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Indies are a crucial part of the games industry.

Over the past decade, we’ve had the privilege to support some of the UK and Europe’s leading indie developers, publishers, UGC teams and tech creators. But we want to do more.

That’s why we’ve created Wig-Indies, an initiative all about our long-running commitment to supporting the incredible new studios of tomorrow. This includes developers, publishers, UGC creators, tech businesses and more.

What do we offer indies?

1. Free legal drop-in

Each week we’re offering a minimum of 6 x 30 mins drop-in / consultation sessions. Completely free, no strings attached. You can book a slot here.

2. Flexible fee models

We offer specialist indie packages for the core legal documents you’ll need to start a games studio (contractor agreements, NDAs etc) and fixed fees wherever possible to give you transparency and control over legal costs.

3. Legal planning

We help you plan ahead, avoid common pitfalls, and prioritise and tackle those that do come up in a way that makes sense for indies.

4. Network

Access to our expansive network of other industry experts (game scouts, publishers, angels, investors etc) and service providers (accountants, insurers, auditors etc).

5. No jargon

We live the industry, and love and actually play games. So you don’t have to explain to us what MOBAs, battlepasses and hard currencies are or what peer-to-peer means.

This is just the start. We plan to grow our offering and we’d love to hear your ideas on what other support / resources you'd find useful.

What do we regularly help indies with?

Commercial Agreements

  • Development, publishing, funding and distribution
  • Third party content licensing (e.g. IP, games engines, software licensing)
  • Work for hire, outsourcing and porting
  • Other exploitation (e.g. merchandising, trans-media)
  • Music commissioning and licensing
  • Esports activations (e.g. tournament structures, rules, player agreement etc)
  • Contract disputes

Consumer, Advertising & Online safety

  • Consumer documents (e.g. EULA, fan content, UGC and community guidelines)
  • Online safety (e.g. user and child protection, age ratings)
  • Monetisation regulation (e.g. loot boxes, NFTs, F2P, platform compliance)
  • Advertising / marketing regulation
  • Game feature gambling risk analysis
 Intellectual Property

  • Studio / game name selection (e.g. pre-filing searches)
  • IP filings (e.g. trade marks, copyright, designs, patents)
  • Content review (e.g. using real-world IP in-game)
  • IP disputes (e.g. name infringement, clones)

Data

  • Privacy and cookie policies
  • Personal data mapping and risk assessments
  • Staff training
  • Managing user access requests

Employment / Immigration

  • Contractor / employment agreement templates
  • Remote hiring
  • Employment policies (e.g. mat/pat, personal projects)
  • Company sponsorship / staff visas
 Corporate

  • Raising investment and getting “investment ready”
  • Company and IP purchases / sales
  • Shareholder’s agreements and company articles
  • Founder and director agreements
  • Employee incentive schemes

Property & Tax

  • Office leases
  • Commercial property purchases and fit outs
  • Tax relief claims and deal structuring

What some of our indie clients say

Smart, professional and easy to work with. Wiggin fulfils all our needs as an independent games studio - swiftly answering all our tricky questions, and in the process helping us with all the stupid ones too.
Working with lawyers can often be time-consuming, expensive and tedious. Wiggin are none of those things - we love working with the team there and are very grateful for their continued, excellent work.
Wiggin has been a great legal resource, but also a great business development resource! As first time business owners, we often identify a problem, but don't know the best way to fix it.
We’ve worked with Wiggin on several topics over the past few years and appreciate their practical approach and the simplified explanations of complex subjects, helping us to focus on our core business.