Indietopia

Factsheet

Developer:
Indietopia
Based in Groningen, the Netherlands

Founding date:
April 1, 2014

Website:
indietopia.org

Press / Business contact:
contact@indietopia.org

Social:
twitter.com/IndietopiaNL
facebook.com/Indietopia
Skype

Releases:

Address:
Lübeckweg 2
9723 HE Groningen
the Netherlands

Phone:
+31 (0) 50 211 3663

Description

Indietopia is a game development hubs in the Netherlands, featuring an incubator, accelerator and in-house publisher. Indietopia is geared towards the following goals: connecting indies (small independent computer game developers), helping indies grow from Startup to Professional studio, visibility under the Indietopia label, providing affordable office space for developers, providing one professional agent for serious game customers, publishing of entertainment and serious games. Connecting investors to potential disruptive innovative startups in the field of Serious Gaming and Gamification.

History

Early history

Indietopia was founded on April 1st 2014 (no joke). Founder Mendel Bouman and current indies in the Northern Dutch scene felt there was a rising need to create a hub that would bind all the developers together in the Northern Dutch region as a lack in cohesion in the North Dutch Game industry meant serious lack of business opportunities for all parties involved. Seeing how starting Indie Game Developers were struggling with becoming stable and professional studio’s he realised that this would also need to be addressed by what would eventually become Indietopia.

After that

Indietopia is thriving. After starting out with 2 companies and 5 interns, Indietiopia grew into 20 companies en 15 interns in one year (November 12, 2015), now (2018) Indietopia moved out of the temporary office rental constructions and into a premium location in The Digital City of Groningen, The Netherlands. Indietopia spawned over 26 game development studio's, of which some have started their own hub, based on Indietopia's fouding principles. Indietopia Games, the publisher has published four games since its founding. Pulstar, a simple, yet visually and audio-wise attractive twin stick shooter has sold over 21000 units in one year. Convoy, the second title, a rogue-like, RTS, Mad Max style adventure game sold over 60000 units in a couple of years. Stereo Aereo and Nadia was Here are currently selling since 2017. - In 2018 Indietopia has founded The Indietopia Accelerator. An iniatieve that helps out game development startups by coaching them and financing them together with Venturelab North.

Projects

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Mendel Bouman
Founder

Shan Poon
Publishing co-founder

Mariette Kroeze
Medical Game Publishing co-foudner

Merijn de Boer
Director of Operations

Hedwig Hibma
PR and Communication

Anneke Hogenbirk
Backoffice

Rens van Aggelen
QA and support staff

Contact

Inquiries
hello@indietopia.org

Twitter
twitter.com/IndietopiaNL

Facebook
facebook.com/Indietopia

Web
Indietopia.org