Many creators have fled Russia because developers can’t develop games in peace and then sell them to players from the US or Europe. The authorities are aware of the problem and want to act: it was previously proposed to prepare “own game engine”, but the project turned out to be too expensive.
However, the situation is funny, because on December 15, a meeting of industry representatives with officials was held in Russia, where a much more ambitious project than the usual engine was presented.
Officials want to create “Russian Electronic Arts, which will help release high-quality games from Russia.” The ministry wants to create new institutions whose task will be to stabilize and corrupt the entire local industry.
“Rosgame” is to be the center of “strategic development” of Russian industry, which will focus on “industry regeneration and development” and “game development and publishing”. However, it is difficult to take these plans seriously, because earlier the Russians had problems with creating a single game engine, and now officials want … much more.
Rosgame should offer three absurd “scenarios”. The first requires a disbursement of 7 billion dollars and thanks to this figure the Russian industry is about to be “reborn” so that by 2030 Russia will be among the “top 20 countries in the field of game development”.
For the second (“ambitious scenario”), $20 billion is needed and this amount should provide an “industry breakthrough”, but unfortunately what officials have actually planned has not been confirmed. However, we got to know the details of the most expensive project: for 50 billion dollars (“leadership scenario”), the Russians want to become one of the leaders in the industry by 2030, prepare four new game development engines and even two consoles.
The plans are…ambitious, but the authorities have confirmed that they currently don’t know how to finance even the cheapest idea.
