Young business people, who have invested millions of dollars in numerous initiatives with the EGİAD Angels Investment Network, have recently signed another initiative that will exemplify the partnership culture. Youcan Games, a game investment company composed of business people who are members of EGİAD Angels, experienced entrepreneurs from the game industry and leading representatives of the business world in Izmir; With the first game released by the first Game Initiative Team to support it, it made a successful entry into the industry by taking its place in the list of the most downloaded games in America. The game development team, which consists of entrepreneurs who are all interested in game development, achieved worldwide success in a short period of 2 months and realized their first dreams. Thus, Youcan Games started its activities as a Game Investment Company to provide investment, technical expertise and publishing support to game entrepreneurs to establish their own companies through EGİAD Angels together with its strategic partner Ruby Games.

Levent Kuşgöz, Youcan Games Investment and Management Leader, He stated that they are pleased with the successful outcome of the innovative investment model that they have developed in such a short time. Kuşgöz invited all individuals and teams with a passion for developing Hyper Casual Games to the model they have established, stating that they will unconditionally provide all the financial and technical expertise necessary for the integration and successful game development processes. Noting that the Youcan Games project is the result of a total of 1 year of preparatory work with Arda Ürper, Hüseyin Kadıoğlu, Cem Elmasoğlu, Rasim Kurum, Melisa İtmeç and Arda Yılmaz, who participated in the inception and implementation of the project, Kuşgöz said that the entrepreneurial teams of Youcan Games, who quickly entered the industry, started working with DEPARK. He stated that he started working at Dokuz Eylul University Technopark.

We want to build gaming startups, not prototypes

Drawing attention to the recent acceleration of the success of gaming initiatives in Turkey, Kuşgöz said that they have been watching the gaming industry closely for a long time and that they believe this great potential for success in Turkey is being harmed by the usual pressure to produce serial prototypes.

Kuşgöz stated that they noticed that the game startups that depended their income on the prototyping system were moving away from their main goal of becoming successful game companies and transforming themselves into structures that prepare prototypes or video content, saying: “The initiatives launched in this way not to develop high-quality successful games, but to produce more prototypes, they should determine Ruby Games, with whom we collaborate in publishing our successful games, provides invaluable strategic support to our model with its experience in the mobile game industry and its outstanding achievements. Ruby Games introduces the games we have developed with its Expert Marketing team to the whole world, and also shares industry data with our game initiatives, providing data proven feedback as we create new game ideas and in our steps to bring these ideas to life. This strategic support sets the game initiation ives in our model are able to see their goals more clearly and achieve success with more confident steps by creating data-driven game ideas rather than initiative-driven.”

We are Founder Studio, we invite all game entrepreneurs to make their dreams come true

Recalling that companies that are investors in the sector and help startups, are called Venture Studio, Kuşgöz said: “Youcan Games positions itself as Founder Studio, meaning “founder”, because it works in a structure that allows entrepreneurial teams to start their own companies. Experienced entrepreneurs, who aim to be included in Founder Studio, will be able to produce games for the game industry in a short time, with financial support and guidance from Youcan Games in the field of data. , and have the ability to test and publish their games as the owner of their own business.

We have invested in young entrepreneurs, our future

Alp Avni Yelkenbiçer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of EGIAD, stating that they have scrutinized the gaming industry; “We had the opportunity to scrutinize the game ecosystem in line with the goal we set ourselves at the start of the term. During the research, we brought to life the Youcan Games project developed by EGİAD Angels. Thanks to this partnership, we wanted to spread the games released here around the world and we are happy to grab the first success. We have taken such a step so that our skilled labor force in this field does not go abroad. We have made a good choice by investing in young people, who are our future. We will pass on the message ‘you can do it too’ to Young Entrepreneurs. I would like to thank all the EGİAD Game Industry Group who participated in this training.” he said.

Born from EGİAD, Youcan Games attracted a lot of attention for the investment of the project.

Youcan Games, Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce of Izmir and EGİAD 9.-10. Term President Cemal Elmasoğlu, İzmir Chamber of Commerce Vice President Emre Kızılgüneşler, EGİAD President Alp Avni Yelkenbiçer, EGİAD Angels Chief Executive Officer Levent Kuşgöz, EGİAD 11 Term President Temel Aycan Şen, EGIFED President and EGİAD 14 Term President Aydlter Investment EGIAD board members, EGIAD Angel Network members, business people from Izmir, as well as people with experience in the software and game industry such as Rasim Kurum.

Source: (BHA) – Beyaz News Agency