Tim Sweeney, CEO Epic Games © Screenshot/Stream Unreal Fest 2024 Development Epic Games Rewards Simultaneous and Exclusive Releases It was probably the most important announcement at the Unreal Fest 2024 keynote: Tim Sweeny announced the launch of the Launch Everwhere with Epic programme at the turn of the year. Subject to certain conditions, it provides for lower fees for Unreal Engine games. Specifically, the licence fee will be By Team GamesMarket • 1 min read
Jukka Saarelainen, Co-founder and CTO at couchplay © LG Electroinics Development German Developer Wins LG's webOS.TV-Hackathon As part of LG webOS, LG Electronics has also announced the winners of this year's webOS TV hackathon. A total of $230,000 in prize money will go to three European studios. Couchplay from Munich came in first. As the top-ranked company, Couchplay received prize money of By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Team17 Digital Development FusionPlay Realises Viva La Dirt League Game for Team17 Digital FusionPlay is part of an unusual collaboration. The Leipzig studio is working together with the New Zealand YouTube channel and studio Viva La Dirt League on a game for Team17 Digital. The web video production company Viva La Dirt League (VLDL), founded by Rowan Bettjeman, Alan Morrison, and Adam King, By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
REDxBLUE is one of the funded companies. There is currently no official image material available for the funded projects. © RotXBlau Development MDM Funds Two Games and an XR Production At its third meeting for 2024, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung funding committee also considered two games and an XR production. A total of 180,000 Euros will be divided equally among the projects from Leipzig and Dresden. This means that the current round of funding was, at least in the new By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Kalunga, the serial format Mesut Özil: Zu Gast bei Freunden, Flick Shot Rogues © MBB Development Medienboard Funds 13 Games and XR Titles With A Million Euros The current funding round of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg included 1,6 million euros, more than a million of it for games and XR titles. Grand profiteers are Realities.io with 250,000 euros for Puzzling Places 2D and Aldamami Games with 160,000 euros for Bloodletter. The Medienboard Berlin- By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Spoonful Games Development Spoonful Games Announces Next Fest Demo for Bauhaus Bonk Spoonful Games had revealed their first commercial game release at Gronkh's German Indie Showcase during gamescom. Bauhaus Bonk will release in spring 2025. After much praise, the title from Cologne will get a demo in the coming Steam Next Fest. Update from 27 September 2024 After Spoonful Games By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Digital Minister Fabian Mehring has initiated the Funding Finder. © Andreas Gebert Development Funding Finder: Why Games Funding Isn’t in the New Bavarian Search Engine – Yet The new Funding Finder search engine of the Bavarian Digital Ministry doesn't index game funding. At least not yet: According to a Ministry answer to a GamesMarkt query, later updates will incorporate Bavaria's games funding programmes as well. Today, the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© ExP Development ExP Talks Bring VFX Artists to Munich On the next event from ExP – Expert Talks and Pretzels, Sophie Kordes from KingArt games and Florian Smolka from Maschinen-Mensch are sharing their knowledge. The theme of the event on 8 October at the Medien.Bayern offices: VFX. With the second round of their new event series ExP – Expert By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Initial blockout in the level tool. The tool can transform the blockout into several styles, like those below. © Pixel Maniacs Development G+ In Development: Level Tools for Pixel Maniac's ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Subotron Campus Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2024 Nominates Five Student Team Finalists Five student teams have been selected to compete in the Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2024. They will now receive a mentoring by Rami Ismail, before they pitch their games in front of a live international jury on 22 November. The finalists of the Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2024 have been By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The marketplace Fab.com is scheduled to launch in mid-October. © Screenshop Unreal Engine Blog Development Epic Games Launches Fab Marketplace in Mid-October At GDC 2023, Epic Games announced that it would be merging all of its asset stores under one brand: Fab. A year ago, the launch of Fab was delayed. Now, the marketplace is scheduled to launch in mid-October. It was an ambitious project that was supposed to make it By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© BusinessWire Development Unity Kills The Runtime Fee In a blog post, Unity CEO Matt Bromberg announces that the controversial runtime fee will finally be scrapped. Exactly one year after its launch, the question remains whether Unity will ever fully regain the trust of developers. On 12 September 2023, Unity announced the end of the Unity Plus subscription By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
