The revenue of the online game business within the Republic of Croatia exceeds HRK 90.5 million – Muricas News

Since 2019, the businesses that make up the Croatian online game business have seen a rise in income and revenue, which in 2021 exceeded HRK 90.5 million in whole, and the share of exports in income is 80 %, or twice as a lot as the whole IT business, it was stated on the presentation on Tuesday new analyzes of Croatian gaming.

That is the primary evaluation of the Croatian online game business from 2019 to 2021, produced by the Cluster of Croatian Video Sport Producers with the assist of A1 Croatia.

The evaluation was introduced on Tuesday on the A1 Croatia convention. The Secretary Basic of the Cluster, Aleksandar Gavrilović, says that the whole revenues and income seek advice from 66 firms that in Croatia are largely engaged within the growth of video video games, but additionally do different issues, and that make use of virtually 500 folks in whole.

The excessive potential of the Croatian gaming business is proven by knowledge on the revenues and income of those firms, whose whole revenue in 2021 was over HRK 90.5 million, whereas in 2019 it was virtually HRK 34 million.

In 2021, whole revenues reached virtually HRK 486 million, in distinction to 2019, once they had been HRK 281.4 million.

“Considering these figures, in addition to the truth that the dominant type of work within the business is an indefinite employment contract, we come to the conclusion that it's the gaming business that turns artists into creators of Croatian export merchandise which are loved by tens of thousands and thousands of individuals all over the world,” he stated. is Gavrilović.

He added that in contrast to many different sectors, gaming has solely lately begun to take itself extra critically as an business.

In accordance with the evaluation, among the many firms with the very best revenues in 2021, Nanobit stood out with roughly HRK 301 million in income, whereas the second was Abest with HRK 54.2 million in income, and the third was Gamepires with HRK 27.3 million in income. That firm was lately purchased by the American Jagex, however they didn't disclose the main points of the transaction.

Within the high 5 are the businesses Orqa, which additionally offers with different issues, with revenues of HRK 11.3 million, and DEV with HRK 9.1 million.

Many of the employed – artists

Surveying for the needs of study of gaming firms, they discovered knowledge that almost all of workers are males, and 78 % are on indefinite contracts, which, in keeping with Gavrilović, can be a really uncommon instance in Croatia.

Most of them, 60 %, are between the ages of 26 and 35, and solely 2.5 % of them are international nationals, whereas in keeping with occupations, most of them, or 28 %, are numerous sorts of visible artists, adopted by programmers with a share of 24 % every. online game designers and producers.

Two-thirds of the analyzed firms work completely on their recreation merchandise, lots of which embody numerous Croatian locations and sights, equivalent to Šibenik, Vučedol, Gorski kotar, Dubrovnik, Žumberk and others.

“In 2021, it grew to become obvious that it's doable to earn a living from video video games by working in utterly totally different genres, which vary from, for instance, Escape Simulator carried out by Pine Studio in Samobor to informal cellular video games by Nanobit in Zagreb to high-budget PC titles equivalent to Gamepires’ SCUM, which and one of many best-selling video games on this planet, or Croteam’s Severe Sam collection,” emphasised Gavrilović.

Based mostly on the evaluation, Cluster president and Nanobit enterprise director Ivan Murat assessed that the good energy of the gaming business marks it as one of many drivers of financial growth in Croatia, however to ensure that it to be even stronger, some conditions are wanted.

These are better investments in training, to introduce one thing associated to gaming into training, in addition to to simplify the paperwork, encourage the event of research and alter public opinion.

“The expansion potential of this business is 10 instances in comparison with the present state, and with a purpose to obtain this, the assistance of the state can be wanted, from incentives for growth to the introduction of college packages”, stated Murat.