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Nina Roussakoff (Lovewish Games) on the West Yorks Games Accelerator 2022
Come along to our lunchtime briefing to hear more about this groundbreaking growth accelerator for games developers and games tech providers in South Yorkshire.
Position your company as one-to-watch, gaining unrivalled access to top industry leaders, investors, major studios, publishers and decision-makers from across the sector, giving your business and your games an edge in today’s ever more competitive market.
This exciting new programme will see two accelerators running simultaneously: a Games Developer Accelerator, for those who are generating their own IP, and a Games Tech Accelerator, for those who are supporting the games sector. Each is designed to drive growth and success for your company.
Each company accepted onto the Games Accelerator will be allocated two places at all of our bespoke masterclasses, events and workshops in the critical areas you need to fast track your business.
The Games Accelerator will be delivered virtually across approximately six half days in October and November. Full details of the programme and information on how to apply will be available from Tuesday 9 August at https://www.indielabgames.co.uk/south-yorks-games-accelerator-2022 Applications are open until Wednesday 14 September.
The South Yorkshire Games Accelerator is fully funded, so there will be no cost to your company to take part.
There are a limited number of places available on the programme and we expect a high level of interest, so would encourage potential applicants to come along to one of our online briefings to hear more.
The Games Accelerator briefing will take place on Thursday 18 August 2022, from 1pm – 2pm
Beverley McMillan, Indielab’s Head of Programmes, will be joined by Indielab Coach Ella Romanos. Also speaking at the session will be Nina Roussakoff, Founder of Lovewish Games, who took part in our accelerator programme for games studios in West Yorkshire, held in the first part of 2022. She will discuss her experience of attending an Indielab games accelerator, and how it supported her company’s growth.
Indielab support candidates from underrepresented groups, and actively encourages applications from all sectors of the community. We are committed to equality of opportunity and aim to ensure that our participants are representative of the diverse community we serve. If you require any adjustments or alternative arrangements, please contact Matthew Poxon, Programme Manager: matthew@weareindielab.co.uk
Tanya Vital (Vital Culture UK) on the West Yorks Games Accelerator 2022
This session is for company founders and senior team members.
The session will take place on Zoom, and a link will be circulated in advance to everyone who can attend.
The South Yorkshire Games Accelerator 2022 is run in partnership with TEAM SY, a project part-financed by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund and delivered in partnership with Barnsley Council and Capital Enterprise.
Ella Romanos is a lead trainer and facilitator at Indielab Games Accelerator. She has been working with Indielab for the last two years, bringing Indielab’s industry-leading accelerator to the games sector. Ella is a leading voice in the games industry. She is founder of Fundamentally Games, working with games studios to bring amazing sustainable experiences to players. Since 2008, she has been helping build and manage games development teams and projects. She has a background as a growth consultant with game developers, investment funds and games-related organisations, and has a deep understanding of the resources, funding methods, processes and commercial considerations of taking games to market. She has been directly responsible for releasing over 50 games, and has acted as head of studio, executive producer and advisor for many organisations, most notably Pinewood Film Advisors, Agatha Christie Ltd and Altara Games Fund. She is a mentor and a highly-regarded trainer. She has sat on the board of directors of UKIE, the UK trade body for games, for five years.
Beverley McMillan is responsible for overseeing all of Indielab’s bespoke growth accelerator and export programmes for TV, film, games and animation companies. Beverley is based in Indielab’s Glasgow office and works across the nations and regions to support sustainable creative ecosystems and has a passion to promote and support diversity and inclusion within the creative content sectors.
Prior to Indielab, Beverley spent eight years as Learning and Events Producer at BAFTA Scotland where she produced a variety of events and masterclasses and facilitated mentoring and development for new talent across the film, TV and game industries.
Nina Roussakoff is Founder and Game Director of Lovewish Games. She is a games industry veteran of over 15 years, and has worked on narrative games such as Broken Sword 5 and Beyond A Steel Sky, as well as hobby VN releases such as The Trouble with Earl Grey. She was a finalist for the Game Hero Award in Narrative Design in 2020, and finalist for the Game Designer of the Year GameHERs Award in 2021.
In 2021 she founded Lovewish, a diverse games company committed to an inclusive and neurodiverse environment with flexible and tailored work-life balance. Lovewish’s company vision is to create games that unashamedly celebrate female fantasies and never compromise on gameplay.
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