Today, on September 22, Nevosoft announced the start of the second competition-the championship of game projects of independent teams within the framework of the conference on the development and promotion of White Nights games.
The results of the competition will be announced on October 14, at the Indie Game Cup awards ceremony.
Only projects developed by indie studios (teams of up to 30 people) can take part in the competition.
To participate, the studio must either participate in the developer exhibition, also held as part of White Nights Moscow 2015, or buy at least one ticket to the conference.
The game that the developer submits for participation in the Indie Game Cup must, at a minimum, reach the alpha version (it is assumed that the game includes the full range of functionality, but may suffer from a partial lack of content and the presence of errors).
If a developer submits a finished game to the competition, then its official release should have taken place no earlier than January 2015.
The platform can be any.
You must submit an application by September 30. You can submit it here.
The competition will be held, as last time, in two stages.
As part of the first stage, the editorial board App2Top.ru he will choose 10-15 best projects.
During the second stage, the jury of the contest will vote on the winners in four categories: best art, best game design, best story and best game.
The jury members will be: Philipp Karstaedt from GREE, Tatiana Timoshenko from G5 Ent., Andrey Ivashchentsev from Microsoft, Valentin Merzlikin from Creative Mobile, Pavel Ryakkonen from Nevosoft, Alexander Semenov from App2top.ru , Vic Boaron from TabTale, David Mohr from Gamevil and Andre Pe (Andre Pais) from MiniClip.
Google will award a special prize – the Nexus Player set-top box.
Recall that the winners of the last Indie Game Cup were Lost Socks Naughty Brothers, Perils of Man and Karma. Incarnation 1.