Vikash Jaiswal

Vikash Jaiswal is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Gametion Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and creator of Ludo King, a mobile game developed by Gametion for Android and iOS.

At the ET Brand Equity Gaming Summit in 2021, Jaiswal asked the Indian government to support the game development industry within the country. According to Jaiswal, there should be "specialised courses focusing on game development under related streams like computer science or engineering." He also made handmade greeting cards that were sold through a local stationery shop.

Jaiswal pursued his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from MIT, Bulandshahar. As part of his thesis, he created a video game called ‘Eggy Boy’, a seven level jump game like ‘Mario’, which was named PCQuest magazine's ‘Game of the Month’ for July 2003. Most of these original games were published on "oneonlinegames.com."

In 2019, Gametion participated in the International Game Developers Conference (IGDC), a game development conference held in South Asia.

Ludo King

In October 2015, Jaiswal came up with the idea for Ludo King, after coming across a Snakes and Ladders game app. Jaiswal developed the game with one programmer and one graphic designer. Ludo King was also listed in the Top 3 downloaded games in India in 2018, according to the Google's annual Year in Search: Insights for Brands report. The app was named "No. 1 Game of India" by MidDay, while the Apple app store listed Ludo King in the list of 21 apps for 2021. Ludo King is the first Indian gaming app to cross 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store.

By 2025, the game had surpassed 1.5 billion downloads worldwide.

Awards Jaiswal received the Mobile & Tablet Game: Arcade/ Casual (International) in Gaming for Ludo King at the 19th FICCI FRAMES Best Animated Frames (BAF) Awards.

He has been recognized as "Icons of Navi Mumbai" by the Economic Times group.

Gametion Technologies earned the ET Startup Award 2020, with recognition as a Bootstrap Champ of 2020.

Gametion Technologies ranked Number 1 in the category of "Top 10 India Headquartered Games Publishers" in the Top Published Awards 2021 by App Annie.

Android Developers featured a story on Jaiswal for their YouTube channel.

Jaiswal won the "Marketer of the Year - Gaming" award at the IAA Leadership Awards 2022 for his marketing achievements.

Investments Jaiswal intends to invest in promising startups in the Gaming Industry.