The Small Business Column: The games industry in Ireland

In this week’s article, Kehlan looks at the games industry in Ireland and why a trip to the Games Fleadh held LIT Thurles showed why more has to be done to support domestic games developers in Ireland.    

Few people realise just what goes into the games that we play — from teams of more than 2,000 people developing parts of juggernaut games like Fifa, to a group of nine working 14 hours a day to get their work ready for launch on game sellers like STEAM.

Everything that goes into a game needs a line of code and somebody has to write that code.