In the past 15 years, with the advent of mobile phones, the gaming industry has experienced expansion and is growing continuously from year to year, said the director of Playstudios Europe, Nikola Mitić, at the presentation of the results of the gaming industry on the domestic and world markets.
“Today we gathered to introduce the media and the general public to the video game industry, and see what its status is in the country and the world.” Last year, on a global level, the revenue generated from gaming amounted to 220 billion dollars”, Mitić said.
As for job vacancies, Mitic points out that the demand for designers and programmers is high.
“The distribution of positions is colorful. There are a number of positions. Entering the industry itself is difficult, as it requires multidisciplinarity – knowledge of design, illustration, programming, marketing and others,” said Mitić.
As he emphasized, there are a large number of senior positions in the gaming industry.
The gaming industry in Serbia will grow
Sanja Žugić from Playstudios Europe and the Serbian Gaming Association (SGA), pointed out that there are currently more than 140 companies in the SGA that employ over 2,500 people.
She said that with the number of women in the video game industry, Serbia is ahead of the European average.
“Of the total number of employees in the gaming industry in Europe, 22 percent are women, while in Serbia the number of women is 30 percent.” In Playstuos Europe, 33 percent of women are employed, and they occupy 50 percent of leadership positions”, said Žugić.
As she explained, what is happening in the video game industry is quite large, so it is necessary to inform the public about the expansion of this industry.
She predicts that the gaming industry in Serbia will grow and that joining a gaming association is necessary, in order for manufacturers to position themselves more easily on the world market.
She stated that in our country there are more than 10 large studios, 50 medium and 60 small ones that produce video games.
SGA was founded in March 2018 in Belgrade, following the example of similar organizations that provide support to the gaming industry sector in the most developed economies of the world.
