VIDEO GAMES The gaming sector now accounts for more than half of the UK’s entire entertainment market, making it more lucrative than video and music combined. Five UK companies received a total of €740,000 to potentially contribute to this upward trend in 2019 and 2020, 61% of this total was awarded to companies based in Northern Ireland.
COMPANY
UK NATION
PROJECT TITLE (PROJECT TYPE)
Terahard Studios
England
Paranoia 150,000
Outsider Games
Northern Ireland
Tax-Force 140,000
Italic Pig
Northern Ireland
Quest Quest: The Quest for Quests 150,000
Brain and Nerd
Northern Ireland
Hortalius 150,000
The Weather Factory
England
Book of Hours 150,000
2019 AMOUNT €
2020 AMOUNT €
290,000
450,000
Over the seven years of Creative Europe (2014 – 2020), 19 grants have been awarded to 15 UK companies through this scheme, totalling €2,511,332. This equates to 10% of the total funding available Europe-wide and puts the UK as the second highest beneficiary of the scheme after Germany.
Little Orpheus is a technicolour side-scrolling adventure game inspired by classic movies like Flash Gordon, Sinbad and The Land that Time Forgot and delivered in eight bite-size, commute-friendly episodes. BAFTA-winning, Brighton-based developers The Chinese Room (now part of Sumo Digital) received early development funding for the game in 2017 which was released on Apple Arcade in June 2020.
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