Funding game

Sometimes, one of them will sell a design to a major distributor and become a millionaire. Funders should not be discouraged by this possibility in the case of an individual designer or a design team.

It is helpful to think of the game industry in terms of the recording industry, wherein there are large major labels, small indie labels, and individual artists with homemade websites or MySpace profiles.

If you fund a project that gets picked up by a major label, you have funded something that will reach a large audience, while improving the economic prospects of the composer or musician. Jason Rohrer is the poet laureate of independent game designers, a role he plays beautifully, although he did not ask for it.

His quiet, minimalist games are about the big and small ways we look at the big and small things in our lives. His breakout game, Passage , is a sweet, reflective simulation of in- and interdependence, of love and dying.

It takes five minutes to play, always, and the playing field is only twelve pixels high. For seven years, Rohrer has supported his family, the primary source of his game content, as an independent game designer. For one thing, his work is digital, and other than his computer and monthly Internet charges, he has no measurable expense except his time.

Time, in most instances, is not a popular budget line item on arts grant applications. Additionally, games are intimate, interactive media and most are not designed for a static, public display. Nor can it be expected that a group will watch and enjoy a projected image of one or two individuals playing a game.

Evaluators of this category will acknowledge the parameters of game play and the history of the form. In , John S. Bright Gambit added that it will also not take any publishing claims to the games it's funding.

Bright Gambit is supported by various game industry professionals who came together to support the vision. But as a paradox, it is often harder for games with a niche sensibility and budget to receive funding and access to information especially in regions where games are not a common investment. Productions have their highs and lows. While we are hands off and our teams have full creative freedom, we ensure over the course of the development to get them the necessary help to iterate on their original visions.

Getting the right advising oftens means talking to the right people. It can be hard for indie teams to get proper attention from first parties, platforms and other key players, for that matter we step in at your demand to make sure you get the right nudge towards the direction you want for your game.

We witnessed over more than a decade what gamers wanted and delivered it to them. Now we intend to do the same by financing projects players look forward to get their hands on. Pushing his gaming ventures from garage business to an IPO's opening bell, he remains humble in anything he undertakes. His approach of "Players first" bases his decision making entirely on many successful years navigating the gaming industry and giving gamers what they want. Kicked off in the industry witnessing the evolution of games distribution working for french start-up Nexway managing retail accounts like Amazon Europe, Deutsche Telekom and publishers like Electronic Arts, Bethesda, Warner Bros, ArenaNet [ Quadrilingual and considering Goat simulator as the best game ever created, Bertrand's ultimate goal is to make Game Seer a highly performing entity in funding studios producing iterations that metacritics will unanimously praise.

Thomas started in the early 's by organising events in the rising esport scene across France, including the ZrT Trackmania Cup, which sold nearly 15k tickets in the mythic Bercy Arena in Paris. He then chose to pursue his studies in the field of video game Production and Marketing, which led to great opportunities at Ubisoft, Focus Home Interactive and Xbox, where he was part of the Release team.

Now as a portfolio acquisitions manager for Game Seer, he's looking for awesome games to be shipped! Emmanuel works for or around the video game industry since , from exec-producer to CTO he enjoys pushing projects from scratch to great results be it in hardware, software or content. He worked for companies like AMD, Intrinsic Graphics or Ageia PhysX by Nvidia where he evangelized technical solutions for the industry, working on several games projects all over the world.

He also worked as Managing director for several studios and entities. Now consulting for the industry and also the co-founder of Limitless games, a Barcelona studio working on the project Ascendants rising, advising Game Seer on the technical risks and production constraints on multiple projects is exactly the type of challenge he is up to. Since he has been advising gaming companies and indie developers in the areas of business development, communication, storytelling and game design.

Gambitious is an Amsterdam-based crowdfunding site that supports the reward-donation model, similar to Kickstarter, and the equity crowdfunding model similar to Crowdcube.

It is an all-or-nothing crowdfunding site where game designers can raise up to 2. Equity investors can commit as little as 20 euros per share. Gamesplanet Lab was put together by the digital distributor Gamesplanet and the european crowdfunding site Ulule. Unlike other crowdfunding sites, Gamesplanet Lab has a rigorous application review process that weeds out low-quality proposals.