Indielab Games reveals West Yorks cohort for inaugural Export Lab

27th June 2022

Meet the companies selected for Indielab Games' first Export Lab - created to drive international business success for games studios based in West Yorkshire.

Indielab Games, a recently launched division of Indielab - the acclaimed provider of growth programmes for the UK’s creative industries – is delighted to announce the cohort for its first ever Games Export Lab, created to drive international business success for games studios based in West Yorkshire.

Games Export Lab, which officially starts today, is supported by the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership’s (the LEP) Creative Catalyst programme. Its participants are Bad Reaction, Gas Light, Isokron, Kwizzbit, Vital Culture and Vixentail. Three studios, Isokron, Kwizzbit and Vital Culture, were participants in the inaugural Indieab West Yorks business accelerator programme launched in the region earlier this year, also supported by the LEP.

The Games Export Lab has been established to provide games studios in the region with all they need to prepare an export action plan and ready themselves for international business, including an in-depth knowledge of specific local markets and an enhanced understanding of international consumption trends and new technologies. There will also be a funded opportunity to attend Gamescon, a major industry event, this August. The programme will be delivered over the summer in partnership with UKIE (the association for UK Interactive Entertainment), Game Republic and Yorkshire and Humber Department for International Trade and will comprise a mix of online activities and in-person sessions, held in Leeds.

Adrian Scully from Isokron says:

“Indielab runs incredible programmes, packed with inspirational speakers and valuable advice. We learned so much about how to structure and grow our business from the initial West Yorks Indielab growth accelerator that applying for the Games Export Lab programme was a natural next step. The most successful games companies all operate on a global basis, so this will be an invaluable opportunity for us to ready our business and our products to capitalise on opportunities in the international marketplace.”

Victoria Powell, Indielab’s CEO adds:

“We have had a wonderful reception to this first ever Games Export Lab and are excited to be supporting games studios in West Yorkshire as they look outwards to the global market. It is good to be working with the LEP once more and we applaud its far-reaching vision for the creative industries in the region.”

Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire concludes:

“It’s brilliant to be able to support such a wide range of people in these fantastic games businesses across West Yorkshire. Through the opportunities, experience, and open discussion these programmes offer, it means that we are building the right foundations not only for these businesses to achieve their growth goals, but also to create a network that will live on, beyond the end of each programme.”