Universal Foundry offers cloud infrastructure grants for indie game teams

Universal Foundry, a startup offering cloud infrastructure to Unreal Engine 5 game developers, has announced a new Universal Foundry Compute Grant for small game devs. Targeting solo and and small game teams, the aim is to award select teams with gratis infrastructure accelerate their project’s development, said Albert Reed, CEO of Universal Foundry, in an interview with GamesBeat. The grant will award select teams with free Universal Foundry Horde continuous integration (CI) cloud infrastructure to support their game’s launch with applications now open through May 30, 2025 on the Universal Foundry website. “Having previously founded a game studio, I understand first-hand how important working with great tools is for a game’s timely launch and for team retention,” said Reed. “Epic has provided developers with amazing cloud-based tools including Horde but it’s up to teams to deploy and operate these tools themselves. We built Universal Foundry to help teams work more efficiently – ... Read full article.