El Presidente (Tropico franchise) receives funding from the German government © Kalypso Media Business Gaming Minds, gameXcite, Paintbucket, and Ubisoft Receive Federal Funding Federal funding for games: Gaming Minds Studios in Gütersloh has received an impressive €1.26 million for the Tropico 7 Season Pass. Meanwhile, Paintbucket in Berlin is getting just over €250,000. Funding is also being provided for games projects from Ubisoft and gameXcite. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Picture: Melker Dahlstrand/Swedish Parliament Business Sweden: Cross-Party Working Group Presents Knowledge Report on Games A working group of the Swedish Parliament's Culture Committee has now presented a nearly 200-page knowledge report on games and board games. Among other things, the authors call for games to be recognized as a cultural sector and for a national strategy for the games industry to be developed. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Business FFF Bayern Funds Six XR Projects With a Total of €300,000 FFF Bayern's extended reality (XR) funding committee met yesterday and recommended six projects for funding totalling €300,000: four productions and two developments. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Boris Zander, founder and CEO of Seal.Games ©Seal Media Products Seal.Games Broadens Its Reach With Its First Steam Release Seal.Games, based in Kiel, has announced Ponchorado for Android, iOS and Steam. This is the company's first game to be released on Steam after 20 years of focusing on browser and mobile games. The game is also intended to mark a creative new direction for the company. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Walid Nakschbandi, Managing Director of zhe Film- and Medienstiftung NRW (Picture by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW) Products NRW Provides €1.67 Million in Funding for 25 Gaming Projects In the first funding decision meeting after the new funding guidelines came into effect, the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW approved a total of 25 projects, including three for serious games and gamification projects. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Collage of games by Unikat Media © Unikat Media Business Unikat Media Receive Federal Funding With almost €150,000, Unikat Media has received funding from the German Federal Government's Games Funding Programme. This is the second grant that the Schwerin studio has received. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Bavaria's Minister for Digital Affairs, Dr Fabian Mehring © Andreas Gebert Business FFF Bavaria Funds Eight Game Projects With a Total of €240,000 The FFF Games Funding Committee met for the third time this year yesterday and decided to recommend eight projects for funding, totalling €240,000. Funding will be provided for one production, two prototype developments and five concept developments. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
shapez 2 © tobspr Games Funding LAB132 and tobspr Games Receive Federal Funding Two more German game studios are receiving federal funding. tobspr Games in Munich has been awarded €320,441 for shapez 2 - Puzzle DLC. LAB132, based in Heidelberg, has been awarded €273,090 for Bor. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
(Archive picture DLR PT) Business Federal Funding: Amount of Funding Can be Increased During Project Term Under certain conditions, the amount of federal funding can be increased even for ongoing game projects. This is stated in the new FAQs on funding. However, tweaking or fixing mistakes you made yourself is not sufficient reasons for this. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The Amusement: Whodunnit from Curvature Games was funded with nearly 60K Euros Products Brussels Approves €7m in Funding for Games and Immersive Projects In this year's round of games funding through the Creative Europe program, 42 projects received a total of almost €7 million in support. Four studios in the GSA region – three from Germany and one from Austria – benefited. However, most of the funds went to Denmark and Spain. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Verena Schmidt, Managing Director of Medienförderung RLP Business Medienförderung RLP Draws Interim Conclusions and Establishes New Jury Structure On December 9, Medienförderung ELP (Rheinland-Pfalz) will decide on the 77 applications submitted in the current round, including ten applications for games. The company has now drawn up an interim conclusion since its foundation and announced a significant change in the jury's work. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
YouTuber Patrick Mayer and his book series Paluten receive FFF production funding. (Patrick Mayer; Leonine/Odeon) Paluten Animated Movie Gets Funding by FFF Bavaria For their animated movie about the Paluten book series, YouTuber Patrick Mayer and production company Odeon Fiction from Munich are getting 300,000 euros from FFF Bayern in the current movie funding round. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
