Yes, all qualified game will be posted on our website for everyone to view and read up on, and hopefully, vote for!
Yes, the video is needed, as well as the screenshots. Please submit a short clip of 60-120 seconds max showcasing your game. You can use Loom to record and upload your video.
Unfortunately, this competition is for mobile games only.
Absolutely, as long as your game is complete and is ready for play and review by our judges.
Both Arabic and English, and your game must be in either both or one of the languages.
Once the call closes, a group of experts will review all applications. Experts will score applications based on originality, quality, market potential and development team. The Organization will contact all applicants to inform them about selection process results.
Get in touch with us by emailing INFO EMAIL.
Studios can expect to dedicate an average of 5-6 hours per day to The Developers Zone II training and production follow-up, throughout 2 months, starting in mid-August and ending around mid-October. This is not a full-time incubator.
The Developers Zone II will offer to the best teams additional economic aid to cover concrete needs, like hiring professionals to add missing roles to the teams or outsourcing tasks to increase publishing opportunities.
The Developers Zone II main goal is to strengthen the video games industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We train incubated teams to improve their production pipeline and to maximize their business opportunities.
The Developers Zone II lasts two months. In the first month the training is focused on production and game design, and its goal is to make teams realize the importance of implementing agile methodologies in order to improve project management, planning and performance. After that, the training program will focus on marketing, monetization strategy and pitching.
The Developers Zone II starts mid-August, exact dates are chosen once the cohort has been finalized. The program will take place in VENUE.
The winning teams in the challenge will receive digital enablement prizes worth SAR 150,000 for 3 winning projects, by receiving financial incentives of SAR 150,000 only after meeting the criteria of the MVPLAB initiative, which will distributed in installments based on the completion of the tasks required to be eligible for each batch by the project.
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In Northern Borders Province Region Chamber of Commerce Headquarters.
Both languages, Arabic and English.
It will be an intensive program that includes extensive training workshops and mentoring sessions with technical experts.
The challenge will be implemented virtually, given the circumstances of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Given the importance of each path of the challenge, it is necessary to register the participant with only one idea for each path separately.
There is no fee as the Digital Challenges Program aims to support the nation's youth and raise technical competence in general.
The competition focuses on supporting Saudi youth and developing their modern technical aspects to harmonize local technical thought with that of the developed world.
We welcome those who are passionate and interested in technology in general and Artificial Intelligence in particular, from the age of 16 years and above.
We are pleased to contact you and we will always be ready to help on the following e-mail: digitalchallenges@mcit.gov.sa
The award will be delivered to the idea owner and he is responsible for receiving and distributing it to his team members.
Attending workshops and counseling sessions is required to fully benefit from the program.
If you are accepted, a guide will be sent to you explaining the tools used and how to use them.
The competition has three main tracks: Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Generative Modeling.
Both languages, Arabic and English
It will be an intensive program that includes extensive training workshops and mentoring sessions with technical experts.
The challenge will be implemented virtually, given the circumstances of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Each idea owner must form his team consisting of 1 to 2 members as a maximum
Given the importance of each path of the challenge, it is necessary to register the participant with only one idea for each path separately.
There is no fee as the Digital Challenges Program aims to support the nation's youth and raise technical competence in general
It is allowed to register as the owner of the idea or programmer, and after receiving the acceptance notice to you, the formation of the team will start through the portal.
The competition focuses on supporting Saudi youth and developing their modern technical aspects to harmonize local technical thought with that of the developed world
We welcome those who are passionate and interested in technology in general and blockchains in particular, from the age of 18 years and above.
We are pleased to contact you and we will always be ready to help on the following e-mail: info@digitalchallenges.sa
The award will be delivered to the idea owner and he is responsible for receiving and distributing it to his team members.
Attending workshops and counseling sessions is required to fully benefit from the program.
If you are accepted, a guide will be sent to you explaining the tools used and how to use them.
The competition has three main tracks: supply chains and e-commerce, smart contracts, creative industries.
The Tech Champions team will try as much as possible to avoid accepting teams working on similar ideas.
We provide financial support of up to one million Saudi Riyals. We do not provide post-program funding. We will introduce you to potential investors and industry experts.
No, we do not take shares in your company.
The business incubator track focuses on startups in the idea stage. And the Business Accelerator track focuses on startups that are in the seed phase.
The Tech Champions Program aims to encourage technology entrepreneurs to innovate.
Stakeholders will provide their know-how and expertise to support entrepreneurs through data and data focusing on the sector and their local expertise in the respective fields.