Funding for NSW small-medium digital game creators

Provides grants to NSW digital game creators for early-stage game development, supporting concept advancement, scoping and preparation to raise further finance.

All applicants need to fulfil the following criteria: If an individual, the applicant must be a NSW resident (i.e., lived and operated in NSW for at least six months immediately before the application).

If a company, the applicant must be incorporated in Australia and taken to be registered in NSW, have their central management and control in Australia and carry out business in Australia.

Applicants must have an ABN.

Applicants must not be full-time secondary or tertiary students; or employing students who are currently studying games, or a field related to games.

Part-time students are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Applicants who are an employee of a Federal or state or territory government screen agency are not eligible to apply.

An applicant cannot be a licensee of a service under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (Cth) or a related body corporate of such a licensee (as defined in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)).

Applicants must have the right to carry out the project, for example, own or have the licenses of any relevant copyright.

If the application is based on a third-party underlying work, applicants must have an appropriate option agreement.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate they have the necessary rights if required by providing chain of title documents.

Applicants must have a project team member with a key creative credit on at least one game that has been released to the general public (e.g.

Steam, itch.io).

There can be only one application for a particular game.

Eligible games must be intended for public release, at concept or early-stage development, and completely digital.

Eligible games include games for any platform (console, desktop, tablet, mobile, VR/AR), multi-player and single-player games, and games for entertainment purposes.