What is Indie Game Foundry?
The Indie Game Foundry is an Early-Stage Indie Studio Incubator that partners with you to start your very own studio and publish your first game.
We are focused on supporting new talent in the game industry to launch games as a publication partner and expert guide.
We believe in a better tomorrow for all game developers, and a chance for new talent to emerge.
We want to be your partner in the #indierevolution.
How Does Foundry Work?
EXPERT GUIDANCE
Legal Start-Up Package
Account management support
Target Market RESEARCh
Product Development
Fundraising and Merchandising
Multi-Platform Publication
QA & Tech support
marketing & Community building
production management
Team building support
The Indie Game Foundry provides an educational foundation to help new or existing game developers start their own studios, step them through the process of formal business formation, and help guide them through the game development process and releasing a fully developed game over a 12 month timeline.
Our goal is to provide new developers who want to carve their own path in the gaming industry the guidance they need to navigate the big questions surrounding founding their own studios and launching their own games with expert advisement and resources.
The starting price for each team selected is $6995, with flexible payment options available. Each team will keep 100% of their games’ revenue until they earn back the initial $6995, and after that, we split 70% for the team and 30% for Foundry, all of this post-distribution fees*.
This is our introductory price to the program, exclusive for this first cohort of Foundry.
For each Cohort, we’ll select only 5 teams from all applications, based mainly but not exclusively on the following criteria:
- Team Cohesion & Leadership
- Application Quality
- Game Concept Pitch with Pitch Deck
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*= All the information about fees, cost, contract and more are available in the documentation below.
Program schedule
Meet some of your professors
Watch the live reveal
Who Are We?
Why Do We Do This?
The Indie Game Foundry is built and run by the same team as the Indie Game Academy, the leading gamified online game development school.
We want you to succeed. We want to help juniors find a footing in an industry where entry-level work is nearly impossible to find. We want to help found studios that treat their developers right and end the cycle of hiring and firing that dominates the AAA scene.
We are tired of a cutthroat industry, and the gatekeeping habits that make it so challenging for new and junior developers to break into the industry, and we are here to change that. It’s time to do it a new way.
Apply Today!
Become an Indie Studio Founder with Indie Game Foundry!
Applications for Cohort 0 start on September 6th and end December 7th
Have more questions? Shoot us an email to foundry@indiegameacademy.com
