GAME developers dreaming of creating the next Halo or Grand Theft Auto game can now turn to a more generous government grant to get them off the ground.
They can now get up to $50,000 each to get their games marketed to big publishers and sold to gamers worldwide.
This is part of the Invigorate scheme that the Media Development Authority (MDA) runs yearly to identify and help promising local developers.
This year, it will fund up to 10 developers which can come up with games that are 'cross-platform'. In other words, these games can be played on the PC, game console and mobile phone.
The funding was $35,000 for each developer last year, when the MDA pushed for 'casual' games that attracted the less hardcore gaming crowd.
MDA's assistant chief executive Seto Lok Yin said the additional funds will help developers create games that run on more than one device.
The aim, as before, is to help teams create prototypes so that they can attract potential financiers and cut deals with publishers to get their games out to the public, he added.
Some of the previous participants of the scheme have gone on to win international awards, and get noticed by big game publishers overseas.
More details on this year's application can be found at MDA's website.
