A quartet of projects focused on helping independent developers recently won £510,000 (or $665,275) from the British Film Institute (BFI).
For Games industrythe four received funding from the production company's National Lottery Innovation Challenge. Companies will invest that money in new tools and resources for unsupported developers.
Rishi Coupland, BFI's director of industrial research and innovation, said the four projects “promise to deliver further creative and commercial success for the games industry, focusing on data, insights, market access and diversity”.
The first of these four projects is a Games Insight Database from Into Games CIC that will provide developers with workforce information, funding availability and salary benchmarking. UKIE's OKRE and Video Game Econometrics provide data on the economic, social and cultural impact of UK industry to “articulate its value”.
Aurora, a business development accelerator from Code Coven, will help developers connect with publishers and investors and “develop the skills and knowledge of underrepresented developers in business knowledge and financing.”
Finally, Games London's Self-Publishing Toolkit is a two-year project that will involve up to 12 UK studios in business development workshops. At the end of the workshops, the data from these studies will be collected in a toolkit.