January 2023

👋 Welcome 👋

Happy New Year. And welcome to all the new subscribers this month - you've picked a good time to join, with more activity than ever before since Covid this month - a bunch of the Showcase opportunities have short deadlines in particular, so check them out.

Please keep sharing this with anyone else that may benefit - the wider it goes, the more opportunities I get made aware of to include.

Thanks.

C .

💲 Funding 💲

[Eng] Creative England New Ideas Fund

Deadline 20th January. Up to £20k for screen based storytelling entrepreneurs and businesses in the English regions outside of London.

[🇪🇺] Games Finance Market

Deadline 30th January.

[🇪🇺] European Media and Immersion Lab

Deadline 31st January. Funding for the projects EUR 250k-500k.

[Scot] Crowdmatch

Deadline 5th February. Up to £10k match funding for creative crowdfunding projects.

[🇬🇧] Ufi VocTech Activate

Deadline 8th February. Up to £60k to help solve vocational learning problems.

[Eng] DCMS Create Growth Fund

Deadline 8th February. Up to £30k grants available if based in one of six specific English regions.

[🇬🇧] Innovate UK Creative Catalyst 2023

Deadline 15th February. Up to £50k for UK small businesses.

[🇪🇺] Creative Europe

Deadline 1st March. €6m available.

Latest Games Jobs Live Report

January Games Jobs Live Report

Tracking a continued drop of vacancies across the UK's games industry, download the summary of the January Games Jobs Live report here.

🏆 Awards 🏆

[🇬🇧] MCV Women in Games 2023

Deadline 18th January

[🌎] The Ivors

Deadline 20th January. Includes Best Original Video Game Score category.

[🌎] Indie Development Awards at Game Connection America

Deadline 20th January

[🇵🇱] Digital Vikings Awards 2023

Deadline 25th January.

[🌎] A MAZE Awards

Deadline 31st January

[🌎] Webby Awards

Deadline 10th February. Relevant categories include Games, Immersive, Apps and Websites.

📅 Events 📅

[🇪🇺] PG Connects London

23-24th January

[🇬🇧] Yorkshire Games Festival

4th-10th February

[🇪🇺] Gamesforum Barcelona

8th-9th February

[🇬🇧] Guildford Games Festival

10th February.

[🌎] D.I.C.E. Summit

21st-23rd February

[🌎] SXSW

10-19th March

[🌎] Game Connection America

20th-21st March

[🌎] GDC

20th-24th March. Pass prices increase on 27th January.

[🌎] PAX East

23rd-26th March

Funding Assistance

📸 Showcase 📸

[🇪🇺] European Game Showcase at GDC 2023

Deadline 12th January.

[🇪🇺] WASD Curios 2023

Deadline 13th January

[🇪🇺] My Friend Machine

Deadline 13th January. Exploring human-machine interaction in games.

[🇬🇧] Now Play This,

Deadline 15th January.

[🌎] Tribeca Games Festival

Deadline 18th January.

[🇬🇧] LGF2023: Open Studios

Deadline 20th January

[🇬🇧] London Games Festival 2023 Official Selection

Deadline 20th January

[🌎] Mini Indie Showcase

Deadline 24th January.

[🌎] Friendship Games Week

Deadline 31st January. Steam sale event for games playable by multiple players on the same PC.

[🇯🇵] BitSummit Kyoto 2023

Deadline 31st January

[🇬🇧] GDC attendance support

Deadline 31st January. Financial support for companies that previously haven't been to GDC.

[🇪🇺] Digital Dragons Arena & Indie Showcase

Deadline 15th March

⏩ Accelerators ⏩

[🌎] Introduction to Game Making with Unity ⋆ Code Coven

Deadline 22nd January

[🇪🇺] SpinLab

Deadline 31st January

[Scot] Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation

Deadline 3rd February

[🌎] Mastered Online bootcamps

Deadline 20th February. Free 16-week technical training if you know anyone looking to get into the industry.

💬 Speaker Calls 💬

[🇪🇺] NarraScope

Deadline 20th January

[🌎] Games For Change

Deadline 2nd February

[🇪🇺] Develop Conference

Deadline 24th February

[🇪🇺] Digital Dragons

Deadline 31st March (earlier call deadlines 15th Jan and 19th Feb)

[🇬🇧] Games Talks Live

April 24th-26th in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow. Talks are just ten minutes, email colin@indiechampions.com if interested.

🔧 Resources 🔧

Art Outsourcers Database

List of art outsourcers, feel free to submit additional suggestions via the link at the bottom of it!