2019 MassDiGI Game Challenge finalists announced – 2/23/19

2019 MassDiGI Game Challenge – Finalists

Indies

Dirty Beast Games with Feral Frontier #8
Lantana Games with Mondrian – Plastic Reality #15
Snow Pumpkins with Sole Iron Tail #18

College & University – Division A – Pie

Socha Studios (Northeastern University) with Mazu #19
Team Disco*Vision (Champlain College) with Blood to Ink #22
TOUGON (Becker College) with Smush #26
Shattered Journal Games (Becker) with Floaty Fighters #17

College & University – Division B – Donut

FPS (Northeastern) with Fruit Postal Service #10
Hard Hats Studio (Becker) with Maximum House/Property Damage #14
Wrong Warp Games (Champlain) with Arachnotron #27
Bone Force Games (Northeastern) with Deadboy #3

College & University – Division C – Brisket

Gungus, Wungus, & Jimmy (WPI) with Friend Sighting #13
Starflight Studios (Becker) with Shooty Dart #20
Sunburst Studio (WPI) with Sliptime Sleuth #21
Basic Witch (Becker) with Project Birchtree #2

High School

Cryptic Chad (Nashua North HS (NH)) with Soul Mates* #7

Stay tuned for more updates.

Due to the distribution of competitors this year the Grand Prize winner will be selected from the winners of each of the above categories. Total competitor pre-registrations: 37.

*Sole competitor

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2018 Pre Game Challenge a success

This past Saturday MassDiGI hosted our first-ever Pre Game Challenge. The event, held on campus at Becker College’s Colleen C. Barrett Center, featured a full house on hand to listen, learn and pitch.

The crowd, made up primarily of college and university students, including those from institutions such as Becker, WPI and Baruch among others, were in the room to hear from game industry veterans Jeff Goodsill (Dailybreak CP), Rich Gallup (Otherside Entertainment) and Oleg Brodskiy (BostonFIG Fest) about what goes into a great game pitch.

PGC ’18 First Place – Sunburst Studio

After hearing some excellent advice and getting some tips, tricks and insight into the elements of a pitch, a dozen teams signed up to take part in the inaugural PGC Minute To Pitch It Contest. The contest, judged by Jeff, Rich and Oleg, featured a lot of well-constructed pitches from many talented, budding game entrepreneurs and in the end the judges chose Sliptime Sleuths by Sunburst Studio, a team from WPI, as the first place winner. In second place was another team from WPI, Gungus, Wungus & Jimmy with Cryptid College. Third place went a team from Becker with Prototype Arrow. An honorable mentioned was awarded to WPI’s Kobi D. with Bloody Mary’s.

The Pre Game Challenge was designed to give attendees a chance to hear from experts and practice pitching well in advance of our annual late winter/early spring Game Challenge. And, to that extent, the event was a great success – we can’t wait to see what’s next!

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Save the dates – 12/4/18

Save the dates

Our 2019 dates to remember are:

January 4, 2019 – SIP Application Period opens
February 22-23, 2019 – MassDiGI Game Challenge
March 19, 2019 – Made In MA at GDC
March 28, 2019 – Made In MA at PAX East

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Inaugural Pre Game Challenge a success – 12/3/18

Inaugural Pre Game Challenge a success

By Timothy Loew, Executive Director

This past Saturday MassDiGI hosted our first-ever Pre Game Challenge. The event, held on campus at Becker College’s Colleen C. Barrett Center, featured a full house on hand to listen, learn and pitch.

The crowd, made up primarily of college and university students, including those from institutions such as Becker, WPI and Baruch among others, were in the room to hear from game industry veterans Jeff Goodsill (Dailybreak CP), Rich Gallup (Otherside Entertainment) and Oleg Brodskiy (BostonFIG Fest) about what goes into a great game pitch.

PGC ’18 First Place – Sunburst Studio

After hearing some excellent advice and getting some tips, tricks and insight into the elements of a pitch, a dozen teams signed up to take part in the inaugural PGC Minute To Pitch It Contest. The contest, judged by Jeff, Rich and Oleg, featured a lot of well-constructed pitches from many talented, budding game entrepreneurs and in the end the judges chose Sliptime Sleuths by Sunburst Studio, a team from WPI, as the first place winner. In second place was another team from WPI, Gungus, Wungus & Jimmy with Cryptid College. Third place went a team from Becker with Prototype Arrow. An honorable mentioned was awarded to WPI’s Kobi D. with Bloody Mary’s.

The Pre Game Challenge was designed to give attendees a chance to hear from experts and practice pitching well in advance of our annual late winter/early spring Game Challenge. And, to that extent, the event was a great success – we can’t wait to see what’s next!

» Read More