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Hi everyone,
Very general information will be released every couple of weeks to update the count for the games industry in Ireland. This is for the Irish Computer Games Survey (ICGS)
Please help us to get an accurate count of the number of people working in the industry for February 2012. If you can help by tweeting, emailing, or the old fashioned way of giving someone the link, please do!
We know there are tons more than the six in the first update, so please fill it in for your company.The survey is available at http://tinyurl.com/irishgamesindustrysurvey
Update 1:
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I wonder what the user count is for this site?
We could probably match it that way.
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Wow great idea!
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Hi again,
I got another three more, so the update is below. Also, considering we all know that Dublin will have tons more than everywhere else, I’m going to change that graph to show the number of counties where the industry is active, and maybe leave that till the end.
Anyway, keep spreading the word, if we can get a couple of companies doing it every day, then it’s only going to take a couple of weeks for us to have a pretty decent estimate as to the size of the industry. Also, if you are from the North, or are an Irish team abroad, please fill in the survey and let us know what countries, as opposed to county, you’re in.
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We have some more respondants, but i’d like to get a few more before updating the results.
Please continue to help spreading the word about http://tinyurl.com/irishgamesindustrysurvey
Thanks
Jamie
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So the news about job losses at Activision Blizzard is disappointing
see http://www.thejournal.ie/gaming-company-blizzard-to-cut-200-jobs-in-cork-370105-Mar2012/
Aphra
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Hi Jamie,
It would be interesting if you could show a breakdown of where these jobs lie, department-wise…what is the breakdown of dev / localiastion / support / etc? -
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Hi everyone,
We got a few more in from some new counties.
Very general information will be released every couple of weeks to update the count for the games industry in Ireland.
Please help us to get an accurate count of the number of people working in the industry for February 2012. If you can help by tweeting, emailing, or the old fashioned way of giving someone the link, texting it to them, or sitting them down with it on your smartphone in the pub and making them do it :) .
We know there are tons more than the twenty five in the sixth update, so please fill it in for your company. The survey is available at http://tinyurl.com/irishgamesindustrysurvey
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Hi everyone,
I have set up http://irishgamessurvey.wordpress.com/ so I don’t have to keep spamming the forums.
Thanks
Jamie
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We got a big burst of new participants today (thanks everyone), so I am happy to update the figures. Also, we got clarification on one or two of our estimates.
As a lot of companies don’t break down their figures into full/ part time etc, i’ve reverted back to the overall amount. Also, Silicon Republic posted this http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/26589-211m-spent-locally-on/
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Hi Jamie,
Not wanting to sound too negative but a pie chart that represents each piece as an equal quantity regardless of size is pretty uninformative. Knowing the actual distribution of games studios would be more interesting- ie. how much bigger is dublin compared to cork, etc.
Also I don’t know how the response has been but it would be interesting to see a breakdown between the different roles- ie. there are 2416 jobs in Ireland but how many are customer support and localisation compared to art and design.
Not sure if your planning to do this analysis but from what’s posted here it’s not saying much about industry specifics.
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well it is creeping up.
I think we will have a much greater number of companies than in 2009 and probably some increase in overall employment.
everyone on the boards needs to get everyone they know in the industry in Ireland esp. to fill this out as nobody seems to have a complete database of companies – so word of mouth it is people.
Aphra
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I’m not going to update the results yet, but i’m up to 45 respondants now. I’ve spent the last while collating all of the companies involved in games here in Ireland, and i know it’s still incomplete, but pretty large and growing. I so far count 80 companies involved with games in ireland, but some of these i’m not sure if they’re still running or not, so i think 70 is a closer number.
They come from these counties
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Hi all,
Ok, I’ve had a lot of time over the weekend to try and draw this survey to a close, and I think i’ve a pretty comprehensive picture of the state of the entire industry in all of its forms in Ireland.
I have gone through all the companies, plus the ones found through various forums and am putting in very conservative estimates for those I could not contact directly. I have many in as one or two employees, and some of the larger companies I’ve taken pretty low estimates too.
But now, I am come to the point where I can see the size and scale of the industry, and i’d say the figures will be even higher if we can get some of these clarified.
So dun dun dun… In February 2012 it seems the the Irish (North and South) Games Industry is this:
So 117% growth in three years!I’ll start preparing a report now and aim to publish it at the end of the month, going into detail of jobs by sector, the sectors, types of companies etc.
Thanks a million to everyone who has participated, and for those who helped me along the way!
Cheers
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Yep, what Aphra said. Yellow is your friend! Thanks for this Jamie, but it needs more colours :)
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