Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu opened the doors of OGEM, the digital game center they have been focusing on for a long time, with today’s event. This publicly supported development center is waiting for all young entrepreneurs who want to make their dream games come true.
As of today, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has launched the Game Development Center OGEM, which was established to support the dreams of young entrepreneurs in the game industry. Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, made the opening speech. He wants OGEM to be the biggest game development center expressed.
OGEM, located in the IMM Communication Coordination Center in the Golden Horn, together with the leading names of the sector at the global level, as of today., to enable young people to realize and develop the games of their dreams. will enable.
OGEM will provide all kinds of opportunities to developer teams from equipment to training.
President İmamoğlu played Hit and Boom right after the opening speech. İmamoğlu’s name in the game was MetroCrafter.
We can say that OGEM aims to help young entrepreneurs from A to Z in game development. Because competent people graduated from related fields of universities will provide various trainings to the development teams under this roof, and special game development equipment such as MoCap, which is very difficult to reach in Turkey, will also be offered to the same teams. Various events and tournaments will also be held at OGEM with the leading names of the gaming industry.
Ekrem İmamoğlu, who made the opening speech, stated that they trust young entrepreneurs at least as much as they do under OGEM, and used the following expressions; “With this being such a center, we are taking a step towards expanding an area that has already been successful. From now on, you have as much right as we do, and all entrepreneurs will have a say here as well as we do. We will develop this as well.
OGEM’s expectation from young people, Emphasizing that “You ask, we do it”, İmamoğlu said, “You sit down, work, cooperate with our friends. Let’s invite institutions and organizations from the sectors that want to cooperate here. So, now that this is such a center, we are taking a step towards expanding an already successful area.” used the phrases.
Many names from the game world were at the opening ceremony of OGEM
At the event held at the IMM Communication Coordination Center Youtuber, esports host and game developer Dora Ozsoy and Owner of GamersTurk channel There were many famous names from the gaming and broadcasting community such as Ergin Berke Arslan.
To the horror and mobile-oriented games that he has published on YouTube for about 6 years. Reaching over 700 thousand subscribers Ergin Berke Arslan expressed the following about OGEM; “Until now, I have given a lot of support to game development centers and many small game companies in Turkey. I try to help everyone who contacted me about this issue as much as I can in order to support the Turkish market. I think OGEM will also pave the way for people, because game developers “As they try to do everything with their own budget, it inevitably gets blocked after a certain point. I think this area, which Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has built, will pave the way for game developers.”
After stepping into the gaming industry with his YouTube channel, he became the founder. Signed under 5 different games of Stratera Games Dora Özsoy’s views on OGEM were as follows; “First of all, there are high-tech computers here. As you know, it is not very possible for young people who want to develop games to have access to these computers and this technology in such a period. Paid software and equipment are all over dollars. they will be working at tables side by side. They will be exchanging information. Experts will come and transfer their expertise to the teams. In summary, we really want to produce games that the whole world can play together.”
Former Google Executive Dr. Taylan Yıldız: “Turkish entrepreneurs in the game industry have proven themselves very well in this regard”
Former Google Manager, IMM Assembly Member Dr. Taylan Yildiz At the opening event of OGEM was with the youth. Thinking that OGEM will pave the way for micro export, Yıldız used the following statements about the development center; “The state of the economy in Turkey is known, and what we need the most is to do high value-added work, that is, to make a lot of money by putting in less money and to share it with our young people. The pioneers of these will be young people anyway. We know this and what we call micro-exports. One of the best ways to sell things to the world with dollars is to develop games. they have proven themselves very well in this regard and there is a great experience with a great culture in this. We, as Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Game Factory, actually tried to be an opportunity to accelerate that environment a little more, to market it to the world quickly, and to create employment here, for young people with very good ideas and energy.”