Tue 20 / 10 / 15
Government Announces £4 Million Video Games Prototype Fund
The Video Games Prototype Fund is intended to support UK video games development. Aimed at helping smaller companies get concepts off the drawing board and into production, the Fund will provide additional support to the video games sector, helping to maximise the contribution to economic growth this sector is already delivering.
Over the four years from 2015 to 2019, the Fund will offer grants to support video games projects, as well as creating jobs, nurturing talent and furthering the growth of games clusters all around the UK.
The programme has an overall budget of £4 million.
Over its lifetime, the Fund will offer:
- Grants of up to £25,000 to help new and young games development businesses create working prototype games.
- Grants of up to £50,000 for a limited number of projects to take their ideas beyond the prototype phase.
- Talent development initiatives - this will include competitions for students and graduate teams to create and showcase new games, mentoring for businesses and individuals, and opportunities for talented individuals to work on games prototype projects.
New and young small companies in the UK’s video games industry will be eligible to apply.
The Fund will be administered from offices in Dundee and the Digital Catapult.
Full details will be announced when the sponsor opens its first call for applications in due course.
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