HE'S simply twenty nine years recent, however already made Barnwell runs Ireland's biggest computer game development outfit, Digit Game Studios. The young company has developed the foremost formidable and high-priced game ever created here. Swords and sandals role-playing epic Kings of the Realm goes to be huge.

"You need to have expertise and investors World Health Organization have real balls to travel for this," Barnwell says, sitting within the room of Digit's offices in Dublin's element Docks. It's all exposed masonry and funky furnishings. reformist central.

"The games trade is greater than the film and music trade and it's growing at nine per cent a year. the large franchises usher in over $1bn during a matter of days. grand larceny car V was the large one last year. It came out on a Friday and had done $1bn before Sunday. We've raised over €4m."

Digit is funded by Delta, ACT and Enterprise eire. "It's a far riskier investment however the size of come back is big if we have a tendency to area unit successful ," he says

The development of Kings of the Realm is that the most costly project ever undertaken by associate Irish firm. Similar games will price between $20m and $25m, he adds. he is not reaching to need to look for any funding.

"We're hoping not. We've been terribly lucky. we have a tendency to created some good moves at the start and that we nonheritable some technology. The team here is extremely practiced. We've done this before. we have a tendency to created most of our mistakes in previous lives at alternative places," he laughs. "So that enables U.S. to form some shortcuts."

Although solely twenty nine, Barnwell has been around the block. he is associate trade veteran at this stage, having worked as chief government at GameStop's Jolt on-line vice and British freelance game developer Jagex. His 25-strong team has place in time in a number of the world's biggest games, serving to to make and develop RuneScape, grave Raider, Colin McRae piece of ground Heroes, Championship Manager Rivals and mobile games jewelled and Chuzzle.

"Building the corporate has been the most important price. Finding the folks. Our team is extremely international and what we have a tendency to do is extremely specialised. The ability pool isn't here and therefore the guys World Health Organization have those skills have in all probability already been employed. we have a tendency to had to travel international, thus we've got Brits, Germans, Polish, Americans ... all over," he says.

Digit Game Studios is blazing the approach with the creation of "seamlessly cross-platform" games. this implies that you simply will play video games on your iPad, laptop, good phone or alternative device and you will not notice the distinction. It conjointly implies that you'll play against somebody with associate mechanical man phone, albeit you have associate iPhone. This for gamers is big. very large. Some games have tried however this is often the primary all-platform MMO (Massively Multiplayer on-line game).