Blue Ocean Games announces a $ 30 million fund to invest in Indie games by challenging the game

Blue Ocean games She launched a $ 30 million fund to invest in the next generation of Indie games developers.

Support from CraftonPubg and Inzoi publisher, the new investment capital fund has an innovative investment form to support about 100 independent games developers over three years.

The task is that the task is to divert the development of Indie games in the early stage.

Lee is the former head of investment at Krafton (who owns Pubg Studios, unknown and more worlds), and formed his new box with his blessing. In fact, Krafton is only money.

Blue Ocean Games aims to discover and empower promising Indie developers who are outside traditional investment standards. Through the unique financing model, Blue Ocean Games creates paths for leading games that may never reach players.

“There is a structural problem in the industry of independent games, where the gap is between what investors want to finance, what the developers dream about, and what the players yearn for on a large scale.” “Besides filling the financing gap, we are trying to re -perceive the ecosystems itself. By align the demand of players with the passion of the developers by verifying the health of society and reliable financing, our goal is to create an environment where the benefits can become naturally successful success and growth.

When the idea suggested to me in Krafton, the management team was very supportive and agreed to need to create a healthy environmental system in games, where there was a lot of drowning and not enough swimming.

“It is an early games box. But part of that, when I was investing in Krafton, I saw what I thought was structural problems,” he told me. “There is all these macro-micro-tailias-more than three billion players more than these things, all these things support the healthy and profitable games industry. But it is a very small sub-group of teams capable of getting funding easily. But for many of these less famous developers who work on new concepts-there is no financing to a large extent.”

He added: “Either you need a common IP address or a proven team. But if it is unknown and a new intellectual ownership, it is very difficult to obtain financing. However, every year, we see more and more of these small teams to three people who ever come out with great success.

Despite this innovation, he told me that he continued to hear developers who took a lot of personal financial risks, as many of them have to rely on their life partner for many years.

He said: “I tried to think about this field as a lot of creativity and seeing the opportunity happens, but there is no investor who wants to touch him.”

He pointed out that if you examine Steam data, this is a kind of scary and statistical. The percentage of startups that belong to a small blow. He asked me: “Is there a way we can change this so that the investors are happy, and the developers are happy, and the players will be happy? We started from an empty list.”

Sailing instead of safe

The fund uses a distinctive investment tool called SAIL (organized agreement for
Endy’s launch, which provides developers:

● Investing in the concept stage, before the first playable building.
● Financing $ 100,000 per developer (up to 300,000 dollars per team), spent over two years.
● The goal, the features of checking the health of the market instead of self -inspection points.
● Hybrid stock agreement and revenues that balance the monitoring of developers with the investor’s revenues.
● Maintaining the developer of IP ownership

The fund will also provide practical support behind financing, including assistance in establishing, notebooks, and guidance of the veterans in the industry. Developers will be assembled in groups, creating a cooperative society that can exchange knowledge and resources. While the opening box has been improved for individual developers and the smaller teams who are founders for the first time, the company plans to expand support to include larger and more experienced difference in the future through subsequent funds.

“In Krafton, we believe that innovation in the game industry often comes from the Index community, but funding at the early stage is one of the biggest challenges for new developers,” Maria Park, Corcavone’s head of development, said in a statement. “The Blue Ocean Games developer Indie offers a model to think forward providing decisive financial support that enhances a sustainable way to succeed. We look forward to working closely with them and seeing the amazing games that emerge from the program.”

High tide game challenge

The Blue to Blue Ocean Games is “RISing Tide”, which is a new and continuous series of competitions and online challenges designed to help developers in the health of ideas, gain recognition, and enhance their projects – whether they are seeking funding. The first Tide Ruleing Challenge will be launched on May 1, 2025, in partnership with Global Game Jam, with applications to open direct financing simultaneously.

The application period is the entire month of May, with some vote in June. The goal is to find about 100 teams over the next three years or so.

“Rising Tide is an idea that proves a floor for gaming developers at every stage and from every background,” explained to me. “It is a great opportunity to verify the validity of ideas and gain confidence needed to perpetuate more time and resources for the project. Participants can follow funding if they choose, but there is no commitment. By supporting developers in the concept stage while checking health and potential financing, we are not only investing in games – we are investing in the future of industry and the next generation of creative talents.”

He pointed out that investors want a kind of checking the health of the market, which provides some of the comfort that developers work on the correct game.

So Ocean Blue games also started a jam -like competition called Tide Ruleing Challenge. The experimental version of this will occur in May, and if it succeeds, the team will do so every few months. Instead of appearing with a full game, developers can show trailer when they think the game will look. He told me that this is a more friendly task, and will give judges and other observers enough information to vote. The confrontation can be the trailer.

Hopefully, this multiple winners who will get a “quick pass” will highlight, if you are a winner of this rising challenge in the tide, you will get some small health verification. Then there is a very urgent request to apply for funding from the Blue Ocean Games box. As long as the startup completes this order, the startup is guaranteed corresponding to the box. The winners can be funded for up to $ 300,000 over two years.

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Blue Ocean

The company’s name comes from focusing on financing the “blue ocean” concepts without many competitors. These concepts have the validity of the market health and enable ambitious creators to turn their ideas into commercially viable games. The Fund is located in Toronto and was established with the help of Toronto International and the Canada Embassy to South Korea.

He told me that the parties have been planning the fund since 2022, but it was time to issue news.

Lee said that VCS can bring some value to startups with major relationships, such as knowing the difference that can do external development, which leads to a lot of work from the starting start team.

Often, many teams do not have a budget for vocal capabilities, so the Ocean Blue games will get a budget to bring external vocal people who can spend time with vocal companies.

The box contains eight people working full time, while Li is the only founder. A few of them work on developers, each of which has a kind of specialization to help startups.

Against tide?

I asked whether I felt that this was a round -round step on his part, given the scarcity of the apparent investment that started to return recently in the quarter or two last.

“I noticed many investors to stay away from pure content, such as financing pure games, and even getting away from the early planning stage,” he told me. “We did not plan for this time, but we believe that the time is very right because there are many people affected by the demobilization of workers. We believe that if this first evidence of the concept succeeds, and other investors follow his example, it is possible that they will become a standard for financing many people in their first game.”

If some succeed, they will have a portfolio to appear when applying for a job industry.

Obtaining compatibility between investors and developers

“We are thinking for many people, and it will help them finance them for two years to progress mainly in their career,” he said. “But I think it is separate from what is going on in the economy, part of the reason for the specified game issue is that many investments were copying what the technology world is doing. For example, stock investments are usually treasures, and it is exactly what Y Combinator does to finance startups.”

Many assume that the start -up goal is to become rhinoceros, or obtain a billion dollars value. So many entrepreneurs revolve through a set of ideas in search of Unicorn’s idea. But many Indie developers do not have a single manufacture. He told me they are excited to make a specific game.

He said: “They want to make an excited game for it, even if the potential of the market is a little smaller than the unicorn.” “This (focus on unit in technology) creates an imbalance between investors and game developers. It leads to disappointment of investors. So we have already created a completely new investment contract. We call it sailing for blue ocean games. Thus, the abbreviation is organized for the agreement to launch Indie or sail.”

He told me that he believes that this would lead to cutting the pie in the right way, which gives developers what is more important for them and investors are more important to them.

“The concepts of financing for winning solutions will be,” he said.

He told me that he does not want to start a new publisher because such companies can only work with some games at a time that requires a lot of resources. Games also tend to move away from games financing to finance games, neighboring industries or platforms.

“Our mission is to build an environmental system here,” he said. “Part of the way we diversify the risks is that these are small examination sizes, a hundred dollars checks.”