{"id":49920,"date":"2026-11-08T04:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/how-to-get-investment-for-your-video-game-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T04:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:35:15","slug":"how-to-get-investment-for-your-video-game-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/how-to-get-investment-for-your-video-game-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get investment for your video game in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>GamesIndustry.biz<\/em> hosted a panel during Game Republic&#8217;s Investment Summit at MCM Comic Con in London on October 23, where editorial director Jon Hicks talked to Lirui Ding (principal at Transcend Fund), Nick Cavander (senior portfolio manager at Creative UK), and Cassia Curran (founder of Curran Games Agency) about the current state of investment in the games industry.<\/p>\n<p>The panel gave advice on a number of questions facing developers in 2026, namely: where is the money, what are investors looking for, what should you put in a pitch, and how important are wishlists?<\/p>\n<p> Where is the money? <\/p>\n<p>The money for making games is still there, said Ding, even if it&#8217;s harder to access now than it was in the past. He recommended trying a mix and match approach, looking for pots of funding from different sources, like Kickstarter or government grants \u2013 an approach that Spilt Milk&#8217;s Nicholas Lovell used to great effect for the development of Trash Goblin.<\/p>\n<p>Cavander agreed: &#8220;There&#8217;s just bits everywhere,&#8221; he said, pointing towards government pots like the BFI Global Screen Fund and the UK Games Content Fund, as well as angel investors and informal investment groups formed of high-net-worth individuals or families.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/how-to-get-investment-for-your-video-game-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GamesIndustry.biz hosted a panel during Game Republic&#8217;s Investment Summit at MCM Comic Con in London on October 23, where editorial director Jon Hicks talked to Lirui Ding (principal at Transcend Fund), Nick Cavander (senior portfolio manager at Creative UK), and Cassia Curran (founder of Curran Games Agency) about the current state of investment in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4306,36],"class_list":["post-49920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gaming","tag-investment","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}