Game Developer Incubation and Accelerator Programs
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LAST UPDATE : JUNE 2023
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1) Burnout Game Ventures
At Burnout Game Ventures, we assist creators of virtual worlds to succeed in the real world. We’re a game publisher with a twist: more of a venture builder, we accelerate game studios into sustainable high-growth businesses, sharing in the revenues generated by their products, which we publish.
We pick the most promising projects – based on originality, and how well-prepared you are. We then build your Team, train you all on how to do it right the first/next time, mentor you through your development cycle, and then market the hell outta your game-related product.
2) Carbon
Carbon is a games incubator/accelerator with the mission to support independent game developers in crafting and distributing their games.
Carbon’s focus is on under-served yet high-potential regions, such as Eastern Europe or Latin America.
We’re built on a revenue sharing model. So, we will not ask for equity in your company.
You will maintain full independence and creative vision and you’ll get a helpful guide on your way to success.
3) DAE Studios
DAE Studios is a Belgium-based videogame incubator and accelerator that offers game studios the opportunity to grow through coaching, community events, business opportunities as well as exposure and go-to-market support.
We are 100% privately funded which means we are invested to make your studio succeed.
4) Execution Labs
We founded Execution Labs in 2012 with the goal of providing hands-on support to talented game developers in order to help them become better entrepreneurs and business leaders. Not long after, we brought on board a full-time staff of experts to supplement the wisdom of our mentors, who often flew from all corners of the world to offer their own guidance and direction to our studios. Over the years we evolved from a hybrid incubator/ accelerator based in one physical space to a global investor, offering our support remotely to studios across North America and Europe.
5) GAME BCN
GameBCN focuses on four main pillars: talent growth, business development, production training, and networking events. Our result is a publisher agreement ratio over 50%. GameBCN incubation is a public and private funded program, it’s 100% free.
The program is divided into two modules: production and business, each lasting three months. At the beginning of the program, production milestones are agreed on with each team. Only teams who achieve their production goals will access the business incubation module and full grant funding.
6) Game Founders
GameFounders is a global startup accelerator program that focuses solely on game studios and start-ups.
We accelerate teams or companies with two or more person with launched games/demos/slices from any country in the world.
The program is 3 months long and provides mentoring for your team to improve their business and game quality skills by over 60 top industry mentors, weekly pitch practice, playtesting, field trips to successful game studios and at the end of the program, demo days where you will get the chance to pitch to our global network of investors and publishers.
7) Global Top Round
GTR is an interactive accelerator program dedicated to supporting small studios from all over the world with the development, publishing and fundraising expertise they need to take their content global and towards a more sustainable business.
Through the GTR acceleration program, new studios with great content will receive both funding and the help they need to improve their games and identify & negotiate with potential publishers from all over the world.
GTR selects up to 10 games annually for the program, which provides funding, game development, culturalization support, global publisher exposure, fundraising assistance and an extensive global network of professionals to give them the feedback they need to take their studios and projects to the next level.
8) Indie Games Accelerator from Google Play
The Indie Games Accelerator from Google Play is a 10-week accelerator program for high potential indie game studios, designed to help you build and grow a successful games company.
It brings you the best of Google’s programs, products, people and technology.
It also gives you direct access to Googlers, top industry experts, and a global community of passionate game developers who are looking to take their business to the next level.
9) Indie Topia
Indietopia is a non-profit foundation and an award winning studio. We are an innovator, accelerator and publisher of games. Our mission is making sure that everyone passionate about game development has a chance at becoming a self-supporting developer.
In our 6-month accelerator program you work on the balance between audio, video and interaction for your game. Planning marketing far ahead of publishing is also an important topic. Who is your target audience, what is the competition doing and how big is the market you are entering? Do you focus on standard player types from the Bartle model (socializers, killers, achievers and explorers) or do you tap into a completely new target group? Each game genre has monetization methods to suit that type of game and its players.
10) Madrid in Game
The Madrid in Game Video Game Campus is a physical and virtual space that offers different initiatives, including a study incubator and accelerator for developers.
All of the Video Game Campus activity is focused on the promotion and development of new ideas in the field of gaming and video games.
11) RNG Foundry
RNG Foundry is a gaming accelerator which was set up to help start-up studios and aspiring studio founders.
Our core focus is to facilitate our studios to create the innovative, engaging and high-quality gaming content, as well as offering market-leading distribution, via the Games Global Platform.
In addition to capital, we offer our studios regulatory sheltering, an exceptional array of technical resources and intellectual property to lower barriers to success.
If you are looking to take your studio to the next level or thinking about starting your own studio, we encourage you to reach out.
12) SpielFabrique
Founded in 2016, SpielFabrique has developed an international and cross-border expertise of the video game industry. From mentoring indie game studios looking to bring their first game to market or established indie studios looking to scale up, to its consulting business towards public entities. SpielFabrique has built a comprehensive understanding of the video game ecosystem.
Our pan-European program comprises 6 months of workshops, networking, and 1-on-1 mentoring (March-August). We will help you make the leap from having a functioning prototype to becoming a financially independent and successful studio.
Since 2016, the program connects young studios to high-caliber experts, mentors, publishers, and investors. We path your way to financial independence, strong control over your IP, and a powerful support network across Europe and beyond.
13) The Iterative Collective
The Iterative Collective is an indie games incubator and publisher that provides developer support throughout every step of the game-creation process.
Created by knowledgeable developers and supported by an experienced team of industry veterans and mentors, our cooperatively developed incubation framework ensures that the studios we support through our services produce games of a world-class standard.
We’re always looking for passionate gamers to help us find gems and get them in front of new players.
We typically fund games up to USD300,000 and projects that last up to a maximum of 18 months.