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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.
📅 Events 📅
Funding Assistance
devcom: 22-24 August in Cologne, Germany
devcom is the official game developer conference of gamescom. Learn from +120 speakers, join workshops and masterclasses, meet with global games industry representatives, and check out 60+ indie projects. Visit www.devcom.global and save up to 24% on your ticket!
📸 Showcase 📸
🔧 Resources 🔧
[🌎] Q1 2020 edition of Global Games Industry Guide
260 pages of #GameDev goodness spread across 44 categories, listing Publishers, Industry Bodies, Networks, Funding Opportunities and more.
[🇬🇧] Ukiepedia
A shared industry resource collating facts, stats and other useful information about the UK and global games industry.
[🇬🇧] Tech Nation's Coronavirus info hub
Lists UK Government business support and a number of useful community resources for dealing with Covid and remote working generally.
💡 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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