Zainuddin Fahad of Ogre Head Studio first started working in the games industry in India several years ago, at the age of 19. He started as an artist making games in GameMaker in his spare time. He enjoyed the work and the things he was learning, but eventually found it all growing stale.

"The outsourcing industry for games is thriving and booming in India but I had realized that we don't have an identity. We are slogging here working as hard as anybody in the games industry, contributing to AAA games. but nobody knows or even cares about us," Fahad says. "It's not that we don't have talent over here, but the problem, I believe, is with the vision and leadership, which is not led by aesthetics and designs but rather other things which do not even matter." According to Fahad, India's indie game development scene is still new, compared to those of North America and Europe. "We are still new to game development and design, and things like meet-ups, game events, even conferences are extremely rare," he says, "which adds to the problem of awareness. There is huge gap in the indie game community here, making it extremely difficult to help each other out and grow as a whole."

The difficulty of traveling to big trade shows like GDC and PAX is another roadblock the Indian indie game community faces. "The Indie scene over here is growing very slowly due to lack of exposure," Fahad laments. "If you check out most of the ...