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[Gaming] Poland will be the next major player in computer games industry
Game designers in Poland are gearing up to take over a big share of the role-playing game industry.
It may sound as a big surprise but Poland was already responsible for a great share in the past for example the title 'The Witcher', which released in 2007, was based on the work of fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski. The game sold 1.7 million copies and earned €750,000 for Warsaw-based publisher 'CD Projekt RED', leading to a listing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The sequel, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, will earn the company fare more because of a greatly improved deal.
Games, a Polish export product
The most expensive Polish game ever mad is Bulletstorm; Game development country People Can Fly spent 14 million euro to develop it and more than 450,000 copies were sold the first three weeks alone. Meanwhile the country's best-selling game, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, released a year ago, has already earned €6.25 million for producer 'City Interactive'.
Industry observers say the sector is now so successful that there's a shortage of animation specialists. However, this shortage will shrink in the future because both 'Krakow's AGH University of Science and Technology' and 'Warsaw's Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology' have started to offer in depth-courses for programmers and designers specializing in role-playing games. The fact that Poland itself encourages more growth in role-play gaming is logical since this part of the market is good for 40 billion euros.
//Random CGTopia
