IndustryMay 2026 20 · 7 min read
Outsourcing Game Development to Ahmedabad: What to Expect
Here’s an in-depth look at outsourcing game development to ahmedabad: what to expect, based on what we’ve actually seen hiring, outsourcing to, and working with teams across India’s game dev cities.
What to expect on cost and timeline
Outsourcing to a Ahmedabad-based team typically comes in below hiring an equivalent in-house team in a Tier-1 Western market, but the real savings show up in how tightly the engagement is scoped — vague briefs cost more everywhere, not just in Ahmedabad.
Where communication actually breaks
The time zone gap is rarely the real problem — it's usually a missing single point of contact on the vendor side. Insist on one lead who owns the whole engagement and reports status weekly, not a rotating cast of engineers.
How we structure it
On our own outsourced engagements we default to two-week sprints with a demo at the end of each one, regardless of which Indian city the work is based in — it's the only cadence that's caught scope drift early enough to matter.
Written by
Ankit Thapliyal
Enixo Studio · Engineering team
Owns backend architecture at Enixo — wallets, matchmaking, and the infrastructure that keeps live games running.
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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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