Greens Deputy Leader Scott Ludlam has won support to set Australia’s Senate on a search for our missing computer game development industry.
“This inquiry will help establish what the government should be doing to support Australia’s games industry and the employment, economic and creative benefits it delivers to the nation,” Sen Ludlam said, in a statement.
Ludlam noted the games sector of five years ago was vibrant, and there were a number of large scale development houses in operation domestically. Today that number has fallen to virtually zero, with the remaining development taking place in the smaller, handheld and mobile gaming sectors.
The fall of the Australian gaming development industry comes in the wake of the Australia government’s decision to close the $20 million Australian Interactive Games Fund earlier this year, just 12 months after the fund was formed.
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