Game Creation Contest

Big video game contest organised by MAGIC.

For the fourth time, MAGIC comes back with a unique video game contest. Prize: € 100 000 for investment toward your project !

The MAGIC Edition 2018 program:

11am  Presentation of the SKYBOLT ZACK project
2pm Presentation of the CRAZY DREAMZ project
2:45pm  Presentation of the UNMAZE project
3:30pm  Presentation of the XENOPHEVER project
4:15pm  Presentation of the YMENOK REBORN project
5:00pm Judging Panel Committee Evaluation
6:55pm Game Creation Contest final winner announcement in the Camille Blanc Room

with panel of judges Jordan Mechner, Philippe Moreau and Maxence Devoghelaere

As you probably already figured out, at Shibuya Productions we are truly passionate about video games.
We believe that many current video game productions are too focused on aesthetics and often lack truly interesting and exciting gameplay.
For us gameplay is a fundamental part of enjoyable gaming. We can’t help thinking about the old days when, no matter what the game, console, computer or arcade, one could play it over and over again, and still enjoy it every time.
Our goal is to encourage those SPECIAL FEW who put gameplay in the center of their game creations.

If you want to participate in the contest, please fill out the form here and download the Terms and Conditions here

For any question, please contact gamecontest@magic-ip.com

Schedule
The contest dates will be as follows:

• 6th June – 1st October 2017 – Registration period
• 17th November 2017 – Deadline for submitting applications
• 24th January 2018 – Announcement of the 5 selected projects
• Saturday 24th February 2018 – Jury deliberation in the presence of the candidates to determine the winner following the presentations of the 5 selected projects

EPIC LOON: MAGIC 2016 winner of the game creation contest 

Congratulations to Epic Loon – the big winner of the game creation contest during MAGIC 2016! They won the €100,000 investiment prize by Shibuya Productions.

Epic Loon is a cooperative and competitive party game with a plateformer core gameplay based on the laws of physics.

It’ll be launched in 2017 on PC, MAC, Xbox One and PS4.

Epic Loon tells the subversive story of four proud aliens, newly landed on Earth in order to decimate its population and who, by a combination of circumstances, find themselves stuck in the video recorder of Joe, 31 years old, professional nerd and bachelor living at his grandmother house, having planned on this beautiful evening of summer 1982 to eat chips watching his favorite VHS… Our four conquerors will journey from movies to movies, helpless and confused by these troubling scenes and hostile universes. They’ll have to find a way of escaping at any cost…

The team: Maxence DEVOGHELAERE (Game Manager), Thomas DAIDE (Lead Artist), Christophe DA SILVA (Game Designer), Anthony LAURENT (Artist) and Matthieu RICHARD (Developer)

To be released in 2018 !

SwapTales: Léon ! – winner of MAGIC 2015’s game creation contest

Léon! is the winner of the Monaco Anime Game International Conferences 2015 game creation contest! It is a game for kids starting at 6, who want to play alone or with mum or dad! It is a kind of open and interactive book.

Play in cooperation with your child! Swap words around in order to change what happens in the page which will also influence the rest of the story and Leon’s fate!

Smartly combine words on each page to help Léon in his adventure! On your way you’ll come across numerous wordplays and surprising situations, which lead to 17 different endings!

The game is now available on Ipad and Android since October 2016!

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Cédric Biscay

C'est un grand honneur pour Shibuya Productions d'annoncer la 4ème édition du Monaco Anime Game International Conferences (MAGIC) qui aura lieu le 24 février prochain au Grimaldi Forum. En tant qu'amateur de mangas, de jeux vidéo, d'animation et de comics, je souhaite partager ces passions auprès d'un public amoureux de ces univers en sollicitant les plus grands artistes internationaux. Read more...