We are a group of qualified experts from the heart of the game industry!
OUR STORY
Game Factory is an online game development incubator/accelerator for top indie game start-ups who are looking to supercharge their game business.
We support all types of game developers, bringing them from 0 to 1 within our acceleration and incubation programs.
2019Game Factory is born
We converted this community into an ecosystem where we implemented our "give help to get help" mentality.2020First partnership
Our first official partner was Voodoo. We kickstarted our incubation platform and reached 400+ users in 5 months.2020A model never seen before
We never had any entry requirements, ever. We also accepted individuals, and then started converting them into game studios by bringing them together.2020Answered the demand
We started providing free courses under Game Factory Academy; launched game jams and events, as well as creating partner perks2020First public event
We organized a huge offline game jam with 516 participants, partnering with Bilisim Vadisi2020First corporate partnership
We organized the Gameventure Accelerator program partnering with Turkcell and trained over 5000+ participants.2020Partnership with Rollic
Rollic (Zynga) became the main platform partner of Game Factory for our hyper casual producing teams.2020Partnership with Google
We organized Game Booster Accelerator with Google where we train 10+ experienced studios for 6 months, following up with a demoday and investments.2020Acqu-hiring: Bucked Games
Bahcesehir College acqu-hired one of our incubated studios, Glitchy Games to build educational games internally.2020Acqu-hiring: Daxe Games
Fenerbahce Sports Club hired one of our incubated studios, Daxe Games to develop their mobile games.2021Hello 2021!
After having 4 offline events, 32 offline events, 27 active incubation studios and 1126 members; we optimized our system to scale and started creating office spaces for our studios.2021A hotspot for investments
In 2021, 14 studios from Game Factory Incubator got an investment from various VCs and Angel Investors.2021Stronger together
As our motto, we organized over 27 partnered events with multiple partners.2021Success story: Vacuum Games
Vacuum Games reached success in just 9 months in Incubator: published Oil Well Drilling with our partner Zynga.2021Success story: Fubu Games
Fubu Games published their title with Zynga within their 12th month in our Incubator. Fubu published 5 more games following 2022, with an insane production rate of 40+ hypercasual prototypes per month.2021Istanbul to Silicon Valley
We partnered with the City of Istanbul to create the first offline government-backed, game-focused incubation center, OGEM. We built an open office and evet space of 5000+ square meters in Istanbul.2022Global partnership with Google
Game Factory became the first and only Google for Startups partner in the game industry.2022Organizing GameX B2B
Game Factory acquired the organization rights of the B2B section of GameX fairs, which is the largest game exhibition in MENA.2022To be continued...
Let's make history together, join us!
STRONGER THAN EVER
Game Factory quickly became a central power in the game industry, especially in Turkey. Our community helped us, we helped them, and we made history and a huge amount of great success stories as an ecosystem.
4000
Members
80
Game studios
200
Games produced
14
Invested teams
Game Developers
3D Artists
2D Artists
Other Roles
POWERFUL TEAM
The team.
Erdal Sari
Chief Executive Officer
Murat Kahraman
Co-Founder
Ozan Türker Demir
Chief Technology Officer
Bukra Uluer
Human Resources Manager
Oguzhan Bilgin
Product Specialist
Osman C. Akcan
Game Manager
Egemen K. Duman
Event and Program Manager
Ceren Tunay
Community Manager
Sila Cil
Social Media Specialist
Cihan Türker
Intern
Gulnur Sari
