10 of which engage in co-production with foreign partners. Employment is on-going both for the technically-inclined as well as for those in design, marketing and business backgrounds.
  • To establish Malaysia as a regional game development centre, the Performance Management & Delivery Unit (Pemandu) together with KDU University has established the MyGameDev2020 which will run as an entry point project under Economic Transformation Program’s Education NKEA (National Key Results Area).
  • MyGameDev2020 encourages students to join the game development course while getting rid of road blocks. Through this venture, the government hopes to see a significant increase of mass skilled talents in the local game development industry.
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