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Giving back to the industry that gave us everything

We are a group of friends and investors united by our love for video games who created a fully boutique venture fund exclusively for indie PC & Consoles licenses

Our adaptive approach aims at filtering, assessing and early funding upcoming impactful titles all while offering the most adaptated business model to independent productions

We have a fifteen years know-how in the industry and brought our former gaming companies to high profitability and up to the point of publicly listing them

We co-invest with established publishers or work jointly with experienced business partners to ensure that whether our games self-publish or not, they ship in the best conditions possible

Three flexible ways to work together

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Developer Friendly

We are not a bank, we are not a family office, we are not an institution. Every penny invested comes from our own pockets. You talk directly with the investors, you talk directly with us

Experienced advising

We have built brands from scratch. While doing so we gathered an extensive savoir-faire in digital distribution, royalties, payment service providers, social affiliation, influencer marketing, SEO-SEM and monetization of virtual economies

Creative Freedom

Making indie games is hard and takes time. Productions have their highs and lows. While we are hands off and our teams have full creative freedom, we ensure over the course of the development to get them the necessary help to iterate on their original visions.

Industry connections

Getting the right advising oftens means talking to the right people. It can be hard for indie teams to get proper attention from first parties, platforms and other key players, for that matter we step in at your demand to make sure you get the right nudge towards the direction you want for your game

60
Million

Games Sold

We witnessed over more than a decade what gamers wanted and delivered it to them

Now we intend to do the same by financing projects players look forward to get their hands on

Team

Mikel

Founder

Pioneer in bringing games distribution from physical to digital in Europe from 2005, he also facilitated the world wide emergence of real money transactions for digital goods linked to virtual economies allowing millions of players to exchange items and in-game currencies in 100+ titles. Pushing his gaming ventures from garage business to an IPO's opening bell, he remains humble in anything he undertakes. His approach of "Players first" bases his decision making entirely on many successful years navigating the gaming industry and giving gamers what they want. Guilty pleasures : MMOs, RPG's, RTS's and a moderate consumption of AAA titles

Bertrand

CEO & Investment partner

Kicked off in the industry witnessing the evolution of games distribution working for french start-up Nexway managing retail accounts like Amazon Europe, Deutsche Telekom and publishers like Electronic Arts, Bethesda, Warner Bros, ArenaNet [...]. 2014 he joined Mikel's ventures as head of game operations and helped push the 100 employees structure to outstanding financial results. Quadrilingual and considering Goat simulator as the best game ever created, Bertrand's ultimate goal is to make Game Seer a highly performing entity in funding studios producing iterations that metacritics will unanimously praise. Guilty pleasures : Old MMOs, Souls games and way too many indies

Thomas

Publishing producer & Scouting

Thomas started in the early 2010's by organising events in the rising esport scene across France, including the ZrT Trackmania Cup, which sold nearly 15k tickets in the mythic Bercy Arena in Paris. He then chose to pursue his studies in the field of video game Production and Marketing, which led to great opportunities at Ubisoft, Focus Home Interactive and Xbox, where he was part of the Release team. Now as a portfolio acquisitions manager for Game Seer, he's looking for awesome games to be shipped! Fond of: Strategy, RPG, Shooter, Management/Sim, games. Previous working titles: Ori and the Will of the Wisp, Far Cry 5, Curse of the Dead Gods.

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Half Sword

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Our pledge to indie teams

We deconstruct publishing to best adapt to your needs

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From digital distribution pioneers to game investors

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Interesting Manifesto from @mixedmartialarx, formerly ZA/UM.
Echoes strongly in these days.
Rest of the Manifesto : https://summereternal.com/

Dev Q&A with Frank & Ivan!

Wishlist Half Sword on Steam! #faq #halfsword #indiegame #indiedev #tgs2024 #willie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hthb3nVA74

Hey folks! Here comes a major balance update along with a great discount! This update includes changes to character balance and cards work, gameplay improvements, and fixes for serious bugs. For more details, check it out on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/691690/view/4693403706396896384

#indiedev #Steam #sale

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