Submit your project(s) for ChinaJoy x Game Connection 2023
Submission deadline: April 29th 2023
Please read the following statements carefully before submitting your project(s).
Submitted games must follow these 3 rules:
- Not attached or subsidiary of publisher/bigger company. However, the project may be backed by a publisher.
- Small team (less than 20 people).
- Small funding.
When submitting a project, developers agree with the following:
- Companies submitting their project must be looking for funding, publishing, distribution (worldwide, regional or domestic), investment or promotion for that specific project.
Complete terms and conditions can be found below.
Categories are:
You can nominate yourself for 1 of the following platform categories:
- Best console game
- Best PC game
- Best portable game
You can nominate yourself for 1 of the following genre categories
- Best casual game
- Best hardcore game
You can nominate yourself for 1 of the following categories
- Best single player game
- Best Chinese game
- Best foreign game
Your game can also be nominated for the following categories (based on the votes of the jury on those specific criteria):
- Best cloud gaming title
- Best visual art and design
- Best metaverse
- Most anticipated game
All nominated projects will be running for:
- Game of the year
- People’s Choice Award
Nomination Process
Submissions will be reviewed by experts from some of the most well known & recognized publishers, distributors, and media outlets in the world. The jury votes on the following criteria:
- Originality/game design
- Business model & viability of the project
- Gameplay
- Story & Story Telling
- Art / Graphism
- Personal Feeling
- Promising / Interesting IP
All nominees will be received a complimentary pass to attend ChinaJoy 2023. Winners will be announced during the Gobal Indie Development Awards ceremony.
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Rules and regulation
1. A maximum of 3 projects per company can be submitted – 1 in each platform category.
2. A same project cannot be submitted in multiple platform categories.
3. Companies submitting their project must be looking for funding, publishing, distribution (worldwide, regional or domestic), or investment for that specific project.
4. Submissions are to be made in English.
5. Applicants retain all rights & licensing authorization for any game or project submitted.
6. All data submitted in the application form will be shared with the Judging Committee.
7. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed by the Judging Committee.
8. Game Connection will advertise the project nominated. Therefore, confidential projects shall not be submitted.
9. A video is REQUIRED upon submission. It may contain elements of concept, gameplay, trailer, the team and/or the studio.
10. Nominees must provide a 30-second video for the Awards Ceremony. The video provided at the submission may be used and adapted if no other is provided by the nominee.
11. Previously nominated projects cannot be resubmitted.
12. Nominees will have free access to ChinJoy 2023.
13. A project cannot be submitted more than twice.
14. Each project nominated will automatically be nominated for the People’s Choice Award. A dedicated voting form will be created, the project’s post receiving the most like by the begining of the Development Award Ceremony will receive the Award for this category. All projects will also be nominated for the Game of the year award.
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