The Rise and Challenges of the Game Development Sector in Egypt

The latest statistics published by Niko Partners last February indicate that Egypt includes 58% of the total number of players in the Arab region, surpassing Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, which respectively include 30% and 11% of the number of players. Therefore, it was It is normal for Egyptian companies to appear trying to develop their own games and enter the global gaming industry sector.

The game development sector in Egypt is not the product of recent years, but rather its success dates back to 2008 when Timeline Interactive was able to cooperate with Ubisoft to publish its game CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars. Which was from a first-person perspective and revolved around a set of future wars in which supernatural abilities became part of the weapons that waged this war.

Cooperation with international companies was not limited to the “Time Line Interactive” studio only, but also extended to many local companies, most notably “Instinct Games” and the Egyptian game development studio “Rumbling”. As in 2019, it was able to 3 Egyptian companies are expected to take first place in the Africa Cup of Electronic Games competition: “Agora” in first place, “Al-Qutb” studio for game development in second place, and “Arcanium” in third place.

Although the companies mentioned above had an intermediary role in the world of game development and were able to reach a great position, trying to reach them is difficult, whether by accessing the company’s electronic accounts and communicating with them or even trying to reach their offices, which indicates their complete absence. About the arena, or at least provide the available information about it and stop updating it.

This was not limited to the absence of companies that were prominent at that time, but also to the absence of new companies working in the field of game development, despite the presence of skills that had previously been able to provide successes.

The journey of searching for the obstacles that caused the disappearance of these successful companies or even the absence of new companies from the scene is not arduous, as they can be very predictable, and at the forefront are the economic conditions that the country is going through, as developing games is one of the very expensive endeavors that requires high-level hardware. Higher than others available to the public, it also requires extensive funding and a long time in development in order for the game to reach the level it deserves.

Of course, some of the technical challenges can be attributed to the lack of sufficient skills and training in the latest 3D gaming graphics technologies and the world of game development, in addition to artificial intelligence skills and machine training to respond to user commands, but these are not all parts related to developing a game.

The process of developing games is also more difficult and challenging than producing unique cinematic films, and it requires a wide range of technical, literary, and graphic skills to build the game world and the plot that surrounds the characters in it and invent new playing methods that suit the story and are consistent with it, which makes the cost of developing games rise significantly. Large. (Al Jazeera)

2024-04-11 16:40:51
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