Gamescom 2024
From August 20 to 24, we participated in Gamescom, the largest video game fair, which takes place annually in Cologne, Germany, and where 350,000 visitors attend. For our industry, this is the biggest opportunity to present domestic products to foreign media, publishers and players. With the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Center, which co-finances our […]
Bura: The Way the Wind Blows on Kickstarter
Bura, the Croatian game previously financed by the Croatian Audiovisual Center has received 50% of its required budget on Kickstarter in just 24 hours! You can back them by following this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tinymeowstudio/bura-the-way-the-wind-blows/
All Croatian PC Games In One Place
The sale of Croatian video games on the largest digital platform for video game sales, Steam, begins today. On Steam, starting September 2nd at 6 PM local time, a week-long sale will commence, which Steam has decided to highlight on its homepage as a Midweek Feature. This means that millions of players worldwide will see […]
Stop Destroying Videogames – EU initiative
In June a new citizens’ initiative has been initiated to the European Comission, named Stop Destroying Videogames. More information available here: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en#
HAMAG fund for young companies
HAMAG-BICRO published a Public Call for expressions of interest to participate in the PRE-ACCELERATION PHASE within the ACCELERATION PROGRAM as part of the “Strengthening acceleration activity” measure financed by the NPOO – National Recovery and Resilience Plan, and this was emphasized in the Agreement. The acceleration program was conceived for the purpose of implementing a […]
Call: How to start a National XR Association in Europe
Today, the CGDA was on the European call of XR companies, talking about the creation of specialised XR Associations similar to national game associations, but focused on XR. The idea of XR associations is to have a dialogue with local government and employment agencies and Universities to explain the language (what is the metaverse, what […]
Ten Croatian studios looking for international coproduction
As many as 10 Croatian studios applied for the MATCH fund for co-production this year. MATCH is an annual program that started in 2018, and the initiator of the program is SpielFabrique. Originally Franco-German, it now includes more than fifteen European countries each year. As part of the co-production fair, studios can get to know […]
Croatia on Nordic Game Policy Summit
In the week, 21.-24. 5. 2024, the twentieth anniversary edition of one of the largest conferences in the global video game industry was held: Nordic Game. HAVC’s representative, who is in charge of video games and new technologies in the Director’s Office, Benjamin Noah Maričak, promoted the newly created Games Croatia project and was one […]
Novska gets 26m€ investment in a game development campus.
Today, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković signed an agreement in Novska on financing the first phase of the Gaming Industry Center project worth 26 million euros. Minister of Regional Development Šime Erlić emphasized that this is the first project financed from the Just Transition Fund and that this kind of center, which covers 9 hectares, is […]
Research on Digital technology, play and child well-being
On this link, the research Digital technology, play and child well-being, which was conducted as part of the RITEC project, was recently published. The research sought to find out if digital games can contribute to the well-being of children and, if so, how? It involved three research projects involving children and their families in six […]
