👋 Welcome 👋
I love hearing when a studio wins something after finding out about it in this newsletter, and there's more opportunities listed this month than ever before, so do let me know about any successful applications to any of these!
And selfishly, one last push for the lovely indie puzzler, "SEN: Seven Eight Nine", that we're publishing this Thursday 6th Feb! It'll be out on Steam, Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android. Please considering wishlisting / tweeting etc about it if you find these newsletters useful.
Thanks.
💲 Funding 💲
[🇬🇧] UK Games Fund Round 6
Deadline 3rd February. Support package worth £10k to work on pitching skills, and a playable demo, with which successful teams can pitch for an additional grant of up to £20k.
[Dundee] Venture 2020; £31k New Business Competition
Deadline 4th February. For all University of Dundee Students, Staff and Recent Graduates across 6 prize fund categories.
[🌎] Games Finance Market London
Deadline 7th February. Flagship application-only B2B market during London Games Festival, connecting 60 games studios with 60 global games investors.
[🌎] Northern Ireland Screen Platform £60k funding accelerator
Deadline 12th February. Companies have to be in, or relocate to, Northern Ireland.
[🇪🇺] Creative EU Media Award Funding
Deadline 12th February. The total grant awarded to each project can range from €10,000 to €150,000 and must be 50% match funded.
[🌎] VocTech Seed | Ufi Charitable Trust
Deadline 13th February. VocTech Seed provides £15 - £50K in funding for up to 12 months. Projects are at an early stage, solving clearly identifiable vocational learning problems.
[🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇦🇷] AMPLIFY DAI residencies for women-identified digital artists and curators
Deadline 16th February. Looking for proposals that explore new aesthetic directions in digital creation. Participating artists from UK / Canada / Argentina can receive an artist fee, travel and accommodation.
[🌎] The Label's 2020 Indie Showdown
Deadline 17th February. $17k in prizes, open to unreleased and unsigned mobile games.
[🌎] Parallel18 $40k accelerator
Deadline 17th February. If successful you're based in the sunny Caribbean island of Puerto Rico for five months though..... nightmare.... ;)
[🇬🇧] DBACE £50k fund
Deadline 31st March. 5 winners share £50k prize fund and £100k worth of business support. The programme aims to enable and celebrate creative entrepreneurship for social good led by 18-30-year olds in the UK today.
[🇬🇧] Innovate UK Smart Grants
Deadline 22nd April. £25m fund for innovative and/or disruptive and ambitious idea leading to new products, processes or services.
🏆 Awards 🏆
[🇺🇸] MomoCon 2020 Indie Game Awards
Deadline 20th February. Finalists get a free both at MomoCon in Atlanta USA on May 21-24 and compete for a $1k prize.
[🇬🇧] Drum Roses Creative Awards
Deadline 20th February. Celebrates the best work across advertising, digital and design outside the M25.
[🇪🇺] The Europas 2020
Deadline 25th March. No games categories, but if you've ever described your company as "<something> Tech" then there's probably an award for you here.
[🌎] Game Connection Asia 2020 Development Awards
Deadline 27th March. Nominees required to travel to Xi’An, China, on June 4-5.
[🌎] Imagination Gaming Family & Education Game Awards
Deadline 1st April. Focussed on games for educational and social organisations and supporting families, children and learning.
[🌎] EY Entrepreneur Of The Year
No deadline. "A unique global program that recognizes entrepreneurial achievement among individuals".
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 📸
[🌎] GDC Day of the Devs 2020
Deadline ASAP. Opportunity for game to be on the #DayoftheDevs stand at GDC.
[🇪🇺] Now Play This 2020
Deadline 3rd February. A chance for playful makers and creators to show their work as part of London Games Festival on April 3-5.
[🇬🇧] Digital Catapult Discover Haptics showcase
Deadline 5th February. Looking for immersive startups with innovative solutions or content creators working with tactile feedback technology that uses the sense of touch.
[🌎] IndieCade Showcase @ E3
Deadline 15th February. Looking for a wide spectrum of games and experiences — regardless of platform, style, experience, or background, both work-in-progress and completed projects.
[🌎] Track and Build
Deadline 17th February. Jägermeister giving indie developers the chance to have their game soundtrack produced by award-winning music duo Koven.
[🇪🇺] Bonus Stage London Indie Games Showcase
Deadline 23rd February. Event takes place on Sunday 29th March.
[Cornwall] Cornish Games at Develop 2020
Cornish Games are looking for expressions of interest from Cornish studios who wish to have a free demo space at Develop:Conference in Brighton 14 - 16 July.
⏩ Accelerators ⏩
[🇬🇧] Google for Startups Immersion
Deadline 7th February. A 12-week program designed to bring the best of Google and the London ecosystem to 10 startups from across the UK.
[Manchester] Ideate Mentoring
Deadline 28 February. Creative England are looking to support Greater Manchester-based creative businesses looking to explore the use of immersive technology in their work.
💬 Speaker Calls 💬
[🌎] GamesForum Barcelona
Deadline 14th February. Email info@globalmgf.com with your name, job title and company, session title, 500 words talk synopsis, who target audience is, and what they'll learn.
[🌎] DevDays Europe 2020 Software Development Conference
Deadline 17th February. In Lithuania May 5-7. Wider software development rather than just games, but "Travel and accommodation expenses are reimbursed upon request".
[🌎] Game Connection Asia 2020
Deadline 28th February. Talks encouraged in the following areas: Publishing / Distribution / Acquisition / M&A, QA and/or Localization, User acquisition, advertising, monetisation, External Development & Outsourcing, Game Design and Production.
[🌎] Meet the Scottish GameDev Community
Come to Scotland March 2nd-4th and meet pretty much every Scottish games development company in one short trip. Previous attendees include Apple, Sega, Universal, the Oliver Twins, nVidia, Curve, Merge etc. If interested, email colin@indiechampions.com
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