TIGA, the trade association
representing the UK games industry and BlueVia, the global developer platform
from Telefonica, today announced that Gareth Morris, Partner Engineer at
Facebook will give the opening keynote at GameHack.
Dr. Richard Wilson, TIGA
CEO, said:
“I am delighted that Gareth Morris from Facebook
will be delivering the keynote speech at the TIGA – BlueVia GameHack. Facebook
joins 15 other excellent industry partners for what promises to be an exciting weekend
in games development. Facebook's support is a further boost for our
innovative and popular GameHack”.
GameHack provides
participants with the opportunity to think creatively and develop an original
game under pressure within just 24 hours. It enables participants to work
innovatively as a team in an inspirational setting, at Pinewood Studios, with
the chance to win some amazing prizes as well as network with some of the best
developers in the UK games industry.
For
more information, please visit www.gamehack.co.uk.
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NOTES FOR EDITORS
List of all the prizes
Fourteen
prizes are available across eight categories:
1.
Best cross platform application
2.
Best use of mobile
3.
HTML5 games category
4.
Mobile social game hack
5.
Procedural generation challenge
6.
Games trailer challenge
7.
Best flash game for iOS
8.
Best Game Award
Prizes
on offer for winners are:
1.
Made with Marmalade professional license worth $3,499
2.
£500 worth of Arduino vouchers
3.
2 x £500 cash prizes
4.
Potential to receive an additional £2,500 to fund completion and
publishing of the game on Turbulenz
5.
Adobe Creative Suite Premium (worth £1,429 excl.VAT)
6.
2 x top of the range Android smartphones
7.
25,000 downloads of your game guaranteed with Papaya’s Social Game
Engine
8.
Opportunity to mix your next games trailer at Pinewood Post Production
9.
Half a day motion capture studio time with Centroid
10.
One year’s free membership of TIGA
1
1.
One year’s free membership of TechHub
12.
PS Vita Development Kit
About TIGA
TIGA is the trade
association representing the UK’s games industry. The majority of our members
are either independent games developers or in-house publisher owned developers.
We also have games publishers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses and
universities amongst our membership. TIGA won 10 business awards and was
nominated a finalist for 9 other awards during 2010 and 2011. In 2010
TIGA won two business awards including ‘Trade Association of the Year’ from the
Trade Association Forum.
In 2011, TIGA won eight business awards
including ‘Trade Association of the Year’ from the Trade Association Forum,
‘Outstanding Organisation’ from the Chartered Management Institute and two
Global Business Excellence Awards, including ‘Outstanding Marketing Campaign’.
Richard Wilson won the ‘Leadership Award’ from the Trade Association Forum and
the ‘Outstanding Leader’ award from the Chartered Management Institute.
TIGA is an Investors in People organisation.
TIGA's vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games
business. We focus on three sets of activities: political representation,
generating media coverage and developing services that enhance the
competitiveness of our members. This means that TIGA members are
effectively represented in the corridors of power, their voice is heard in the
media and they receive benefits that make a material difference to their
businesses, including a reduction in costs and improved commercial
opportunities.
For further information, please contact Dr
Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on: 07875 939 643, or email richard.wilson@tiga.org.
About BlueVia
BlueVia is the global developer platform from Telefonica that helps developers
take apps, web services, and ideas to market. BlueVia is built on four
founding principles: – Scale – Tools – Business Models – Path to
Market BlueVia offers ground breaking, zero risk, business models for
developers, along with ‘mix & match’ models to create multiple revenue
streams. For more information, documentation and video tutorials, go to http://www.bluevia.com/