MANILA, (PNA)– The gaming development in the Philippines still lags in the global market because of technical aspects that challenge this segment of the Information Technology-Business Processing Management (IT-BPM) industry.
This is according to Andro Baluyut, Chief Executive Officer of GameOps Inc. which is a BPO company dealing with game development. He said the Philippines is sharing only a portion of the world’s US$ 68 billion-game development market.
”On the technical side, we are hilariously out gap,” Baluyut said.
However, he noted that Filipino game developers are competitive on the global scale in terms of talent, skill and creativity.
”We are actually competitive on the global scale,” he said.
“We have the creativity to create games. What does it take to create a game? It takes art, you have that programming expertise, (and) you have the design. Design is basically of concept. Filipinos are very creative. We can come up concept for games that’s not a problem,” the game development expert added noting that local talents should go for a certain purpose.
Thus, the country may benefit on foreign companies outsourcing services on the industry.
”Fill the outsourcing core because it helps us build our own expertise everything that we do for another companies,” Baluyut noted. “Because we cannot make games the next thing we can do is to service game.”
Aside from building expertise on the game development, local talents will also be able to prepare funds for their own research and development to soon create a game.
”We really need the expertise in programming or on lot of areas to really catch up to the level that we can create games on the global scale,” he said.