Future/Past Community

BUILT IN THE OPEN for India's game artists.

India's games industry runs on word of mouth. Nobody knows what a job should pay, which studios are hiring, or who is available for work. We are building the open resources the industry never had - free, public, and owned by the community.

Studio & Salary Map

Resume & Job Board

Artists For Hire

Community Challenges

Open Projects

01 - Data

STUDIO & SALARYmap of India

An interactive map of every game studio in the country, plotted by city, with anonymised salary data contributed by the people who actually work there. Know what a mid-level environment artist earns in Pune before you negotiate, not after.

By City

Where the studios are

Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Mumbai, NCR and the smaller hubs - who is there, how big they are, and what they work on.

By Role

What roles actually pay

Ranges by discipline and seniority - art, design, engineering, production - so juniors stop guessing and seniors stop undercharging.

Anonymous

Contributed by you

Submissions are anonymised before they are published. No names, no employers attached to individual figures.

In development - contribution form opening soon

02 - Work

RESUME &job board

One place for Indian studio openings, and one place to put your resume where hiring leads will actually look. Free to post, free to apply, no recruiter in the middle taking a cut.

For Studios

Post an opening

Roles at Indian studios and remote roles open to Indian artists. Listings carry the salary band - that is the one condition of posting here.

For Artists

Put your resume up

A searchable resume pool with your reel, discipline and availability. Studios come to you rather than the other way round.

In development - listings opening soon

03 - Directory

ARTISTSavailable for hire

A public directory of Indian freelancers and contractors, with portfolios, specialisms, rates and current availability. If you are between contracts, this is where studios find you.

Filterable

By discipline

Environment, character, props, foliage, tech art, VFX, animation, UI - filter to exactly the skillset the project needs.

Honest

Rates up front

Day rates and project rates listed openly, so neither side wastes a call finding out they were never in the same range.

Current

Live availability

Mark yourself available, booked, or open to a start date. A stale directory is worse than no directory.

In development - sign-up form opening soon

04 - Practice

COMMUNITYchallenges

Themed art challenges with a brief, a deadline and real feedback at the end. Built to give artists something portfolio-worthy to make and a reason to finish it - the hardest part of any personal project.

Monthly

A brief worth doing

Written like a real production brief - constraints, budget, references - so what you make reads as professional work, not a study.

Reviewed

Feedback that lands

Entries critiqued by working artists at the end of each round. Public, specific, and aimed at the next piece rather than the score.

Shown

Work gets seen

Standout entries featured across our channels, with the artist credited and linked. Visibility is most of the prize.

In development - first brief coming soon

05 - Together

OPENcommunity projects

Things the Indian games community needs that no single studio will fund. Shared asset libraries, preservation work, research and tooling - proposed openly, built by whoever turns up, free for everyone afterwards.

Proposed

Indian flora asset library

Game-ready scans of Indian trees, plants and grasses. Neem, banyan, gulmohar, bamboo - the species missing from every commercial library, released free.

Proposed

Heritage preservation

Photogrammetry of Indian heritage sites, captured before they degrade further, published as an open reference archive for artists and researchers.

Proposed

Industry salary report

An annual, properly analysed report on pay, hiring and conditions across Indian studios - built from the salary map data.

Open

Propose your own

Anything the community needs and nobody owns. Bring the idea, we will help find the people to build it.

Take Part

JOIN THElist

None of this is live yet. Tell us which parts you want and we will let you know the moment they open - and if you want to help build any of it, say so.