It can be a simple card game like teen patti. Or, it can be an incredibly sophisticated one like Grand Theft Auto, where the player is essentially a criminal rising up the ranks of the underworld, leaving behind a trail of thefts and assassinations that would make even the Italian mafia seem like amateurs in comparison. The point is video games come in all sorts of formats, such as sports or action-adventure. And a talk this week focuses on how newbies can successfully press the play button on a career in India's growing gaming industry.

Shagun Shah is the person who will be conducting it. Having started out in Mumbai, he now works with a gaming company in Bengaluru and tells us that almost anyone and everyone can find his niche within this profession. "You can come from any kind of background to get into the video games industry, because you are expected to be like a Renaissance man — you should know as much as you can about a bunch of things. So, anything you do thus holds some value," he says, adding that someone with a passion for writing could find a job working on a narrative fiction game for instance, while a person who's studied computer science and understands coding could become a developer instead.