Istanbul Game Entrepreneurship Academy: 9999in1 Space Project, prepared by Çekmeköy Municipality with the support of Istanbul Development Agency and carried out in partnership with Özyeğin University, Oyunder, Helyum, was launched at Özyeğin University Nişantepe Campus. To launch; Çekmeköy District Governor Resul Çelik, Çekmeköy Mayor Ahmet Poyraz, Özyeğin University Rector Prof. Dr. Esra Gençtürk, Serkan Korkmaz Arslan from Istanbul Development Agency, OYUNDER President Tansu Kendirli, Helyum A.Ş. Founding Partner Metin Yıldız, Project Legal Representative, Çekmeköy Deputy Mayor Latif Coşar, game entrepreneurs and mentors attended.
Bringing the game industry stakeholders together in Istanbul in order to strengthen cooperation and community relations in the digital game ecosystem, contributing to the entrepreneurship ecosystem in our country, helping entrepreneurs prepare for international competition conditions, making sectoral progress sustainable and standing by entrepreneurs from idea validation to commercialization, the appropriate “Istanbul Game Entrepreneurship Academy” to date; He provided nearly 2,000 hours of training to approximately 400 students. "Istanbul Game Entrepreneurship Academy", Presidential Digital Transformation Office, which strives for game entrepreneurs to take place in the sector by conducting training and mentoring programs, intensive conventional and digital promotional activities, panels with the participation of all actors of the game ecosystem, gameathon events, demoday, webinars and digital channels. It also has the feature of being one of the 25 game entrepreneurship centers included in the latest reports of .
Cekmekoy Mayor Ahmet Poyraz, who made a welcome speech in the program by saying, "We are happy to undertake such beautiful projects that will support our national technology move in the century of Turkey," said, "At the moment, we have done a serious work on the 100th Anniversary Anthem. We will make the final of this work in the complex under the auspices of our President. We are thinking about how we can pave the way for our youth with these and many similar activities. As a municipality, we try to offer them such opportunities. We have seen that the municipality is not only a routine job, but also that such activities and studies should be done. We have tried to do this kind of work so far by taking the municipality to the top. I think we have achieved this so far. This project will create an environment for many young people to participate in the playground. I would like to thank our esteemed teachers and teams.” said.
The young people who participated in the trainings that have been going on for 20 months, made the presentations of the demos of the games they produced.
Taner Öner, one of the game developers, said, “We are planning to make a strategy-based game based on the Roman Empire. We have a volunteer game development team. We want to start our own game company with them. If we can get enough investments, we want to present games on history and strategy to the taste of young people.”