For the last several years, 30 new gaming companies, which create computer games, were opened in Ukraine. Over 20 ths people work in more than 80 companies of the Ukrainian gaming industry. The major part (40%) of developers’ offices is located in Kyiv. Then goes Odessa (16%), Dnipro (12%), Kharkiv (12%) and Lviv (6%).
What’s interesting, the creation of mobile games also prevails in Ukraine, as in the global market. According to the survey, Android (82%) and iOS (79%) are the most popular platforms for developing games among Ukrainian developers, K-Fund Media reports.
According to the trend, observed on the global market, 2018 is the first year, when the revenues from mobile games will exceed 50% of the total market, and by 2021, its share will be already 60%.
Unity (69%) is the most popular platform for developing games among the surveyed Ukrainian companies, while Action (63%) is most popular genre of developed games. 20% companies have only one game in their portfolio. Meanwhile, the quarter of companies already released more than 10 games.