Deadline: 01-Sep-2025
Entries are now open for Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council’s Game Design Emerging Talents: Pre-production Project.
Pro Helvetia promotes the professional contemporary Swiss art and cultural production (without film) with a view to diversity as well as national and international reach.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: up to CHF 20,000. Additional, individual coaching measures are possible.
Eligibility Criteria
- Emerging Talents’ are professional game designers whose game design-relevant education or company foundation (as a legal entity) dates back less than 7 years.
- To be eligible for support, projects must:
- have a clear connection to Switzerland
- be of nationwide importance
- be adequately co-funded by other public or private means
- respects/guarantee fair working conditions
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following are excluded:
- Commissioned work and projects that are part of an advertising campaign or for promotional purposes
- Purely technological projects without an obvious narrative and/or aesthetic content
Selection Criteria
- Originality, feasibility, high degree of innovation and marketability
- Independent concept – further refinement of own, already realised projects are also permitted
- Digital content for devices such as computers, game consoles, mobile devices or for mixed reality, the use of which requires a high degree of interaction and has a major impact on the content
- Copyright and rights of use are held by the project sponsor.
Application Requirements
- Playable prototype
- Trailer (no longer than two minutes)
- Project description (up to 20 A4 pages) incl. images, CV of the participants, market analysis with target group description, plan for development, production and commercial distribution
- Proof of status as an Emerging Talent: diploma or proof of company registration.
For more information, visit Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.