Including the 4th funding round, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg's games funding is already at 3.4 million euros.
Update from September 30, 2024: €1.6 million for 19 projects – this is the result of the 4th funding meeting at the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. Of this, €715,000 is attributable to the following six games that are currently being developed in the capital region:
- Realities.io: Puzzles Places 2D – €250,000
- Horizon computer graphics: iris – €100,000
- Aldamami Games: Bloodletter – €160,000
- Butter by The Fish: Flick Shot Rogues – €90,000
- Adrient Laurent: The Masquerade – €45,000
- Carte Blanche Media: Emmi & Unipig – Anyone Can Be A Unicorn! – €70,000
Update from August 27, 2024: The Medienboard and the Canada Media Fund (CMF) have been working together for seven years. Three additional digital co-productions have now been funded as part of the Canada Germany Digital Media Incentive. A delegation trip for Berlin games and XR games studios to Vancouver is also planned for the fall, which is organized by Medianet Berlin-Brandenburg.
The project funding at a glance:
- GTVdocs / Antivca Productions: Exile (total €173,000 – including €60,000 from MBB)
- Telescope Game Studios / Tobo: The Last Whale Singer – Interactive Storybook (total: €100,000 – of which €50,000 from MBB)
- Syncreality / Shadow Box Cinema: Don't Pick Up: Prototype XP (total: €82,820 – of which €60,000 from MBB)
Update from July 24, 2024: The “Summer Session” is over – and the new media funding award committee has distributed €2 million to 14 projects in the capital region. Of this, around €733,000 is attributable to the following five games studios and their games:
- Litejoy Games: Hidden Tales – €250,000
- Randwerk Games: Wanderburg – €200,000
- Stratosphere Games: Project Desert – €147,000
- Sudden Forest: Summer on Tidewind – €100,000
- GaHa Games: Later – €36,500
Update from April 10, 2024: The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg's new media funding is happening in quick succession: a total of €1.5 million is being made available for 16 additional projects.
The games sector accounts for a total of more than €735,500:
- Trail mix Berlin: Project Garden (Working title) – €300,000
- Point Blank Game Studios: Black Ocean – €200,000
- Nukuna Interactive: Tell me (Working title) – €116,000
- Telescope Game Studios: Summer camp – €80,000
- Daniel Wichterich: Tackle for loss – €39,500
Games funding in Berlin: €240,000 for Paintbucket Games
At the start of the 2024 season, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is providing a total of €1.23 million for games development.
Report from February 8, 2024: Since May 2023 at the latest, the federal states' funding programs have become much more important because the Federal Ministry of Economics' funding funds have been exhausted – a situation that will not change until the end of 2024. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg supported game developers in the capital region with €5 million in 2023.
Subsidies worth millions are again planned for 2024. In its first meeting, the Media Board's so-called new media funding department has already issued its first notices. Half a million alone goes to the Berlin-based Thoughtfish GmbH, which runs the virtual reality 'god game'. Good & Evil builds – the name and concept are reminiscent of the classic Black & White. The studio has also received a commitment of €651,680 from the federal government, which will be used in the project planned for 2025 Earthscaper flow.
Paintbucket Games will receive another €240,000: The studio, which was awarded the German Computer Game Prize in April last year, is developing a dystopian 'rogue life sim' called Silicon Sunk.
The funded studios and projects at a glance:
- Thoughtfish: Good & Evil – €500,000
- Paintbucket Games: Silicon Sunk – €240,000
- Nightshift Game Development: Heir to the Throne – €200,000
- Night Alb: Walpurgis – €160,000
- Deep Sky: All Hands – €75,000
- Toutou Interactive: Tiny Train Adventures – €55,000