Serious About Games - Competition
Hi All,
I'm excited to announce the launch of the Serious About Games Competition!
Are you serious about games? Interested in the use of games to bring about social impact and innovation? We’re launching South Africa’s biggest serious game competition to engage communities in reimagining their spaces for economic prosperity.
THE CHALLENGE
Apartheid urban planning has led to a highly split society and huge socio-economic challenges across the Western Cape. Let’s create a game that allows poor communities to think innovatively and reimagine their neighbourhoods for economic growth.
Serious About Games is challenging all current or aspiring game developers, digital creatives and designers to use a user-centred design approach to conceptualise a game that addresses the above challenge. The winning team will receive R1 000 000 (yes R1 Million!) to develop the game in 2017.
The Launch Event
When: 16 November, 6.30pm
Where: Bandwidth Barn, 3rd Floor, Block B, Woodstock Exchange
Who should come? All game developers, digital creatives, design thinkers, urban/ civic planning organisations – anyone who is interested in game development or civic planning.
What: We’ll be introducing the collaboration, the game brief, and the competition schedule – all over a drink and a snack.
Click attending on the Facebook event, or follow us on Twitter.
Get your free ticket.
This competition is led by the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) in collaboration with Interactive Entertainment South Africa (IESA), 67Games, the Cape Craft and Design Institute (CCDI), and supported by the Western Cape Government’s Department of Economic Development and Tourism.
Serious About Games will be hosting a series of workshops and gaming popup events over the next few months, to equip teams with knowledge on serious games, relevant business acumen and allow them to engage with their audience.
Come along on the 16th to find out more!
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Update, the submission deadline was on Monday, and we have had 17 Submissions in total, which is fantastic for a first time running and the niche nature of the competition. All the entries look fairly solid and there is potential for some excellent games to come from this!
Thank you to everyone from the community that entered, and good luck!
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We will be announcing the winner tomorrow at an event at the Bandwidth Barn! I hope that I will be seeing a lot of you there. This is a really exciting point for the game dev community. The backers of the competition seem to be pleased with results of the competition, and I will definitely be looking to make this an regular event!
You can get your tickets online here: https://www.quicket.co.za/events/27351-the-final-sas-biggest-serious-games-competition/#/
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Congratulations to @Shanemarks and Renderheads on winning the R1million prize for the Serious About Games Competition!
I'm excited to announce the launch of the Serious About Games Competition!
Are you serious about games? Interested in the use of games to bring about social impact and innovation? We’re launching South Africa’s biggest serious game competition to engage communities in reimagining their spaces for economic prosperity.
THE CHALLENGE
Apartheid urban planning has led to a highly split society and huge socio-economic challenges across the Western Cape. Let’s create a game that allows poor communities to think innovatively and reimagine their neighbourhoods for economic growth.
Serious About Games is challenging all current or aspiring game developers, digital creatives and designers to use a user-centred design approach to conceptualise a game that addresses the above challenge. The winning team will receive R1 000 000 (yes R1 Million!) to develop the game in 2017.
The Launch Event
When: 16 November, 6.30pm
Where: Bandwidth Barn, 3rd Floor, Block B, Woodstock Exchange
Who should come? All game developers, digital creatives, design thinkers, urban/ civic planning organisations – anyone who is interested in game development or civic planning.
What: We’ll be introducing the collaboration, the game brief, and the competition schedule – all over a drink and a snack.
Click attending on the Facebook event, or follow us on Twitter.
Get your free ticket.
This competition is led by the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) in collaboration with Interactive Entertainment South Africa (IESA), 67Games, the Cape Craft and Design Institute (CCDI), and supported by the Western Cape Government’s Department of Economic Development and Tourism.
Serious About Games will be hosting a series of workshops and gaming popup events over the next few months, to equip teams with knowledge on serious games, relevant business acumen and allow them to engage with their audience.
Come along on the 16th to find out more!
************
Update, the submission deadline was on Monday, and we have had 17 Submissions in total, which is fantastic for a first time running and the niche nature of the competition. All the entries look fairly solid and there is potential for some excellent games to come from this!
Thank you to everyone from the community that entered, and good luck!
*************
We will be announcing the winner tomorrow at an event at the Bandwidth Barn! I hope that I will be seeing a lot of you there. This is a really exciting point for the game dev community. The backers of the competition seem to be pleased with results of the competition, and I will definitely be looking to make this an regular event!
You can get your tickets online here: https://www.quicket.co.za/events/27351-the-final-sas-biggest-serious-games-competition/#/
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Congratulations to @Shanemarks and Renderheads on winning the R1million prize for the Serious About Games Competition!
Comments
Is it open to participants outside the cape area? I'm guessing it might be up to them to get to the cape to present their work, but that they can probably do most of it from anywhere.
What time is the event starting? I've seen 17:30, 18:00 and 18:30 in various places.
Teams can include members from out side the Western Cape, but the majority of the team needs to be based in the Cape. Organisations outside of the Western Cape can partner with an organisation within the Western Cape if they wish to enter.
The Event starts at 18:30, but we are asking people to be there by 18:00
But also, is there a way to register without being there next week for those living in JHb?
Above all, really hope some real economically empowering good comes out of this :)
I'm based in Joburg and would really like to collaborate.
Also there was Pizza.
They did say that a majority of the team needs to be based in the Western Cape, and that teams that attend the events around the Cape will get some preference (it's not clear how significant).
(I don't have the details, and they're not present on the website, but I heard that the final 4 games were really great and one team was chosen as the winner)