Get In The Game has been a very interesting one this time, as it opened up to the Yorkshire and Humber region, and we had a lot of companies applying that weren’t traditionally game developers. Vision+Media are pretty orward looking when it comes to development, so GITG has always been a pretty good deal for developers: Not only do the successful ones get the prototype funding, but they get to keep their IP too.

The final pitches happened late in March, and we’ve had time to feed everything back to the companies. Phil Gaskell, head of XDev Studio Europe had this to say just after everyone had pitched: “I saw some really promising work today. We’re certainly going to be looking further into certain projects, and there’s a chance some of them might make it all the way to PlayStation”

Giong further back into GITG2, the workshop was much bigger than it’s been before, with agile training and some especially effective, but also nerve wracking pitch training, in which people were placed in front of a camera to pitch, only to watch and analyse the tape afterward. Everyone returned a month later to pitch for real money with a game idea, and ultimately five were selected from that first batch of pitches to receive £10K of prototype funding each, going through several subsequent stages on the way to the final pitch improving their pitching skills, knowledge and their prototypes.

It’s been arduous at points; as you can see by the posts below, the dummy pitches to Sony producers were an especially harsh step in the process, but ultimately a valuable one in focussing everything the companies had learned.

Unfortunately, I’m afraid we can’t reveal whether or not any of the prototypes have been picked up by Sony, but some very promising projects came out of the past 8 months. I’d like to thank all of the companies for taking part: It’s All In The Game Baby, Savvy Productions, Pixinworks, Milky Tea and Grant Midwinter. You all did yourselves proud with the prototype funding, and we wish you the best of luck taking your projects further.

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