Turkey has a proven track record of successful game
companies, which have flourished in this fertile land and have
grown into renown and respected names globally. We trust in the
capacity of the young generation in this country, which has been
home to various civilizations in the history, thus forming into
the colorful and multi-cultural society today.
To
support the young talents to dream and realize their gaming
ambitions, Games United started game incubation centers with two
prestigious universities in Turkey with the primary focus on
mobile games. While pursuing our aggressive growth targets in
game and content development, we are committed to contribute to
the gaming ecosystem, the local community as well as the
economic welfare of the markets that we are active in. We see
our pro bono support of the incubation centers as “contribution
to the society”.
Through the game incubation center
programs, we aim to attract, develop, and grow the teams with
great potential into game studious that can produce high-quality
content and games and join the gaming ecosystem as quick as
possible. The programs support the team in many game-specific
areas including ideation, game design, mechanics, development,
and publishing. Moreover, the teams are supported further on
non-gaming areas such as team building, legal, finance and
fundraising.
We have partnered with the prestigious Anadolu
University of Turkey in our first program. Anadolu University
started the first animation department in Turkey within its
prestigious Faculty of Fine Arts and graduates thereof are
recognized worldwide for their talent. We are very excited to
see this existing expertise transforming into new game studios
already. You may consult to the below link on Anadolu
University for more information.
https://international.anadolu.edu.tr/en
We have partnered with Izmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü
(İYTE) of Turkey in our second program. IYTE is among the
top-rated state universities in Turkey with very strong
engineering departments supported by a truly international
academic staff. We are thrilled to team up with IYTE’s
Technopark to develop a game ecosystem in the region. Many
participating studios have already proven their capability
since the start, most of which are formed by the current
students at the campus. You may consult to the below link on
Teknopark Izmir for more information.
https://teknoparkizmir.com.tr/en/
Following the successful launch of our Game Incubation
Program with Anadolu University, we were granted a sizeable fund
by the Ministry of Industry and Technology to set up a “Game and
Animation Development Center”. The physical infrastructure
located in the green campus of Anadolu University will develop
into a center of applied education. Those qualified participants
will develop stronger skills in game and animation related areas
including also newer topics such as AR/VR, motion capture and
more broadly metaverse.
We trust that it is our
responsibility to support the community and ecosystem
development. In that regard, we are committed to run similar
programs jointly with our partners for the benefit of the
society. We are excited and proud of the support given by the
Ministry and our partner Anadolu University.