Of course, we will execute the latest COVID19 rules on site for your and all attendees safety. If these rules don´t allow a proper event in the physical space, the finals will be held online.

Timetable:

4-6pm Playtesting of Student Projects

7pm Start Live Pitch Competition

Nomination with an ensuing Pitching Workshop

To get feedback on a game in development, you would usually ask your (favourable) friends or beta testers rather than impartial industry keyplayers who can make a firm but fair assessment and point game developers in the right direction. SUBOTRON founded the series “Live Pitches of Austrian Games” in 2012 to professionalise Austria’s game dev talent. Out of a call, the jurors have picked five projects whose students were provided with a Pitching Workshop. The workshop serves not only as a preparation for this night, but also as an ideal communication training for the current and future games projects.

Agenda

The games of the finalists can be playtested from 4-6pm on site and the students anwer questions.

From 7pm, each representative of the nominated games is given ten minutes maximum to convince the three jurors of their project who give immediate feedback. Not only the presentation is being evaluated, but also the game itself. Was the teaser significant? Is the game play conclusive and the target group identified? What is the prospect on the aimed at market? Are the conceptions regarding financing models, marketing strategies and sales promising?

Would the developer be able to tease an AAA publisher in the elevator of a conference hotel so he decides to arrange an appointment? Does the game have a USP that makes investors and business angels prick up their ears?

Moderation: Robert Glashüttner (ORF/FM4)

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH

Unterstützt von der Fachgruppe UBIT Wien

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung vom Zentrum für Angewandte Spieleforschung der Donau Universität Krems