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Untapped zones of Bangladesh
Many of you must have played videogames. Imagine you are playing games that are created by your countrymen! Yes you've heard it right. Days are not far away when you can play world-standard games made by Bangladeshis. Co-financed by European Commission, a project "IT-Upgrade Bangladesh: a partnership" is underway with Universität Bremen (Universitë De Brëme Institute De Technologie), Chember de commerce et d'industrie de Paris and BASIS (Bangladesh Association of Software & Information Services). Selected by BASIS, 26 persons from 26 local companies are being given training by experts under the project. The project will train them on multimedia and videogames. Alexandre Topol, Emmanuel Guardiola and Pedro Martins Alessio--three experts on game programming, designing, graphics, animation and multimedia from France--were here to impart training in the second phase of the training session which was held from June 7 through June 12. Two of them have experience of working with world-renowned videogame making company Ubisoft. In an interview with StarTech they said they've seen lots of potential in the trainees. All they need is guideline and practice. They also said that Indian and Chinese companies are only producing mostly graphical assets and some tools for games. US and European game-making companies are not ready to outsource technical and important coding for games but they might outsource the designing part. These kinds of works can be easily done in Bangladesh. For example they said they have visited one of the Bangladeshi companies which is working for a Japanese company and they were very pleased to see that the Bangladeshi company is able to fulfill the high requirements of the Japanese company. If such companies can reach this level of requirements it's a good sign for Bangladesh. That said, the gaming market is growing everyday as gamers are increasing in numbers, since everybody is now playing on PCs, consoles and online. If one could get creative and innovative enough, it's a good chance to capture the market. Earlier it was really hard to let others know if you had any good product as internet was not available. But nowadays it's easy to exhibit your products with the internet, they said. They also said it's like a supermarket; if you can showcase what you have got, people will come. Bangladesh should do this to mark its footsteps in this field. The experts left Bangladesh on June 13. The next phase of training session of the project will be held in August-September.
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