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Career In Gaming
 Evolution Of the Industry -
• In the early 90's seen the dawn of standalone video game towers stationed around
almost every road facing shop with few square feet to spare. It was simple; Insert one
rupee coins and Game on, the machine would intermittently time out pop in another
coin and continue till you are out of cash rather the then pocket money.

• This era brought in the concept of video gaming back then it was 2D, school kids
found themselves getting whipped regularly and made truce with parents when they
brought home the 2 player video game. It helped because it kept the child at home, in
the zone of vigilance, a very powerful tool for over protective parents.

• .The next ten years seen it go vertical with lesser outdoor space and the only sports
entertainer in your living room was either your computer or if you had a higher budget,
the play station. Gaming was booming. Not so much in remote parts of India but
definitely in Metros. The dawn of online gaming remote India too was in reach.
 Introduction To gaming Course -

• Engineering courses have introduced a subject called 'gaming theory' an

introductory subject introduced in the last year for the current batch. I can safely
bet the next five years will see a specialised course in Gaming.

• Beyond education implications of these were far and wide, militaries across the
world use these to simulate scenarios for training purposes. Many Psycho killers
have derived inspiration from gaming violence.
 Scope of careers -
Ranges from
• Simple mobile games
• more complex PC games
• even more complex Play station, XBOX, Nintendo etc. games.
• Then follows the gaming cafe business, Reliance ADAG Group was the first to
launch a chain of cafes based on the Franchise model under its ZAPAK banner.
Online gaming is a big hit worldwide as evident from the success of Farmville.
• Mobile gaming will keep growing the business model of these games face lesser
challenges.
• With bandwidths expanding Online Subscription based gaming and Free gaming is
here to keep growing, not to say the conventional

For techies careers in gaming demand skills in animation, Flash, 2D, 3D effects, C++,
J2ME, BREW etc.
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