April 2020

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💲 Funding 💲

[🇬🇧] New technology challenge to support people who are isolating

Deadline 1st April 12pm. £25k per company available for digital ways to support people who need help during COVID-19 outbreak.

[🇬🇧] Tranzfuser

Deadline 15th April. £5,000 and chance to pitch for further £20,000 grant funding from the UK Games Fund. For teams of UK students who will graduate from June 2018 to Sept 2020.

[🌎] Just Add Sugar

Deadline 17th April. Sugar helping indie studios by slashing finance rates to give indies early access to their digital store revenues.

[🇬🇧] Innovate UK Smart Grants

Deadline 22nd April. £25m fund for innovative and/or disruptive and ambitious idea leading to new products, processes or services.

[🇬🇧] CreativeXR 2020

Deadline 17th May. Up to £20k and an array of other support to prototype VR/AR content.

[🌎] Lumen Prize • Celebrating the best art created with technology

Deadline 8th May. Prize fund of $11,500 across categories of Still, Moving Image, XR, 3D/Interactive and Artificial Intelligence. Finalists are also eligible for the People’s Choice Award and the Lumen Gold award.

[🌎] Now: Guidelines | Ufi Charitable Trust

Deadline 6th April. Up to £25k to accelerate the use of tools to enable those in work or training to continue to engage with their vocational learning programmes during this period of travel disruption.

🏆 Awards 🏆

[🌎] DevGAMM Awards

Deadline 16th April. Categories include Excellence in Visual Art / Game Design / Narrative / Audio / Best Indie Game / Best Mobile Game / Best Desktop Game / Best Hyper Casual Game.

[🇬🇧] Game Dev Heroes 2020

Deadline 28th April.

[🇪🇺] Develop:Star Awards 2020

Deadline 24th July.

📅 Online Events 📅

[🌎] BAFTA Games Awards Watch Party

Thursday 2nd April from 7.15pm

[🌎] gamedev.world GDC Relief Fundraiser

Until 3rd April.

[🌎] Pocket Gamer Connects

6-10th April

[🌎] Global Games Pitch For Developers

16th & 17th April.

[🌎] White Nights Hub

23rd April.

[🌎] LudoNarraCon

24-27th April.

[🌎] GamesBeat Summit 2020

28th & 29th April. Free livestream pass.

[🌎] IGDA Game Development Crisis Conference & Webinar Series

May 14th

[🌎] DevGAMM Online 2020

14th & 15th May.

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📸 Showcase 📸

[🌎] United Nations call out to creatives to help stop the spread of COVID-19

Deadline 9th April.

💬 Speaker Calls 💬

[🌎] Games Talk Radio (www.gamestalkradio.com) is planned to be a live radio station for the games industry, and is looking for DJ's to run their own shows. Email [info@analogzine.co.uk] (mailto:info@analogzine.co.uk)

[🌎] Speaker call for devcom

Deadline 31st May. Event runs 22-24 August in Cologne, Germany

💡 Inspiration 💡

How to Pitch an Indie Game; Fights in Tight Spaces

James from Ground Shatter and Paul from Mode 7 talk about how Fights in Tight Spaces was signed.

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