💲 Funding 💲
[Scot] Biome Collective Grant for Digital Creatives
Deadline 8th January. £500 grant aimed at supporting Scotland-based digital creatives from under-represented or marginalised backgrounds.
[🇬🇧] Innovate UK Innovation continuity loans
Deadline 13th January. Up to £210 million in loans to SMEs that have a challenge in continuing, completing or following on an innovation project
[Greater London] StoryFutures Seed Funding R&D Call
Deadline 20th January. £8k to support R&D in one of the following areas: Health and Wellbeing, Marketing and Visitor Experience, Sustainability, Game Engines.
[🇬🇧] Innovate UK Smart Grants
Deadline 20th January. Project costs must be between £25,000 and £2 million. Up to 70% of project costs can be covered, depending on organisation size.
[🇨🇦] BIPOC Creator Program
Deadline 24th January. Up to $10k CAD to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and Person of Colour) Canadian game creators.
[🌎] Pixel Mill Platform 2021
Deadline 29th January. For studios in or relocating to Northern Ireland. Up to £60k, 12 Months office space and conference attendance / mentoring.
[🇬🇧] Future by Design environmental call
Deadline 31st January. Up to £25k for proposals that engage 18-29 year olds on climate change issues.
[🇬🇧] StoryFutures Kickstart
Deadline 4th February. Grants of up to £10k open to any AR, VR, MR or immersive audio project.
[Scot] Scottish Edge
Deadline 10th February. Individual awards of up to £100k for £1m prizes awarded in total.
[🇬🇧] VocTech Seed 2021
Deadline 11th February. Grants between £15,000 and £50,000 for early stage projects that use digital tech in vocational learning.
[🌎] Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs
Deadline 31st March. 5 winners share £60k prize fund and £100k worth of business support.
🏆 Awards 🏆
📅 Events 📅
Funding Assistance
Games Jobs Live partner opportunities
Want to help your local games community with a new format in games recruitment? Want to help more people get their dream job in the games industry? And want to earn whilst doing so?! Get in touch; colin@gamesjobs.live
📸 Showcase 📸
[🌎] Sheffield Doc/Fest
Deadline 15th January. Their Arts Programme is a space for experimentation, exploring narrative through research... including , virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, interactive documentary, AI, and games.
⏩ Accelerators ⏩
[🌎] Game Drive Demo Day
Deadline 9th January. An accelerator program for mobile game developers from MY.GAMES and Google.
💬 Speaker Calls 💬
[🌎] Game Dev London Global Game Jam
Deadline 15th January. Calls for folks to do a talk, workshop, or panel.
[🌎] DevDays - Software Development Conference
Deadline end Feb. Hybrid conference held both online and in Vilnius, Lithuania June 8th-10th.
💡 Inspiration 💡
EGD Newsletter
Finnish games entrepreneur Joakim Achrén produces his weekly 'Elite Games Developers' newsletter covering "gaming and startups, packed with insights into fundraising, metrics, cap tables, and pieces of gaming news that actually mattered. "
💤 Housekeeping 💤
- Please forward this to anyone else you think may appreciate it, and they can subscribe here
- If you know of any funding/award/speaker call that should be included in the future, please email me at colin@indiechampions.com
- I also have a weekly newsletter that simply lists the top six stories from the games industry each week, subscribe here
- And if you're interested in recruitment I also run Games Jobs Live, get in touch if you'd like to see one run in your local area!