In Russia, they plan to create the first business accelerator to support startups in the field of game development. His main task is to bring the project to an attractive status for investment and increase its chances of a successful launch in game stores, Vedomosti writes with reference to the executive director of the Association of Professionals in the Game and Operational Development Industry ( APRIORI) and VK Play Product Director Alexander Mikheev.
Developers will be able to attract funds from investors as part of the accelerator. The amounts and conditions are being resolved. The participation of VK as an investor is also being discussed.
IIDF head Kirill Varlamov said that the launch of the accelerator program is scheduled for 2023. According to him, while the fund does not plan to invest in graduates.
He added that the accelerator will help teams find a business model, work with conversions and LTV extension, a metric that shows how much, on average, a customer generates profit for the business over the entire period of using the product.
The founder of the Vengeance Games studio, Konstantin Sakhnov, believes that the most effective way to support gaming teams would be to finance the development of prototypes and MVPs of a gaming product. A reasonable amount of investment in the project at this stage, in his opinion, ranges from 1 million to 10 million rubles, depending on the type of game.
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Source: RB
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