Bromma, Sweden. April 29, 2021 -- WINGS Interactive and Riot Games have announced a new partnership in which Riot Games is contributing $1M to invest in games by women and marginalized gender developers.
Over the last two years WINGS has actively funded indie games by diverse teams. With the added investment of Riot Games, WINGS will provide even more opportunities for marginalized developers.
“When we started the Underrepresented Founders program, we acknowledged that creating necessary change in the games industry was only possible through the right partnerships,” explains Brendan Mulligan, Associate Director of Corporate Development at Riot Games. “We knew that we needed to find community partners who have been championing underrepresented developers, hear their stories, and learn from their experience. WINGS has an awesome track record of backing women and marginalized gender developers and we can’t wait to add our efforts to theirs as we begin to even the playing field for games financing together.”
WINGS invests in games made by teams with strong diversity, where women and marginalized gender developers hold key creative, technical or business positions. The investment decisions are guided by a selection committee of women developers. With investment of up to $500K per game, the focus is on helping developers build a sustainable studio with a developer-first approach, with terms that ensure developers get revenue share from the first dollar, have complete creative and business control, own their IP rights, publishing rights and more.
WINGS has reviewed over 200 games from women and marginalized gender developers, and is already supporting 8 titles that have or will soon come to market. This includes the award-winning Later Daters (Bloom Digital), the highly anticipated Button City (Subliminal Games), the new Don’t Forget Me (The Moon Pirates) & more on their roster found at wingsfund.me/our-games.
If you would like more information about the Riot Games and WINGS Interactive announcement, please contact corina@wingsfund.me.
About WINGS Interactive
WINGS is an investment fund focused on indie games by teams in which women and marginalized genders developers have key positions. Our investment decisions are driven by a selection committee of outstanding women game developers. We focus on high potential games that will be successful on the market. To apply visit wingsfund.me, and explore the full roster of WINGS funded games at wingsfund.me/our-games.
WINGS is also the presenter of Elevate, an annual 15-week global online incubator for indie game developers. For more information please contact contact@windsfund.me
About Riot Games
Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports.
As League enters its second decade, Riot continues to evolve the game while delivering new experiences to players with Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, League of Legends: Wild Rift, and multiple work-in-progress titles. Riot is also expanding the world of Runeterra through multimedia projects across music, comic books, board games, and the upcoming animated series Arcane.
Founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, and led by CEO Nicolo Laurent, Riot is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has 3,000+ Rioters in 20+ offices worldwide.