{"id":61665,"date":"2014-01-29T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T11:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61665"},"modified":"2014-01-29T13:47:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T11:47:44","slug":"square-enix-takes-a-stab-at-supporting-indie-devs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61665-square-enix-takes-a-stab-at-supporting-indie-devs","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix takes a stab at supporting indie devs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix has launched the pilot phase of its &#8220;Collective&#8221; indie game promotion program.<\/p>\n<p>For 28 days, Square Enix Collective will feature three projects from indie developers, Ruffian Games, Kitfox Games, and Tuque Games.<\/p>\n<p>The community will choose which projects they want to see go through to a crowd-funding process via partnership with Indiegogo.<\/p>\n<p>Projects which successfully raise funds may also find support from Square Enix through the development process, and assistance in distributing the final project across digital channels once completed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s up to the teams how much or little help they want from Square Enix and it&#8217;s our opportunity to help some fantastic games become a reality and uncover the development stars of the future,\u201d said Phil Elliott, project lead on Collective.<\/p>\n<p>The three teams taking part in the pilot phase of Collective will showcase three very different game concepts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruffian Games was established in 2008 and has shipped a number of titles in the past, including Crackdown 2 with Microsoft.<\/li>\n<li>Kitfox Games is a new developer, with its first game Shattered Planet set for release this March.<\/li>\n<li>Tuque Games \u2013 also a new developer \u2013 is hoping to launch its first title via Collective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Head on over to the <a title=\"Square Enix Collective\" href=\"http:\/\/collective.square-enix.com\/\">Square Enix Collective website<\/a> to check out the indie games and get voting.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this idea? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61670-sa-game-pixel-boy-heading-to-wii-u.html\">SA game Pixel Boy heading to Wii U<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61669-google-turns-chrome-into-lego-builder.html\">Google turns Chrome into Lego builder<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61666-r5-million-damage-in-biggest-eve-online-conflict-in-history.html\">R2 million damage in biggest EVE Online conflict in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61664-elder-scrolls-online-xbox-live-gold-subscription-required.html\">Elder Scrolls Online: Xbox Live Gold subscription required<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix is piloting its &#8220;Collective&#8221; program to support indie devs on their path to getting games developed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":61675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,11973,211],"class_list":["post-61665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-square-enix-collective","tag-square-enix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}