Commentary: For a nation of a avid gamers, why doesn’t Singapore have extra homegrown video video games?
DATA IS A KEY INGREDIENT
As soon as the expertise and assist are in place, playability stays the key sauce within the recipe for a recreation’s success, and Singapore has produced some video games which might be onerous to place down. For instance, Garena’s Free Hearth has greater than 1 billion downloads worldwide and was the highest-grossing cell recreation in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
To efficiently make partaking video games like these, knowledge is a key ingredient. Native studios can take inspiration from different recreation makers in Asia, together with Japanese pioneer SEGA, which analyses consumer knowledge to hook gamers in.
To forestall sections of a recreation from turning into too tough to finish and quickly sapping a gamer’s persistence, builders can modify the gameplay to forestall gamers from giving up and shifting on to a different recreation. This flexibility is essential to a recreation’s success, and, within the age of declining consideration spans, helps game-makers evolve content material to maintain gamers riveted to their screens.
Dwelling to Triple-A studios and tens of millions of avid gamers, Singapore has each the expertise and knowledge to develop a thriving gaming business. Let the video games start!
Chong Yang Chan is Managing Director, ASEAN & Better China at knowledge integration and analytics firm Qlik.
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