{"id":80829,"date":"2019-02-07T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/336221"},"modified":"2019-02-07T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:19:00","slug":"marvel-strike-force-dev-foxnext-games-opens-up-indie-dev-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/07\/marvel-strike-force-dev-foxnext-games-opens-up-indie-dev-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Strike Force dev FoxNext Games opens up indie dev fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>FoxNext Games, the development studio behind the mobile game <em>Marvel Strike Force<\/em>, has opened up a development fund aimed at arming indie devs with the resources they need to create and release new games.<\/p>\n<p>With an unspecified sum at its disposal, FoxNext\u00a0Games&#8217; indie fund has already picked up a few projects including Altered Matter\u2019s <em>Etherborn<\/em> and some yet-unannounced titles.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the team says its goal is to find and support \u201clike-minded developers focused on innovation, experimentation and a certain amount of creative risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement also comes as FoxNext\u00a0Games\u2019\u00a0parent company 21st Century Fox is moving toward closing a deal that will ultimately see it acquired by Disney. That pending arrangement has been in the works for a little over a year now, but <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/02\/fox-reports-steady-q2-net-significant-progress-toward-closing-disney-deal-1202550773\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that the company is making \u201csignificant progress\u201d toward closing the merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: FoxNext Games, the development studio behind the mobile game Marvel Strike Force, has opened up a development fund aimed at arming indie devs with the resources they need to create and release new games. With an unspecified sum at its disposal, FoxNext\u00a0Games&#8217; indie fund has already picked up a few projects including Altered Matter\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}