Leveling Up Gaming

Name: Danish Sinha

Designation: Founder and CEO

Company: Gamstacy

Age: 28

According to Mordor Intelligence, the Gaming market was valued at $198.4 billion in 2021 and it is projected to reach $339.95 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 8.94% between 2022 and 2027. While this market is driven by males primarily, who form a considerable portion of gamers, the share of women and LGBTQ+ communities continue to be on an uptick.

But despite the growing number of women and LGBTQ+ gamers, gaming platforms of today are hardly inclusive, safe or respectful. This is where Gamestacy's Founder and CEO Danish Sinha wants to make a difference.

"While the gaming industry is growing, there are a lot of challenges in the moderation of content in gaming, whether it's text-based content or chat. We have millions of people playing games every day, but generally people can get extremely abusive in these games. This makes gaming difficult for women and LGBTQ+ gamers as they are targeted with different kinds of identity comments," says Sinha.

For a better gaming world

Sinha founded Gamestacy in 2016 to fight for a better gaming world. The company's end-to-end development capabilities enable developers from all communities to develop full-scale multiplayer games tightly integrated with the Unity 3D engine. Gamestacy is backed by investors, accelerators and advisors, including Google Indie Games Accelerator, Roki Soeharyo, Angelo Lobo, Sanjay Kumar and Eric Fung.

Under Sinha's leadership, Gamestacy develops lifestyle games with social features, allowing gamers to chat in a highly-gamified environment. To make gaming inclusive, the company ensures that women and LGBTQ+ gamers find it easy to report any person who is being abusive. "We are trying to improve the community on an inclusivity level because this is becoming a big challenge and a requirement for the industry to start making interactions more meaningful and more polite," adds Sinha.

Strong feedback loop

With Sinha's vision, Gamestacy is truly leading the way for the gaming industry. In fact, its lead designer is a woman and the way Gamestacy designs its games depends on a strong feedback loop with its gamers. Through Discord communities, Gamestacy is constantly in touch with its gamers and takes on feedback from them to improve the overall gaming experience for people across genders.  

Besides Gamestacy, Sinha is the co-founder of PakkaProfile, which is introducing a fresh take on recruitment through its game-based assessment to evaluate candidates objectively based on their personality competencies, cognitive abilities and language skills.