Get funding for Windows Phone app!

trobok

Hey Guys,

I thought I might share this here as it doesnt seem like many people have heard about this and would be great seeing guys from MakeGamesSA on Board.

We recently got funded to build our New World Of Rabbit game through this channel and are in the process of building the game.

Basically its funding from Microsoft, Nokia and a university in Finland, open to anyone as long as the project is exclusive for 3 months on Windows Marketplace. Its a real great opportunity and they have EURO18 million to spend. So far I believe about 200 companies/ppl have been funded. They will fund new titles and not any updates of existing games available.

For more info and all the deets, check out:

http://www.appcampus.fi/

Best of luck!

Rick

Tuism

So I went poking around, and found...

http://www.appcampus.fi/application said:

THIS APPLICATION FORM IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

We are currently not accepting online applications. We are focusing on reviewing proposals from participants in the Mobile App Acceleration Camp (MAAC) events that are taking place around the world. If you are interested in applying to AppCampus, we recommend that you check out the information on these events and apply to participate on one of them.

If you have any questions or if there is not a MAAC available in your region, feel free to contact us at info (at) appcampus.fi.

trobok

Damnnnn.... no South Africa in the list either...

Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Isreal, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, UK, Ukraine, USA and Vietnam.

Guess we could all make a noise as to why these dont exist here.

https://www.facebook.com/appcampus.fi

Funny though as someone from Joburg recently got funded, maybe they closed it recently.

trobok

Would be interesting to find out from Microsoft here why SA is not on the list.

trobok

So a bit of research, now you need to join the events in the countries where its happening. SA is not listed but you can still apply if you willing to travel. Closest one in kenya...

http://www.appcampus.fi/blog/229-mobile-app-acceleration-camp-fast-track-to-appcampus

Hope that helps. Might be worth still emailing the address listed in the article and seeing what happens.

SniperED007

Hi,
you can still apply in South Africa by going here: http://www.mlab.co.za/appcampus/

If they like your idea they then send it off to Nokia in Finland. I think they only take the top 3 in South Africa each time.

The current batch just finished last week, but the next batch has to be in by June/July I think.

edg3

Also, Nokia featured this: http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/02/13/windows-phone-appcampus/

And if you want to speak to a local dev that has successfully used app campus speak to RogueCode ( http://twitter.com/roguecode ), if I remember correctly his game was funded by appcampus: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/vala-alpha/d23fe3c1-4a3f-4dc8-a0da-9fb691c89c37

roguecode

Yes, I was funded by them (came here to post the game actually :P), and were chosen to go to Finland. We spent an awesome month there.