ABSTRACT
As the global capitalist economy intensifies and markets keep deepen their strategic expansion, world geographies are pushed for a seamless integration of national economies to a global network of uneven financial, production, and cultural interactions. This chapter deals with the Latin-American videogame industry as one of these embodiments. It provides a general overview of the shaping (independent) game production over the course of its slow emergence, focusing on the diverse and uneven relations between global and local industry stakeholders, public institutions, and emergent forms of national and cross-border organizations. By doing this, the chapter provides a theoretical and empirical bridge between scholarly research based on main centers of videogame production and the growing Latin-American understandings of its own experience.
