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GDAI's Program Director, Machaiah Kalengada, dives into the unique combination of India's 550 million young gamers and an industry ready to build its own IP. He reveals what's really happening in India's booming game development scene.
Gaggle Studios reveals how they built a party gaming hit and what the game industry can learn from Goose Goose Duck's trajectory.
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Andrew Naicker of Skystone Games has spent 14 years watching the "ship faster, market louder" playbook fail. Here's what he actually builds and what it takes to launch in 2026.
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Eliza Chrichton-Stuart
Head of Operations, GAM3S.GG
Head of Operations at GAMES.GG, a platform building discovery infrastructure across a fragmented gaming ecosystem.
Richard Bartle
Game Design Professor, University of Essex
Co-creator, MUD1. Author of the first book about virtual world design "Designing Virtual Worlds", New Riders, 2003. Independent consultant, Emeritus Professor of Game Design.
Machaiah Kalengada
Program Director, GDAI
Program Director at Game Developer Association of India, the national industry body representing India's game development ecosystem.
Shawn Fischtein
Co-founder and CEO, Gaggle Studios
CEO at Gaggle Studios, the creative force behind the hit multiplayer social deduction game, Goose Goose Duck.
Elizaveta Savenkova
Chief Business Development Officer, ZiMAD
CBDO at ZiMAD, mobile games developer and publisher, leading global business development, managing partnerships with industry giants and driving long-term growth initiatives.
Andrew Naicker
Senior Product Manager, Skystone Games
Senior Product Manager at Skystone Games, a multiplatform gaming company built for the world, full-service publisher, and a partner helping independent developers bring their ideas to life - built to last and built on fun.
Lexi Sydow
Chief Analyst & Founder, The ATTN Economy
Co-founder of The ATTN Economy, an independent media company and consultancy on a mission to make the dynamics shaping public attention visible, understandable and actionable.
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