Global Top Round has picked its Top 10 Game Studios to work with for the next few years. Each studio will be supported with publishing, business strategy and investments across the globe
Overview
SILICON VALLEY – January 21th, 2021. Global Top Round (GTR), an interactive acceleration devoted to supporting early-stage studios from around the world, has today announced the virtual location of its GTR 2020 Conference.
We had an incredibly tough time selecting the Top 10 studios this year. We had studios from all over the world attending the Conference battling it out for the top slot. Unfortunately, we can’t pick them all. So while we’re saddened we had to pass on a few studios, we’re excited to present this year’s Top 10!
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Pineleaf Studios (Norway): is developing Dwarfheim and is situated in Trondheim, Norway currently teamed up with Merge Games to release their incredibly innovative RTS games to the masses. Our first studio in Norway. We can’t wait to see them in full action.
Exalted Studio (France): is developing Big Helmet Heroes. An idle game where you craft your weapons, armors and shield to develop your skills and upgrade your hero. They are a talented team based in Montpellier in the South of France. Our second idle game, after our investment in Epic Guardian, a Top 3 best mobile game selection at the German Developer Awards, in 2016.
Mellowmeat (South Korea): is developing Space Out: Callisto, a top-down action shooter with RPG elements. They aim to create a combative and destructible environment which allows you to craft hundreds of unique skill sets and weaponry to battle through Aliens.
Overflow (Sweden): is a company of 2 talented individuals who are childhood friends. They’ve released 8 commercial titles with the most recent ones being in VR. Now they’re back to PC ready to show their capabilities of developing games. Currently developing Madshot.
UMANIMATION (France): is a company developing Dordogne, an incredible narrative adventure game that immediately caught our eyes. Their team of talented storytellers aim to define the next generation of entertainment content by creating stories people can relate to. A unique game, and a first of its kind in our portfolio.
Viral Studios SL (Spain): is a company based in Badajoz with more than 12 video games developed. They are currently working on a unique game called Lethal Honor Essence. Having completed a successful Kickstarter campaign, they were scouted previously this year to be offered a Top 20 slot. We are happy to welcome them to the GTR Family as a Top 10 a few months later.
Dynamight Studios (Italy): is a studio based in Milan working on “Fractured”, a Sandbox MMORPG that was successfully funded on Kickstarter and has amassed over 90,000 registrations since the beginning of the game. We can’t wait to support them and prepare for the BETA launch in 2021.
Nutfarm (Finland): is a Finnish studio with years of experience from enterprise software, web/app design and other outsourcing gigs. Now they are here to prove themselves in Game Development, with their first title ‘Children of the Eclipse’ – a sci-fi fantasy universe. They are here to stay and prove to the world their talent.
Flat Tail Studios (Sweden): is an indie studio led by the famous Youtuber “BikiniBodhi”. It was founded in 2018 and aims to build titles befitting of an audience. Their first title Last Farewell is a Survival Co-op game where you work together to stay alive for as long as possible. We look forward to increasing the success of their Early Access.
Interactive (Malaysia): is a team of enthusiastic programmers and gamers who have set up a studio in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. They’ve created multiple successful outsourcing projects and are now focused on their internal IPs. Zombie Soup will be their first Original IP scheduled to be released in 2021. We’re excited to support them!
We have an incredible lineup this year, with studios from all over the world. We can’t wait to present our Game Studios once they have grown to become even better businesses to all of our partner investors and publishers. Partners – Watch your inboxes, you’ll have some awesome games with you shortly.
To all of the studios who did not make it, we’d like to give them a shout out and let anyone know – If you want an introduction for potential collaboration to any of these super talented studios, do feel free to send us an email and we will pass you to the right person in the studio.
“2020 was an incredible year for the gaming industry, despite COVID-19, and this has been reflected in our applications this year. We look forward to working together with all the talented teams.” said Rick Nahm, Co-Founder and COO at Global Top Round
“This year we have seen huge interest from studios all over the world, countries that we have not seen before applying to join our program. This year was indeed the most competitive ever. We really look forward to working with the selected Studios and look forward to a long-term collaboration.”, said Pontus Mahler, Director of Business Development at Global Top Round
About Global Top Round
Global Top Round is a global game startup accelerator whose mission is to support small studios from all over the world with development, publishing and fundraising. Since 2015 GTRhas supported over 50 game studios worldwide via their GTR Accelerator program, which sees 10 new games added every year.
GTR works with worldwide partners for Publishing (NetEase, Gameforge, Gamigo, Deep Silver amongst others) and Investors (NCsoft, Neowiz, Line Games, Colopl Next amongst others).
