SwissGames promotes indie delegation at GDC

All about the world, nations are finding out to worth their game industries and market them. Switzerland hopes to be one of the next to get on the map of nations with all-star gaming ecosystems.

Oliver Miescher, a media specialist at the SwissGames trade group inside Pro Helvetia, is major a delegation of 11 indie game corporations from Switzerland at the virtual Game Developers Conference, which begins on Monday.

In an interview with GamesBeat, Miescher stated that the game sector in Switzerland has been developing for the previous decade in hubs such as Lausanne, Geneva, and Zurich. Miescher stated Switzerland has more than 130 game studios, and they make more than one hundred games a year. Pro Helvetia expects the marketplace to develop 5.1% in 2022, and the Swiss Federal Council has decided to endorse the game development sector on the belief that games are a “digital cultural asset” that fosters creativity and technologies.

Miescher is nicely conscious that major corporations dominate games and the Swiss studios are more like the craft folks who make awesome watches. But all it requires is one or two successes to place a nation on the game sector map. Finland, for instance, has thousands of game developers thanks to the achievement of mobile game studios such as Rovio (Angry Birds) and Supercell (Clash of Clans).

“Our focus is on indie titles and creativity,” Miescher stated.

One of the largest Swiss successes so far is Farming Simulator, made by Giants Software in Zurich. The game series has sold more than 25 million copies and it has been downloaded 90 million instances given that 2008.

On leading of that, 3 Swiss studios — Blindflug Studios, Sunnyside Games, and Rosie Reality — have launched Apple Arcade games.

This year’s delegation incorporates:

These developers are attending GDC on the internet 2021 from July 19 to July 23 to financiers and publishing partners as nicely as to show off their games to the public.

Miescher pointed to the developer Hidden Fields with its title Mundaun as an instance of creativity amongst the Swiss designers. And he also referred to as out Okomotive with Far: Lone Sails. SwissGames delivers monetary help for prototypes of games, and it requires the developers to about 20 events a year to enable them achieve visibility and engage with the international marketplace.

SwissGames is aspect of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, and its partners include things like the Swiss Game Developers Association, the Swiss Chapter of the International Game Developers Association, Swissnex San Francisco, Ludicious — Zurich Game Festival, Zurich University of the Arts, HEAD Geneva, ECAL and ETH Zurich.

Originally appeared on: TheSpuzz