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The video game industry reached a market value of approximately $198.5 billion in 2021.
China leads in this market with revenues of more than 46 billion dollars from the sale and distribution of articles gaming.
As of July 2022, the TikTok platform has a potential reach of 1,023 million users.
The bet of the video game market has grown in recent years, which is why many brands are joining this world. This is the case of Netflix, which seems to be betting on this market, which is why the job vacancy has been revealed, where the streaming company is looking for developers for its first PC video game.
Without a doubt, this year has been a great year for the video game industry, which reached a market value in 2021 of approximately 198.5 billion US dollars and, as reflected a Mordor Intelligence reportit is expected that by 2027 this will increase to about 141.6 million.
Like all industries, this one also has its leading markets; According to a study by Spanish Video Game Development, China leads the world market, with a revenue in 2021 of more than 46 billion US dollars from the sale of games, consoles and other related components.
That same study reveals that other countries such as Japan and South Korea occupy the third and fourth position of the ranking world. Between the two of them they had an estimated income of more than 29 thousand 500 million dollars.
netflix and video games
According to the publication, the company is looking for a director for Los Angeles, United States, who is capable of leading a new work team and developing a “new AAA game for PC”, with which they seek to captivate more audience gamer.
“Creating a great game that players want to come back to repeatedly is our primary goal – you will be able to create, ship, and run a game without any competitive design restrictions due to monetization,” the offer details.
Until now, no details of the game that the streaming platform has in mind are known, the job offer reveals some points that it would be aiming for when making the leap to PC, where games have much higher standards than on cell phones.
In this sense, among the skills that the director must have is the experience of having worked on first and third person shooters, “live service” in constant evolution and rapid prototyping in Unreal Engine, graphic engine for the creation of titles.
Likewise, the company is also looking for someone who knows how to work on the development of a multiplayer modeboth in cooperative and competitive.
But also, a point that stands out, is that Netflix will not put “design constraints” to the director on monetization issues, since the company’s video games do not have internal payment systems such as ads or micro transactions.
However, along with this profile, the company is looking for other profiles such as a principal engineer who has experience in a “Third person action RPG.”
Let’s remember that some time ago Netflix has added staff with time of I work in the industry, like former Overwatch director Chacko Sonny, who leads the Los Angeles-based studio.
And this is how it is becoming more and more noticeable that the new generations are faithful users of social networks and technological platforms, which is why they are implementing new formats to include everything that users are looking for in their interfaces.
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