IndustryMar 2026 10 · 7 min read
How to Hire a Game Development Studio: A Founder's Checklist
Here’s our take on how to hire a game development studio: a founder's checklist, based on what we’ve actually seen work across the projects we’ve shipped at Enixo.
Why this matters for India
How to Hire a Game Development Studio: A Founder's Checklist sits close to the center of how India's game industry is maturing right now. What used to be a handful of scrappy outsourcing shops has become a genuine ecosystem — dedicated engineering teams, LiveOps specialists, and studios competing for the same global clients as teams in Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia.
What's actually changing
The shift isn't just headcount. Studios covering how to hire a game development studio: a founder's checklist are increasingly running full-cycle production — concept through live ops — rather than just executing someone else's spec. That changes who gets hired, what skills matter, and how a project gets scoped and priced.
Our take
We've watched this shift from inside a Bengaluru studio for several years now. The teams that win aren't necessarily the cheapest — they're the ones that treat scoping, communication and quality bar the same way a client's in-house team would.
Written by
Manjunath MP
Enixo Studio · Engineering team
Builds gameplay and multiplayer systems at Enixo, mostly in Unity — from prototypes to production netcode.
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2 comments
JinxTheRogue 2 days ago
This is exactly the kind of breakdown I needed — saved for the next sprint planning.
PixelPilot 1 day ago
Curious how this holds up on lower-end mobile hardware?
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