{"id":3594,"date":"2021-06-11T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2021-10-24T04:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T11:32:41","slug":"veloxia-secures-3m-to-make-idle-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/veloxia-secures-3m-to-make-idle-games","title":{"rendered":"Veloxia Secures $3M To Make Idle Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Istanbul-based Veloxia Technology Interactive announced that it had netted $3 million in a funding round.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Veloxia will use the money to scale up its efforts to develop more idle games for mobile devices. The studio already has a hit title, Space Colony: Idle, for iOS and Android devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collective Spark headed the round, while additional funding was received from Ak Portfoy Girisim Sermayesi, Bogazici Ventures, and other angel investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Veloxia was founded in June 2019 by trio Tugay Aly\u0131ld\u0131z, Melih G\u00fcndo\u011fdu, and Mehve\u015f Altay.&nbsp; The company aimed to create innovative products in mobile gaming globally published its debut title, Space Colony: Idle, in late 2019. Space Colony: Idle became a success with nearly a million downloads and is considered one of the best strategy games in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The studio envisions becoming a &#8220;unicorn in global consumer technologies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;Our infrastructure is backed by behavioral economy models which we are constantly developing as we scale our products,&#8221; said Veloxia CEO Tugay Aly\u0131ld\u0131z. &#8220;We work toward differentiating Veloxia from other mobile gaming startups with our approach to monetization in game design and by successfully managing products in different categories under a cluster structure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Aly\u0131ld\u0131z said the investment would allow the company to scale up its know-how in developing idle games, strengthen its analytics capabilities, and create more titles in the strategy and action game segments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idle games are the perfect way to spend your time when you&#8217;re bored, and they can be played in small bursts. However, because of their simple gameplay mechanics, idle games don&#8217;t require too much focus on your part, and they&#8217;re often repetitive, where you&#8217;ll be tapping the screen many times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the rise of mobile games, Turkey is starting to become a hotspot for mobile game studios. Industry insiders are even comparing it to Finland, home to some of the world&#8217;s most famous gaming companies with the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/dolphin-entertainment-buys-pr-agency-b-hi\" title=\"Dolphin Entertainment Buys PR Agency B\/HI\">Rovio<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/supercell-invests-2-8m-in-2up-games\" title=\"Supercell invests $2.8m in 2UP Games\">Supercell<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of recently, Turkey-based game companies have become so popular that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/zynga-to-acquire-mobile-ad-platform-chartboost-for-250m\" title=\"Zynga To Acquire Mobile Ad Platform Chartboost for $250m\">Zynga<\/a> acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/zynga-acquires-peak-for-1-8b\" title=\"Zynga Acquires Peak for $1.8B\">Peak Games<\/a> for $1.8 billion in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Istanbul-based Veloxia Technology Interactive announced that it had netted $3 million in a funding round.&nbsp; Veloxia will use the money to scale up its efforts to develop more idle games for mobile devices. The studio already has a hit title, Space Colony: Idle, for iOS and Android devices. Collective Spark headed the round, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[724,481,722,372,33,723,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}