No, it’s free to apply.

We will never charge oFON members a fee for the support we provide.

oFON teams receive funding from Rollic and operational support from tiplay studio.

Yes, but we do consider accepting teams from other mobile gaming genres, especially if there is a good track record.

We provide monthly payments to oFON members just to make sure the only thing they focus on is game development. Our experienced executives, game managers and technical leads constantly coach oFON teams in game development, design, art and QA. We provide oFON members with the understanding and vision needed to release hit games. When a game is soft-launched by an oFON team, tiplay studio temporarily assigns some of its employees to them, just to make sure the launch process is accelerated. Our continued support also covers coaching regarding growth, strategy and legalities. Overall, we do everything to help oFON members become successful global gaming startups as fast as possible.

OWS is the only mobile game development platform in the world that enables remote work. OWS is created for oFON members and tiplay studio exclusively in order to boost ideation, creativity and game development processes.

We created a win-win environment for our ecosystem where all parties focus on the same goal: releasing profitable games together. This is why we positioned ourselves as strategic partners who benefit from the same product, rather than investors who expect a specific financial return in a set amount of time.

No. All oFON team members are required to develop games on a full-time basis during their tenure, and they cannot work on another job part-time, full-time or as a freelancer or contractor. They cannot attend a full-time academic program such as an Associate’s Degree, Bachelor’s degree or Master’s Degree.

Yes.

The whole program is virtual, and all oFON members can work remotely. Meetings, workshops and other events are held via online video conferencing.

No, oFON applications are open to the world.

Yes. We do accept teams in between cohorts once in a while, so it may be to your advantage not to wait till the last minute.

After the application is selected as a finalist, you will pitch your team to the jury in 20 minutes virtually. The jury decides whether or not you are accepted to oFON.

The following week the latest.

The jury wants to see how ready you are as a team to grow and how good your capacity is to produce hit games. In addition to the quality of the founding team and its track record, the jury would like to understand how you will handle ideation, creativity and development. You will also explain your financial requirements in detail for one year.

There is no limit to the number of the teams we accept in a cohort.

No, but it will help.

Yes, as long as you don’t have a bounding exclusive contract. In fact, we prefer applicants who have worked with other publishers before, since they definitely appreciate the value of 360-degree coaching and extensive feedback mechanism as well as technical support and community benefits.

No, you cannot, unless the deadline of your exclusive publishing agreement is reached before the official start date of the oFON cohort in question.

We are planning to have summer and winter cohorts, but additional cohorts can be announced.

Although rare, it is possible. This is why we encourage you to apply as soon as you can.

A publishing agreement. oFON members agree to publish all of the games they produce during their tenure for one year exclusively with Rollic and tiplay studio.

Executive members of Rollic and tiplay studio.

Yes, all applicants must be 18 years old or older.

No, for scalability and sustainability purposes. One person may build a great prototype or even a game that can be soft-launched, but it gets very tricky when it comes to launching a game, since it may require adding sophisticated meta game features, integrating a good number of SDKs and as well as hundreds of levels in a week or two.

As a team.

If you decide to become a hypercasual studio, yes! In fact, your previous game industry experience in other verticals can become an indispensable asset if you can convert it into something you can use for hypercasual games. However, it may also do more harm than good if you fail to adapt, as fundamental aspects of hypercasual game development such as production cycle, coding methodologies and art style are very different than, say, casual and midcore.

Of course, we are not interested in your cap table, as long as you have the authority in your company to make strategic decisions such as signing an exclusive publishing deal.

English. You will have to have at least one co-founder who can speak English. However, we do have team members who are fluent in other languages such as Turkish, German and Arabic.

You will be working pretty hard just like all everybody else in the ecosystem, and we will be with you whenever you need us. We expect you to spend 80+ hours a week on your games - that’s how we started our startups, and most people in our community still work that way. You will have weekly and sometimes daily meetings with people from Rollic and tiplay studio in addition to regular events and workshops. You will give monthly briefings to the CEO of tiplay studio, and quarterly reports to the oFON jury regarding your progress in online meetings. We organize informal ecosystem meetings with other community members weekly, just to make sure we share what we learn and keep ourselves up to date. We organize educational workshops regularly for your professional growth, and we encourage you to have mentorship sessions through GAN’s network. We don’t tell you what to code or how to create a model, we just create a positive work environment that is powered by constructive feedback and constant coaching about hypercasual game development. We make sure you have lots of help when you need, especially when you are about to launch a game. We may even assign some of the tiplay studio employees to your team when you are launching a game, just to make sure you have all the support you need.

No.

No.

Definitely.

Turkey, the #1 hypercasual game development ecosystem in the world.

Why not?