With the Gamesload European Newcomer Award your team has the chance to win 2.500 € as prize money as well as a European-wide distribution deal with Gamesload if you achieve the first place.
Here are the guidelines for a successful submission to the award:

• Your game has been developed by university students, was a student’s project or was created and developed by a team of independent developers.
• Your team members are older than 16 years and have not yet worked in a professional game developer studio or as freelancer in the games industry.
• Your project is not a commissioned work for a professional developer and has not yet been released in any distributional channels.
• Your project is not encumbered with third persons’ rights, you own all rights to your project.
• Your project must at least exist in a playable version (beta version, prototype) as a whole or in parts (levels), which gives an idea of the game’s concept. You may also include trailers, videos or screenshots to complete the game’s impression
• The entry deadline for a successful submission is July 26th 2010.
• Awardees can be students, young professional developers, branch newcomers, natural persons or legal entities, it they are authorized to accept the award for its proper use.
  
• We reserve the right to cancel your submission to the award without further explanation even if all guidelines have been kept.
  
• Your project must have been developed for the PC.

If you want to submit a game or have any questions concerning the Gamesload European Newcomer Award you can contact us via email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or telephone +49 208 – 69 82 608

What could be your reward? You can win a European-wide distribution deal for your project by Gamesload and 2.500€ prize money in cash!

The European Games Award is the first award exclusively for European video and computer game developers, which lets professionals and gamers from all over Europe participate in the voting for the best games.

The award ceremony – after having been held in Cologne (Germany) for two years – will then take place in a different European capital each year. The première of the European Games Award on August 14th 2010 will be in an extraordinary location: on the Pure Liner, an event ship, which will leave Niehler Harbor in Cologne and will sail along the Rhine during the award ceremony.

The European Games Award wants to demonstrate how many important games have been developed in Europe, and it wants to honor the work of the developers, publishers and all those involved in the production and marketing of games.