The gaming industry is worth millions and Portugal for nearly 100 companies – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

The industry of video games worth more than the movie and music together and in Portugal alone, there are nearly one hundred companies in this area, revealed officials from Lisbon Games Week, which ends this Sunday, November 8, at FIL.

It ends this Sunday, November 8, at the Lisbon International Fair (FIL), the Park of Nations, the second edition of Lisbon Games Week, where visitors can watch the launch of new games, participate in competitions or recall the old ladies machinery that existed in the games rooms of the end of the last century.

In an area of ​​about 10,000 square meters, hundreds of consoles and computers present a wide variety of games available to all visiting the exhibition, which ends Sunday evening.

“This is the big event of the gaming industry, where you have large foyer premieres and video games that will be released now, at Christmas and up some that will be launched in 2016, “he told Lusa Pedro Silveira, responsible for organizing, adding that there also can meet the most famous” youtubers “or find out what they are up to the Portuguese in this area.

The Lisbon Games Week is also a space where young professionals can meet future vocations and meet some of Portuguese companies in the sector.

“At this point in the gaming industry is the most lucrative entertainment. It is more profitable than the movie and music industry together, “he told Lusa Ivan Barroso, the space engineer of Portuguese industry, noting that there are nearly 100 Portuguese companies.

Ivan Barroso believes Portugal is experiencing a new game development good and that this must be the product more easily exportable.

“The biggest Portuguese company employs well over 100 people,” he added, noting that to do a game are accurate professionals from various areas of the arts but also science.

In addition to the programmers and engineers a video game studio needs of designers, artists, cinematographers, screenwriters, sonoplastas, actors, 3D modelers, 2D animators and 3D, professionals in the advertising and marketing areas and even law, he said.

The latest studies indicate that in Portugal, the business of mobile video games are worth already 30 million.

Last year, about 30,000 people visited the first edition of the Lisbon Games Week and this year the organization expects to grow and reach 40 or 50 thousand visitors.

For Ivan Barroso, “this is the future industry of this millennium.”