The DeanBeat: Indonesia’s growing game economy leans toward blockchain
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Indonesia is pretty serious about building its game ecosystem, and it hopes that blockchain games — potentially as disruptive as mobile free-to-play games were a decade ago — could be the way to build a sustainable game industry.
The Southeast Asian nation of 17,000 islands might seem like one of the underdogs of gaming. The country’s industry isn’t nearly as advanced as a lot of would-be superpowers of gaming, such as the U.S., Japan, China, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada.
And Indonesia is also behind strong up-and-comers like Finland, Sweden, Turkey, Spain, Ukraine, and many more countries that have proven the world is flat when it comes to making hit games. A long list of rivals are gunning to build their game ecosystems.
But you have to start somewhere, and Indonesia’s local gaming ecosystem has been brewing for more than a decade on pure passion. If I’ve learned one thing while traveling the world, it’s that the world is flat when it comes to game development talent. Some regions get into a groove and produce hit after hit, but eventually everybody has an equal shot at mastering the art of game development and producing a hit game. In Indonesia, I saw entrepreneurs and companies finding stepping stones and a path to climb up the food chain of the game industry.
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The opportunity is big, even in just the home market. Roughly 50 million Indonesian gamers spent $1.9 billion on games last
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