Celebrating 1 Year of Flanders Game hub
A word from Rik Leenknegt, General Manager of Flanders Game Hub:
1 year ago on April 20th, The Flanders Game Hub was officially launched by Minister Dalle. At the eve of the 2023 edition of the Unwrap festival, the first 11 FGH studios were selected by an international jury of experts. Our mission is to assist these studios in becoming a successful game studio. We do this by offering coaching and expert advice. Our international sounding board consists of people like Jason Della Rocca, Rami Ismail and Nika Nour. The local sounding board consists of our bigger game studios who also represent the games industry in the Flanders Game Hub steering group.
We are now halfway the first coaching year of first batch of Flanders Game Hub supported studios. Lots of people, also from outside the FGH, are tuning in for our expert talks. This points at the demand for talks and initiatives like this. The one on one’s with our experts have already been incredibly impactful for some of our studios, creating new economical perspectives for them along the way.
During last year’s Unwrap we had a crazy BAM! release party. Our ecosystem is vibrant and growing, but we don’t have enough commercial game successes in Flanders yet. This means we need to accelerate our ecosystem. To accelerate you need funding. This is one of the focal points of the FGH for the upcoming months… how to find and connect the most promising studios to the right investor, publisher or VC. Ideally we can make this connection happen at Unwrap 2024. During Unwrap 2024 we also aim to host the biggest sector party of the year : The FGH Release Party!
