- Non-Profit association representing the UK's games industry
- There members include independent game developers, in house publisher-owned developers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses and universities.
- Tiga's vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games business, they do this by government lobbying and maintain a voice in the corridors of power at both Westminster and Scottish parliments
- Tiga is the network for games developers and digital publishers and the trade association representing the video game industry. There core purpose is to strengthen the game developing and digital publishing sector. They achieve this by campaigning for the industry in the corridors of power, championing the industry in the media and helping their members commercially.
- TIGA is intent on building an enduring organisation which continually improves; a business that will make a significant impact on the games industry and so benefit our membership and the wider economy. Since 2010, TIGA has won 24 business awards, an achievement which reflects TIGA’s drive for improvement and to meet best practice.
IGDA(International games developers association)
IGDA is the professional association for over 12,000 video and computer game developers worldwide. It is incorporated in the United States as a non-profit organization. Its stated mission is "To advance the careers and enhance the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community
- Independent company
- Non-profit organization for game software developers
- Is the largest non-profit membership organization in the world serving all individuals who create games.
- Their core values are, Community, Professionalism, Innovation, Impact, Leadership and Fun.
Good research. Do either of the companies use joint venture? If yes, how?
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• Explain within this section what these the keywords mean (the work below will help with these words):
Conglomerate
Independent
Cross media ownership
Commercial
Public service broadcaster
Joint venture
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Synergy
Production process.
• A piece of work on Independent vs conglomerate
• Looking at News International vs Mirror Group
• Using a media sector of your choice, you need to investigate and evaluate the similarities and differences between a conglomerate and independent company from that sector.
• Televisual (http://www.televisual.com/blog-detail/The-UKs-top-100-TV-production-companies_bid-380.html) has a breakdown of the top 100 independent TV production companies in the UK that may be useful as a starting point for this task.
For each company find:
1. Evidence that it is an independent company OR evidence that it is a conglomerate company (i.e. what are its subsidiaries? cross media ownership examples?).
2. Example of synergy.
3. Examples of joint ventures.
What are the similarities and differences between their chosen companies?
• Focus on Disney production process, vertical and horizontal integration, synergy, cross promotion
• Job roles
The Prospects website (http://www.prospects.ac.uk/) could be a useful starting point for learners to further investigate the requirements and responsibilities of the job roles to add to the above starter/ group task and present their findings to the group.
• Production processes magazines, newspapers, radio, film, TV and website