Twelve creative businesses awarded funding to develop cutting-edge video games and immersive experiences.
Twelve Wales-based game development studios are to share over £580,000 to help them to develop innovative video games and immersive experiences for commercial release.
The funding, via Creative Wales’ Games Development Fund, offered £10,000 to £50,000 per project, with the idea of bringing fresh gaming concepts to market.
The programme encourages new creative concepts with robust market strategies, supporting businesses on their way to achieving self-sustaining growth and long-term commercial success.
Recipients span the breadth of Wales, with successful applicants based in locations from Caernarfon to Pembrokeshire and with their content varying from quests set in the rural mountains, to virtual reality experiences and Welsh mythology-inspired adventures.
This fund is just part of a raft of initiatives Creative Wales offers the gaming industry. Their other support includes the Scale Up Fund, which recently awarded £850,000 to 6 Welsh companies; supporting numerous studios to join a trade mission to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco earlier this year, as well as another trade trip planned for next month to Slush 2025, in partnership with Games London.
Please visit the GOV.WALES website to read the announcement.