As funds for indie game developers are gradually becoming a rarity, Ardán’s supportive pilot programme may be opening the next generation of indie game development.
Ireland’s non-profit entertainment organisation, Ardán, announced a few days ago their collaboration with Imirt Irish Game Makers in a pilot scheme aimed to help Irish indie developers take the first leap of their dreams.
Both organisations focus on bringing the talents of creators to the surface, supporting them however possible with methods such as funding, training, mentorship or access to information.
Dubbed as ‘IndieDev 2024’, the scheme consists of competition between applicants, and the measurement of competitive capacity will mainly be their knowledge and talent on development. The selected candidates will then be interviewed by members of Ardán, IMIRT, Northern Ireland Screen and Screen Ireland.
The next stage of the competition involves workshops and mentorships from experts for two weeks, in which the prototypes of each game will be devised and then developed between the subsequent 10-12 weeks.
In the end, 7 teams in total will each be funded up to an astonishing £15,000 / €15,000 based on specific criteria.
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This is purely great news for indie developers not only in Ireland but in other regions as well. If IndieDev 2024 turns out to be successful in terms of attention and the quality of the games, since it is currently a pilot programme, the size of the scheme might even expand to other parts of the world.
The success is quite likely because Ireland’s gaming market is on a rise.
“The Irish games market is expanding,” said Alan Duggan, Ardán’s CEO, in a social media post. “but key to the success of the sector is strategic support for grassroots indie game developers as they level up.
“As champions of creative talent development in the West of Ireland, Ardán has spent several years nurturing that games talent locally in Galway, and we look forward to joining forces with our partners in IMIRT, Screen Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen to support talent at an all-island level.”
