Griffin Gaming Partners Launches New $100 Million Fund to Champion World-class Indie Games

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Griffin Gaming Partners (Griffin), one of many world’s main enterprise funds targeted solely on gaming with $1.5 billion beneath administration*, is worked up to disclose a brand new initiative that unlocks thousands and thousands in potential funding for promising indie video games.

The Special Opportunities Fund goals to offer a brand new mannequin for enterprise capital funding in gaming, specializing in project-based financing with easy phrases, by which funding is supplied in change for a share of a recreation’s income. This contrasts with generally used equity-based investments and seeks to supply a greater approach of getting capital into the palms of indie studios, a lot of which aren’t geared up for or focused on conventional equity-based funding.

In current years, the success of indie builders in reaching breakout hits with comparatively modest budgets has made clear each the necessity for and the chance in truthful funding options for small studios. By combining industry-leading experience and $100 million in funding, the Special Opportunities Fund goals to make substantial modifications within the alternatives obtainable to builders.

Tim Bender, CEO of Hooded Horse, additionally serves as Managing Director of the fund, which has already invested in fifteen titles, together with 9 introduced initiatives:

• MENACE: Sci-Fi turn-based tactical RPG created by Overhype Studios (Battle Brothers), which has bought over 250,000 copies in lower than 3 months

• Begone Beast: Top-down co-op horror recreation for as much as 4 gamers, that includes a mix of exploration, fight, and character customization throughout an array of procedurally generated maps

• Expedition: Into Darkness: Dungeon crawler and extraction recreation in a darkish fantasy setting with co-op gameplay

• Vaunted: Sci-Fi turn-based RPG that includes each singleplayer and co-op recreation modes, just lately introduced through the Xbox Partner Preview

• Gilded Destiny: Ambitious hex-based grand technique title set within the Industrial Age

• Darkwood 2: Top-down survival horror sequel to the unique best-selling Darkwood

• Kinstrife: High-fidelity medieval RPG set in an genuine open world with physics-based fight

• Highland Keep: Open-world survival craft recreation set in medieval Scotland, that includes base constructing, colony administration, and real-time motion fight

• Hellforged: Extraction/loot-driven bullet-heaven recreation with a deal with discovering epic gear to struggle off waves of demons

The SOF can be invested in six unannounced initiatives:

• A sci-fi grand technique recreation based mostly on a well-liked guide and TV franchise

• A God recreation with physics mechanics

• A Gladiator administration simulation

• A dinosaur multiplayer RPG

• A tough sci-fi house ARPG

• A fantasy ARPG with base-building

These initiatives signify a mixture of conditions, starting from self-published video games to these signed with a writer, with a number of printed by Hooded Horse.

“Indie games represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the interactive entertainment market today,” says Griffin Managing Director and co-founder Nick Tuosto. “We know developers want a flexible, transparent financing solution, and we’re excited to support their ambitions through the dedicated Special Opportunities Fund. Griffin has been honing its strategy since its formation, and we are proud to bring this new initiative to market with an investment team we believe is uniquely positioned to help exceptional developers realize their full potential.”

“We’re very excited for the transmedia potential of this fund,” says Griffin Managing Director and co-founder Peter Levin. “The very essence of these games and the contemplative nature of their development lead to sticky player communities and loyal followings. Having fund advisors such as film and television producer Dylan Clark (producer of The Batman, The Penguin, Miami Vice) and brand stewards such as Russell Binder (Five Nights at Freddy’s, Angry Birds, The Walking Dead, Dead by Daylight) shows we’re serious about unlocking opportunities for these titles outside of gaming.”

“The potential of indie game development is incredible,” says Tim Bender. “The $100 million this fund makes available to indie studios is going to result in so many more great games being brought to audiences that will love them.”

Griffin’s funding within the indie recreation ecosystem extends outdoors the Special Opportunities Fund as effectively, with fairness investments into quite a lot of impartial studios and the current acquisition of Playdigious, the premier cell porting and publishing studio for premium PC indie video games.

About Griffin Gaming Partners™

Griffin Gaming Partners is among the world’s main enterprise capital companies that focuses solely on the worldwide gaming market and its adjacencies, with $1.5 billion AUM*. The agency is run by Co-Founders and Managing Directors, Peter Levin and Nick Tuosto. Its mission is to be the definitive supply of capital for the video games {industry}, investing in seed via progress levels on the intersection of infrastructure, distribution, content material, and platforms. Griffin deploys capital to firms like Overwolf, Discord, AMPLITUDE Studios, and numerous different gaming initiatives.

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