#LithuaniaLovesGameDev
For highly skilled talent, creative and inspired people and a sense
of community with a positive vibe - there’s no better place to be
right now than Lithuania.
You want to work with inspired
people, with “the bestest and
the fastest”, with people who have
bright eyes. In this, Vilnius right
now ranks at the top!
Sergei Klimov,
Founder & Managing Director at Charlie Oscar
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Programming
(R&D)
AVAILABLE TALENT
11,200
2
Creative
development
RAPIDLY GROWING TALENT POOL
3
Quality
assurance
GROWTH OF IT STUDENTS
2013
6,300
developers in Vilnius alone
2011
+20%
developers in Lithuania
7,600
The number of design
students able to work with
IT design rose by 20%
between 2011 and 2013
Source: Ministry of Science and Education, 2014
~750 software systems and
programming graduates enter the market
every year
Source: Statistics Lithuania, 2014 / Ministry of Science
and Education, 2015
RELATED INCENTIVES
300%
R&D costs gain triple value at the end of
the year, lowering your income tax
Source: Ministry of Finance
CLOSELY KNIT COMMUNITY
6,200
2011
2014
Source: Ministry of Science and Education, 2015
GAMES CREATED IN LITHUANIA
DrawMania
COST COMPETITIVENESS
WINNER - Best Social Mobile
Game award - International Mobile
Gaming Awards (IMGA) 2012!
€750
101-in-1 Games
Over 10M Downloads
on Google Play
Rated 4.5 with 764k ratings
on Google Play
Battle Towers
Over 4M Downloads
on Google Play
Rated 4.2 with 166k ratings
on Google Play
average gross salary
of IT graduate
Source: Grafton Recruitment, Alliance for Recruitment, 2014
RELATED INCENTIVES
23%
23% cashback for
a first-time employee
for 12 months
Source: Lithuanian Labour Exchange
#Lithuania4GameDev
QUALITY OF LIFE & CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT
• Vilnius is ranked by the New York Times
alongside Copenhagen, Barcelona and
Capetown as a hip and well managed place to
live.
• 2014 Mercer Cost of Living Index ranked the city
as one of the 5 least expensive in Europe.
• Vilnius is 1 of the 5 least expensive EU capitals
to live in for expatriates
In Vilnius I can breathe easier in every
sense: it is a green, clean city with lots
of happy and like-minded people.
Here I even run into my colleagues
accidentally – many of them work
close by. All the stories that I heard
about the IT hub in Vilnius are true!
Alexey Davydov,
Founder & Managing Director of Flazm Games
TALENT
• 6 game development courses at Lithuanian
universities and colleges.
• Full gamedev study programs coming up.
#Lithuania4GameDev on Twitter
• Cooperation with Lithuanian universities:
developer workshops with Unity and
Nordcurrent.
Follow us:
Invest_LT
Oleg Pridiuk @iWozik
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT & GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT
• Government funded financial support for foreign
investors.
w00t! @Invest_LT is seeking computer science classes from
the 1st school grade in Lithuania. @unity3d gonna be part of
this from 2016
• Blue Card issuing time - only 2 weeks.
• 4th lowest profit tax in the EU.
• One of the lowest office rental costs in the CEE.
Oleg Pridiuk @iWozik
“20 gamedev jobs may be of higher priority than 200 news
jobs on a factory now” - our govt is clearly in love with game
development trend
#
LITHUANIA
LOVES
GAMEDEV
Sergei Klimov @sergeiklimov
Good news for #Lithuania4GameDev: last week, LT Seimas
passed the law that gives qualified professionals Blue Cards
in just 2 weeks.
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