👋 Welcome 👋
Happy New Year! Hopefully you find this monthly roundup of opportunities for your studio useful. They obviously take effort to pull together every month because not all of the organisations promote their opportunities particularly well :( But as the reach of this newsletter increases, some are starting to alert me directly.
So... to help reduce the workload, and increase the opportunities I get alerted to, could I ask you to forward this email to someone else that might find it useful - perhaps another developer you work with, a local studio, or an indie dev you admire - the more of an audience this gets, the more opportunities it'll attract to help everyone :)
Many thanks.
💲 Funding 💲
[🌎] $2m creator fund for voxel artists for blockchain platform Sandbox
Limited to first 1,000 artists approved.
[🇬🇧] UK-China Creative Industries Partnership Development Grants
Deadline 17th January. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has been successful in securing £5m, plus co-funding from Chinese partners, for a major new international programme seeking to develop research-industry partnerships between the UK and China in the creative industries.
[🌎] Games Finance Market
Deadline 8th February. Flagship application-only B2B market during London Games Festival, connecting 60 games studios with 60 global games investors.
[🇪🇺] Creative Europe funding €150k funding for development of narrative games
Deadline 27th February. Awards of up to €150,000 and must be 50% match funded. For the development of narrative video games from concept to playable prototype.
🏆 Awards 🏆
[ENG] Northern Games Showcase opportunity
Deadline 11th January. For games developers based in the North of England, with a family-friendly game you’d like to test.
[🌎] Indigo Awards "Recognising the best in Digital Design"
Deadline 31st January. Games categories include Animation, Character Design, Illustration, Mobile Games, Online Games, PC Games, Sound Design & Use of Music for Games, and UX, Interface & Navigation for Games
[🇬🇧] Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Video Game Score
Deadline 7th February. Works must have a British or Irish writing contribution of at least 33.3% and have been commercially released in the UK during 2018. More details at http://theivors.com/the-64th-ivor-novello-awards-opens-for-entries/
[🌎] Jägermeister launches video game soundtrack competition for indie studios
Deadline 15th February.
[🇬🇧] Drum Roses Creative Awards
Deadline 20th February. The Drum Roses Creative Awards celebrate the best UK creative work outside the M25, striving to find the hidden gems in advertising, design and digital.
[🇬🇧] Ernst&Young UK Entrepreneur Of The Year
Deadline February. The business must be based, or have its chief operations, in the UK, and have been incorporated for two years as of 1 January 2019.
💬 Speaker Calls 💬
💡 Inspiration 💡
💤 Housekeeping 💤
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