If you've got a great concept for a downloadable PlayStation Network title -- one you feel rivals the genius of overweight royalty, tumbling rectangles and pixel-sized pollination -- then your chance to shine is approaching. Sony, in conjunction with Pixel-Lab and Northwest Vision and Media are offering £10,000 grants to companies who have great ideas for PSN games as part of their second annual Get in the Game initiative.
You can prepare your brainchild for adjudication during a three-day "pitching and concept development workshop" from October 14 through 16. If you think you've got a shot at the big leagues, you can submit your concept to Get in the Game's producers in November. Five entrants will receive the grant, which they'll use to polish their ideas into something playable before presenting their projects to Sony in March. If they're not terrible, they might get released, and we might end up writing about them, creating some sort of beautiful gaming journalism circle of life.
[Via GamesIndustry]
Reader Comments (6)
Posted: Aug 12th 2009 7:37AM (Unverified) said
This is actually some pretty sweet news. If only I had some initiative...
Posted: Aug 12th 2009 7:49AM Kyle Nichol said
Though this sounds like a good idea, is £10,000 enough to develop a beta? £1,000 a month per programmer (salaries for professional programmers are almost double that) for three months = £9,000, with £1,000 left. I know this is for existing small/indie developers, but £10,000 isn't that much compared to how the industry works.
Posted: Aug 12th 2009 8:08AM Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar said
It's not for HUGE COMPANIES. It's for indie devs. They probably wish they could earn a thousand a month... Also, it's not funding they're products. It's helping them fund them.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 8:37AM SheppyReturns said
For that money, I could take a break from from work and work fulltime on my game art assets. That way I'd still be working the 60 hours a week I am now, just a 200% increase in time spent on my own game.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 10:00AM NeoHumpty said
I would like to see an indy dev make up a good learning game for children. When you look at the average age of a ps3 owner, the odds are good that many of them have children and it would sell. It's a genre that Sony hasn't touched, and if pitched right, they would be sold on it pretty easily. Too bad I know nothing about programing.
Posted: Aug 12th 2009 10:17AM U U D D L R L R B A SELECT START said
I just lost the game.
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