What's What! Video Game Facts (59/365)

Although for some it takes them of surprise there was a video game industry in Venezuela, today with the considerable difficult economic investment in this field has been seen more than limited, the possibility of acquiring some gamer technologies It can also affect the companies that develop in the area of ​​video games, in fact, there are many reasons

Even though in recent times most of these developers in Venezuela try to achieve success in the industry by directing their activities to games for Smartphone, they focus their first video games for platforms such as Android and Apple iOS achieving their best dollar income through Google Play and Apple Store, participating in local and foreign contests that could make another injection in dollars to boost the projects and bring the same titles to another level that is for platforms such as Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox and game for PC and Mac and through Steam as independent developers or freelancers.

La Cosa Entertainment it's one of those companies founded in a house in Caracas by Víctor Velasco and Ginaris Sarra who started worked together on Klaus a PC, PS Vita and PS4 game to compete at the Square Enix Latin America Game Contest 2012, the puzzle platformer game was released on Q2 2016, the motto of the company is "Create games that you play in order to exercise your imagination".

Others who aren't intimidated by the situation in the country GASP GAMES Gasp Inc is a video game studio from Caracas as well, focusing on mobile experiences. The development team is all Venezuelan and editing and marketing is handled in the UK by the EA / Chillingo team with whom they released their latest Power Ping Pong games, a very fluid intuitive and multiplayer controls available on the Google Play and Apple Store , "We make wonder happen" is the catchword of this guys.

There are probably many more companies and developers that are from Venezuela, working in larger companies, outside the country, due to the limitations, not only of technology, but also of foreign currencies as well as payments from abroad to the country, in addition to some pages restricting trade with Venezuelans.