Game developer census

Reviews News Blogs Shop. Recently CMP Game Group, a market research company that focuses on the professional game industry, compiled a census report on nearly companies in North America. CMP has determined that there are over 39, professional developers and publishers of games in the U.

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If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The best of CES A total of game development businesses were initially entered into the database. Between October 1 st , and November 1, , the remaining businesses were contacted and invited to participate in the Australia Digital Game Developer Census which was available at:.

Of the invited, all except 6 studios responded. A total of 19 businesses responded anonymously to the survey, of which 12 personally wrote to the researcher afterwards to confirm that they had in fact submitted the survey. Note: It is quite possible that some of the 6 studios that did not respond may in fact also be part of the group of the 7 remaining that submitted anonymously. All up; ten submissions were identified as duplicate entries. These were promptly removed from the database.

Four were from studio managers who alerted the researcher that two separate people from their organisation had submitted identical entries without realising the other had already responded.

In another instance, six entries were submitted from one college after a tutor had inadvertently shared the URL amongst his students who were not employed by a game development company anyway.

Fortunately though, the entries were obvious as they were all entered on the same day, with similar studio names, and were all marked with the same postcode as the college campus.

Figure 3 - Flowchart of how companies were verified before being sent an invitation. Many of the online lists from sites such as gamedevmap and Tsumea still included studios which had since been closed some of them notable.