TIGA, the trade association representing the UK’s games industry, today announced it is supporting E4’s Grand Master Flash award to find the UK’s most talented young flash designer.
The competition, called ‘Grand Master Flash’ is open to all and offers a £5,000 first prize, plus a copy of Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 Master Collection (worth £2,400). Any Flash game made in the past 12 months can be entered, or entrants can submit games made especially for the competition. All entries must be uploaded to the E4 website by August 17, 2009.
To support the competition TIGA will be offering the winner and two runners up the chance to showcase their work on the tiga.org home page and in the top portfolios section – a space designed to profile new talent.
Lorna Evans, TIGA project manager stated: “The £5,000 first prize is a great incentive to enter, but we also want to help young talent in the long term, by providing them with a route to showcase their work to potential employers in the games industry.”
Jody Smith, Editor of E4.com said: “More people are making and playing web games than ever before. On E4 Games, we're lucky to already be working with some of the best game developers the web has to offer, and by holding this competition we're looking to find a whole new batch of genius game creators to celebrate and reward the work they do.”
The deadline for entry is 10am precisely on Monday 17 August 2009. Soon after, the judging panel will sift through all the entries and pick their favourites. Then shortlisted entries will then go to a public vote on the E4 website.
Full details about Grand Master Flash go to http://www.e4.com/grandmasterflash/.
To play last year’s winning entry go to http://www.e4.com/game/stickman-madness.
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About TIGA
TIGA is the trade association representing the UK games industry. The majority of our members are either independent games developers or in-house publisher owned developers. We also have outsourcing companies, technology businesses and universities amongst our membership.
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. www.tiga.org
For more information please contact Eva Whitlow, TIGA PR Manager on: 07814 039 983, or email eva@tiga.org.