The computer game industry (also the interactive entertainment industry) is a sector of the economy associated with the development, promotion and sale of computer games. It includes a large number of specialties, which employ tens of thousands of people around the world.
The features of the computer game industry are very similar to other branches of the entertainment industry (such as the music industry), but the game industry is often condemned for small rewards of developers. This contributes to the existence of independent developments, which begin after the developers leave their old companies and establish their own new companies and projects. In the most significant cases, such companies are gradually developing into huge faceless corporations that adopt the rules of doing business of their predecessors, thus supporting the mentioned cycle.
In contrast to the modern music industry, for which the development of technology has reduced the cost of creating content to almost zero, so that any independent musician can create a product of almost professional quality, to create a modern computer game requires an increasing number of both involved in the creation of workers, and more and more powerful equipment. This makes game publishers who Fund the creation of games significantly more influential than publishers in the music industry.