Yesterday, August 14, at the “VEBA City Laboratory” location, a meeting of the game participants were held. The management partner of the common Fund Indie Go and Xtech (Rostelecom), also known as the founder of the Indie GO community, Vladimir Varenik said that the idea of the fund originated from this community Rostelecom PJSC, and the company became the first to support our ideas.
Vladimir Varenik continues: According to our data, in Russia, you can create a fund that will support not only independent games (games created by a person or a small group of developers without the support of large companies – approximately.
On October 4, 2024, Rostelecom and Indie Go announced the launch of the new Indie Go Start investment fund, created to support promising Russian developers and release high quality video games for all markets. Vladimir Varenik, in an interview with a Comnews reporter, said that Indie began to plan to attract sponsorship from a number of large corporations, and were also negotiating with entrepreneurs from the Forbes list. Answering the question of what percentage of Indie Go started from investments in the development of sponsored games, he explained: We can have different models – we can go to the capital of the gaming company, starting from 20%, this is interested, or, as in the case of development.
He also noted that the US market was particularly interested in the fund: “In Steam, the market share of American players in our releases reaches 70%, and this is the most solvent object.
The head of the development of the Vasily Ovchinnikov video game industry calls the purpose of Indie Go began to attract real investments: colleagues from Indie GO have experienced investments that are not game development and including Rostelecom projects. By Warthunder, Standoff 2, Carx, Escape Tarkov, Heatmic Heart and others.
The director of the digital creative industry of Skolkovo Alexei Kalenchuk has talked about the penetration of domestic games in the world market. He noted that domestic companies have earned a significant part of foreign income that mainly loses Russian situation: This has led to the fact that their presence in the market has become minimal. Now Russian games, at least official, are shown very limited. penetration.