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Funding Opportunities for Indie Game Developers - December 2018

Details of opportunities for indie developers - particularly funding opportunities, award entry dates, and conference speaker calls.

Colin Macdonald, Blogger

December 13, 2018

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Every month there are countless opportunities for indie game developers that aren't taken advantage of. To hopefully change that, here's a list of the opportunities available at time of writing that developers could consider applying for:

Funding

[Global] Magic Leap Independent Creator Program offering grants up to $500k - plus free hardware :)

[Global] Games Finance Market

  • Deadline 8 February. Flagship application-only B2B market during London Games Festival, connecting 60 games studios with 60 global games investors.

[Europe] Creative Europe funding €150k funding for development of narrative games

[Global] BitTorrent owner Tron opens $100 million fund for blockchain games

 

Awards
 

[Global] Now Place This showcase

  • Deadline 19th December. A festival of experimental game design as part of London Games Festival, particularly interested in games and activities that relate to the theme of community. 

[Global] International Mobile Gaming Awards

Global] A MAZE. Berlin 2019 awards


Inspiration
 
Handy resource of trailer specs for different consoles/platform holders.

 

Hope this is useful! If you know of any funding/award/speaker call that should be included in the future, please email me at [email protected], and if you'd like to subscribe to receive these monthly as they're collated, you can do so https://gamesopportunities.curated.co/

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