Report · January 1, 2022

Slovak Game Industry Report 2022

Published by Slovak Game Developers Association

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Dear friends, I am proud to present the brand new Slovak also see the post-IDFA peak making game Game Industry 2022 report by the Slovak Game marketing more challenging than ever. Plus Developers Association. Firstly, allow me to give spiralling inflation and low availability of free some perspective about our small yet thriving capital will ratchet up the difficulty to hell mode industry in the larger context. with perma-death. Although 2021 was a challenging period on the global market, the game industry as a whole navigated the crisis relatively well and the Slovak game industry emerged with flying colours! Despite the second covid year and the post-IDFA period, our industry grew both in terms of developers as well as revenue - GJ to all of you - please check out the figures in the report. Harsh times call for leadership from all of us: the pandemic and war in Ukraine have taught us that there’s no ‘us’ and ‘them’. It’s impacting all of us, not just the old and the weak, the attacked, … the others. In 1989, “v jednote je sila!” (“strength is in unity” - not to be mistaken with the game engine!) carried us through the crisis. We now need to prove that we’re a strong and coherent community that can

and ‘them’. It’s impacting all of us, not just the old and the weak, the attacked, … the others. In 1989, “v jednote je sila!” (“strength is in unity” - not to be mistaken with the game engine!) carried us through the crisis. We now need to prove that we’re a strong and coherent community that can Unfortunately, we were dealing with far more than ‘just’ covid and IDFA. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created a global crisis that also impacts our industry: increasing inflation, decreasing available investment capital, impacting the emerging blockchain gaming sector, etc. But of course, nothing of this compares to the war suffering of Ukrainians themselves. successfully navigate the crisis together: we’re playing a coop MMO endgame boss fight that calls on the whole clan to support each other. A huge thanks to all of you for supporting and growing our precious community! GLHF, Filip Fischer Founding member of SGDA Our hearts are with Ukraine and our fellow developers in that country. So what awaits us? We’ll see each other at Game Days Košice in November in person - as the covid pandemic draws to a close. But we’ll

ACTIVE COMPANIES: COMPANY PROFILES EMPLOYEES 70 Years active Overall number of employees Number of employees in top 10% of companies COMPANY LOCATION 33% 17% 29% 14% 7% 514 476 524 762 870 1079 1314 668 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 (est.) Less than 3 years 3+ years 5+ years 10+ years 15+ years Geographical location Top 10 companies based Company size based New working positions opened in 2021 209 Legal form on employee headcount on employee headcount 1. Pixel Federation 1 - 200+ New working positions opened in 2022 (est.) 235 30% 79% 14% 6% 1% 2. PowerPlay Studio Median age of employees 30 6% East Private company Self-employed Physical person NGO 3. Inlogic Software 64% Central Primary orientation 4. SuperScale 5 - 40 to 100 Working positions based Positions hardest on specialization to fill West 5. Nine Rocks Games 21% Programmer 27% Programmer 70% 17% 13% 6. Studio727 18% Graphic artist 14% Game designer Own game Gamedev related services 13 - 10 to 39 13% Game designer 13% Graphic artist development and activities Outsourcing 7. Games Farm 12% PR, marketing, sales 13% Marketing, PR Location based on city 8. NOISE artillery 16 - 5 to 9 9% Other 12% Animator

727 18% Graphic artist 14% Game designer Own game Gamedev related services 13 - 10 to 39 13% Game designer 13% Graphic artist development and activities Outsourcing 7. Games Farm 12% PR, marketing, sales 13% Marketing, PR Location based on city 8. NOISE artillery 16 - 5 to 9 9% Other 12% Animator 48% 20% 32% Commissioned work and outsourcing 9. QORPO 19 - 2 to 4 8% Animator 9% Producer 50% 24% 19% 7% 10. 60fps 7% Tester 7% Data analyst Bratislava Košice Other No commissions Outsourcing parts and Outsourcing parts Outsourcing parts and full 16 - 1 7% Production 5% Sound designer or outsourcing full development of of games development of games, 5% Sound design games and assets but no contracts yet

Number of women working Positions occupied FINANCE GAMES Games created in in Slovak gamedev by women cooperation with (16.4%) 177 34.8% Graphic artist Overall turnover (M EUR) Own Games created in Overall number Games published in 2021 via 17.4% Concept artist full-release cooperation with of released and 14.5% Producer games created a third party unreleased projects Self-publishing on PC and mobile distribution platforms 38% being worked on 9.4% Marketing, PR 24.1 36.1 45.7 51 72.2 80 83.2 81 182 381 Self-publishing on web-based platforms 20% 4.3% Animator 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 (est.) Published via international publisher 18% Percentage of 4.3% Game designer TOP 10 companies Estimated overall Primary target platform Primary target platform Self-publishing on console and VR platforms 16% companies employing 2.9% Administrative based on turnover turnover in 2022 for released games for game development Published via Slovak publisher 3% women EUR 83 271 050 Other 5% 46% 2.9% Data analyst 1. Pixel Federation 76% PC (Windows) 77% PC (Windows) 2.9% Programmer 2.9% Tester 2. PowerPlay Studio Overall turnover 41% iOS / Android 34% iOS / Android Developed games financed via 3.6% Other 3. SuperScale in 2021 29% Nintendo Switch 30% Nintendo Switch 4. Inlogic Software EUR 80 000 866 29% Xbox 17% Sony Playstation Self-funding 80% Number of employees from abroad 79 (7%) 5. Nine Rocks Games 27% Playstation 16% Microsoft Xbox Public funding 37% Turnover of top 10% International publisher 24%

Scale in 2021 29% Nintendo Switch 30% Nintendo Switch 4. Inlogic Software EUR 80 000 866 29% Xbox 17% Sony Playstation Self-funding 80% Number of employees from abroad 79 (7%) 5. Nine Rocks Games 27% Playstation 16% Microsoft Xbox Public funding 37% Turnover of top 10% International publisher 24% Countries of origin of foreign employees 6. Studio727 companies in 2021 26% MacOS / Linux 14% PC (Browser/HTML5) Slovak publisher 16% EUR 69 400 000 Commission 12% 7. Games Farm (86.75%) 23% PC (Browser/HTML5) 12% VR/AR (86.75%) Slovak investor 12% 8. Gentlemen's 13% VR/AR 10% MacOS / Linux International investor 10% 16% 12% 9% 7% 7% 49% 9. Blue Brain Games 3% Apple Arcade Platform holder 4% Czechia Ukraine USA Spain UK Other 10. Greens 3% Board game Bank loans 2%

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