Helge Jürgens, MD of the New Media Funding, will always be part of the new media committee. © MBB Business New MBB Funding System is Committee Based The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has announced its new funding system for movies and games. From now on, funding decisions will be held by a rotating committee. For games, experts on the committee include Daniel Budiman, Thomas Bedenk, Lena Gieseke, Binh Minh Herbst and more industry veterans from the capital region. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Oliver Miescher (left) will head the programme, Stefan Schmidlin joins the foundation's board of trustees. © Miescher; Schmidlin Business Zurich Movie Foundation Starts Games Funding 4.5 million Francs over the next three years: In a timed experiment, the Swiss canton Zurich is now funding games and XR projects in the categories Prototype and Production through Zürcher Filmstiftung. For the first time ever, the Zurich Movie Foundation (Zürcher Filmstiftung) has started a games funding programme. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The cinema at the Filmforum NRW was the location of Indie Reveal. © Indie Hub Business Indie Reveal Connects NRW and Quebec During gamescom In an initial cooperation, Quebec and NRW met up at the first Indie Reveal during gamescom to show indie games in a cinema before publishers. The event was co-organised by NRW and Quebec funding organisations as well as Indie Hub and Indie Asylum. On the occasion of gamescom in By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
So far, the funding commitments currently being published are still based on applications submitted before Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär took over responsibility for games funding. However, her new call for proposals, which has been open for new submissions since the beginning of August, will soon lead to a massive increase in commitments. © Bundesregierung/Steffen Kugler Business Funding Approvals for WastedStudios and King Art The federal government has approved funding of €350,000 for the two studios King Art and WastedStudios. This brings the number of approvals this year to 16. The new entries became visible after a change apparently meant that no current funding projects from the games sector were available for several By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Nordmedia © Nordmedia Business Nordmedia Funds Four Games With Almost €280,000 Nordmedia will provide almost €280,000 in funding for four games. Digital Cauldron from Marklohe and 1000 Orks from Osnabrück will receive the two largest grants. In the second round of funding for 2025, the nordmedia funding committee awarded a total of €2,823,802.00 in grants to 43 By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Group photo of the Press Start scholarship recipients at the kick-off meeting © Klara Yoon Business First Press Start Games Playable at gamescom Seventeen Press Start Scholarship (start-up grant) recipients will be showcasing their games at gamescom. These can be found at the Press Start stand in the Indie Arena Booth, the Home of Indies, and the Business Area. Eight games developed by recipients of the Press Start Scholarship can be played By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Kaweh Mansoori, Hesse Economy Minister, is patron of the funding programme. © Paul Schneider / Hessische Staatskanzlei Business Hessen Serious Game Funds 7 Titles with 300,000 Euros Seven titles, among them five serious games, receive funding from Germany's federal state Hesse. Partly decided by Jan Klose of Artex and Franziska Lehnert of ZeniMax, the lucky winners are Pixelsplit, CosaLux, Omeelia, Eduard Dobermann, Buntspecht & Rabe, Sphery Exerworld and Raumkapsel Schmidt. Hesse is funding seven games By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© MFG Business Baden-Württemberg: New Funding Guidelines in Effect, Submissions Possible Following approval by the EU, the new and revised funding guidelines for games in Baden-Württemberg are now in effect. Applications can be submitted. The next deadline is 31 August. After a break, funding for games in Baden-Württemberg has resumed. MFG Baden-Württemberg had revised and further developed the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Margarete Schneider, Project Manager at Gamecity Hamburg © Oliver Reetz Business Games Lift 2025 Incubator Supports Five Developer Teams Five teams convinced the Games Lift Award Committee of the potential of their game projects. A total of 43 teams and individual developers applied to take part in the Games Lift Incubator, which is more than twice the number of applicants in previous years. On 8 September, the Games Lift By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Robin Rottmann, Team Lead Games/Bavaria / Dr. Fabian Mehring, Bavarian Minister of State for Digital Affairs and patron of the programme. © Alexander Hartung, Games Bavaria / Andreas Gebert Business Level Up Accelerator Kicks Off Second Round With Nine Game Teams Following the success of its launch last year, the Level Up funding programme - the Games/Bavaria Accelerator under the patronage of Digital Minister Dr Fabian Mehring - is entering its next round. Nine developer teams and solo developers from across Bavaria have been selected for the second edition. The Level Up By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
From left to right: Prof. Dr. Sebastian von Mammen, Chair of Games Engineering at the University of Würzburg; Prof. Dr. Anja Schlömerkemper, Vice President of the University of Würzburg; Prof. Dr. Marc Erich Latoschik, Head of the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction; Dr. Fabian Mehring, Bavarian State Minister for Digital Affairs; Felix Freiherr von Zobel, Member of the Freie Wähler; Prof. Dr. Jörn Hurtienne, Head of the Chair of Psychological Ergonomics © XR Hub Bavaria Campus Additional Funds: XR Hub Würzburg's Funding Breaches 2.5 Million Euros With an additional funding of 760,000 euros, the Bavarian Digital Ministry under Fabian Mehring has pushed the public budget for XR Hub Würzburg to 2.5 million euros until 2026. The newest cheque was presented at University of Würzburg's Summer Expo. At yesterday’s Summer Expo at By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The next game in Chimera Entertainment's Songs of Silence game world has received prototype funding. © Chimera Entertainment Business FFF Bayern Funds 13 Games With Almost a Million Euros The next game in the Songs of Silence world by Chimera, the successor to EcoGnomix and more: FilmFernsehFonds Bayern has released their current funding round decisions, allocating money to two productions, five prototypes and six concepts. The allocation committee for FFF games funding met yesterday and decided to recommend 13 By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
