The Scottish computer games industry had an emotional surge in development a year ago and is currently the third biggest group in the UK, business figures have proposed.
Exchange affiliation Tiga said the business' "improvement headcount" developed by 25% in Scotland between December 2014 and March 2016.
This was more than double the national normal and the second quickest development in the UK after Wales.
Scotland's 85 amusements organizations now utilize 1,290 inventive staff.
What's more, the amusement improvement part underpins an extra 2,408 aberrant occupations, as per Tiga's exploration.
It additionally found that Scotland is home to 9.4% of the UK's aggregate recreations organizations and 9.8% of its designer headcount.
Console markets
Scottish recreations improvement organizations, who work over the versatile, on the web, instructive and console markets, are evaluated to put about £62m in pay rates and overheads consistently and contribute £56m in immediate and backhanded duty incomes to the Treasury.
They likewise make an immediate and roundabout commitment of almost £138m to the UK's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Tiga CEO Dr Richard Wilson said the Scottish computer games industry now trailed just London and the south east of England as far as size.
In any case, he said that more diversions organizations need to profit by Games Tax Relief and Research and Development Tax Credits if the business was to keep on growing.
Tiga has likewise proposed a Games Investment Fund, which would make gives or credits accessible to amusements organizations on a coordinated financing premise.
The Games Investment Fund would likewise give a business tutoring business counseling administration, staffed by industry veterans, for diversions organizations that get to its awards or advances.