As has been reported on a number of shops together with gamesindustry.biz, Mobidictum and Venturebeat, the Turkish cellular developer Magic Seed has secured $5M in preliminary funding to develop and set up their studio. Reports point out that their first mission shall be a match-3 recreation and the supposed plan is for them to broaden the corporate and open a European workplace. The Turkish video games market has seen huge success not too long ago, with 20% of the US Top 100 Mobile Games in 2021 being developed by Turkish studios.

Although in its early phases, Magic Seed has important business veterans backing it. The founding members of the studio embody Çağrı Öztürk, Rüya Çelikcan and Mert Kasar whom Venturebeat notes beforehand labored with Peak Games. Peak Games was acquired by cellular big Zynga again in 2020 and went on to hitch different Turkish subsidiaries of the corporate in being among the highest incomes for dad or mum firm Zynga.

Young Turks

As we beforehand reported, different builders reminiscent of Umuro have proven there’s important potential within the Turkish marketplace for builders. Investment coming from established corporations has defied financial slowdown within the nation and in reality seen the cellular market develop. The notably ‘Turkish’ nature of among the video games rising from the market is an attention-grabbing signal, and mirrors a creating pattern within the Indian market to create cellular video games that embody native tradition.

Whether or not utilizing seed cash and funding funding to broaden inside Turkiye itself can be preferable, many corporations are searching for to broaden or open branches in Europe correct. Cypher Games for instance goal to utilise a current $3.2M funding to ascertain an workplace in Berlin. As a lot because the Turkish market is rising it appears that evidently a lot of the eye stays in mainland Europe, though we might even see extra money flowing straight into the nation itself because the cellular market turns into extra established.