👋 Welcome 👋
Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Year. And that you're raring to go with a new set of opportunities to take advantage of.
And many thanks to everyone that wishlisted the game we're launching next month ("SEN: Seven Eight Nine"), it's a lovely indie puzzler that we'd love to see do well, so if you haven't already, please consider wishlisting it if you find these newsletters useful.
Thanks.
💲 Funding 💲
[🇬🇧] Innovate UK Smart Grants
Deadline 8th January. Up to £25 million is being invested by Innovate UK in the best game-changing and commercially viable innovative or disruptive ideas. All proposals must be business focused.
[Scot] AI for Good
Deadline 10th January. A £100,000 prize fund to help bring Scotland’s innovative uses of AI for social good to life.
[Surrey/Berks] Immersive Football Experience
Deadline 17th January. £60,000 to create an immersive prototype experience that encourages passengers to celebrate their love of football during the European championship in summer 2020.
[🇪🇺] Games Finance Market registration
Deadline 22nd January. Connecting developers with new investors and business partners. Taking place during the London Games Festival April 1st-2nd 2020.
[GB Midlands] New Creatives Midlands
Deadline 1st February. For ages 16-30 based in the Midlands. Project budgets will range from £10-20k.
[🇪🇺] Creative EU Media Award Funding
Deadline 12th February 2020. The total grant awarded to each project can range from €10,000 to €150,000 and must be 50% match funded.
[🇬🇧] UK Games Fund
Deadline not announced yet, but likely to be February so worth keeping an eye out for meantime.
🏆 Awards 🏆
[🇬🇧] Drum Roses Creative Awards
Deadline 20th February. Celebrates the best work across advertising, digital and design outside the M25.
Funding Assistance
SEN: Seven Eight Nine
SEN is an upcoming minimalist zen puzzle game whose rules are taught with absolutely zero instruction. If you get any value from these newsletters, please just take two seconds to Wishlist it, and/or encourage others to support it too.
📸 Showcase 📸
[ENG] Northern Games Showcase opportunity
Deadline 10th January. For games developers based in the North of England, with a family-friendly game you’d like to test.
[🇪🇺] European Game Showcase at GDC
Deadline 15th January. For 30+ European developers to showcase their newest games to press, publishers and strategic partners. It’s an invite only event aimed to help developers and their showcased project in taking the next steps towards success.
[🌎] Leftfield Collection at EGX Rezzed 2020.
Deadline 17th January. The Leftfield Collection is a space within the event that allows indie developers to exhibit their latest games and game-like projects free of charge. Everything is eligible for inclusion from highly polished commercial work to rough prototypes in their earliest stages
[🌎] CGMood Materials from the World competition
Deadline 21st January. €1k prize open to 3D and CG Artists, CG hobbyists and whoever has experience or want to measure themselves in texture and material creation.
[🌎] Green Stories Writing Competitions
Deadline 3rd February. £500 first place prize. Looking for Interactive Fiction pieces that in some way touch upon ideas around building a sustainable society or showcase green ideas, practices or technologies
⏩ Accelerators ⏩
[🇬🇧] How to Become an Immersive Creator Bootcamp
Deadline 20th January. Fully funded (inc accommodation and travel) two day bootcamp.
💬 Speaker Calls 💬
[🇺🇸] NarraScope
Deadline 17th Jan. NarraScope is a new games conference that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.
💡 Inspiration 💡
💤 Housekeeping 💤
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