Red Bull Indie Forge, in its fourth edition, aims to concretely support and give visibility to the best indie video game developers on the Italian peninsula.
Registration for the 2024 edition of Red Bull Indie Forge will be open starting May 1st. Everyone will be able to submit their application with just a few click on this link by the deadline to participate set at 3 September 2024. After this date, the 5 finalist development studios will be selected by the jury composed for the 2024 edition of Glenda Galliano, Game Producer in The LEGO Group; Michele Di Nardo, Publishing Producer in Raw Fury; Cristina Nava, Producer at Ubisoft Milan; Gabriele Farina, Senior Director of Engineering at Unity Technologies; Giordano B. Torgianni, Senior Brand Marketing Manager in HoYoverse and Giulia Martino, Game Critic of Il Manifesto, FinalRound and Multiplayer.
At the end of the year, in December, this same team of experts will be in charge of selecting the winner of the 2024 edition of Red Bull Indie Forge, supported by the vast audience of enthusiasts who will have the opportunity to vote and therefore assign the scope Audience Award.
Up for grabs for whoever wins the Jury Prizethe precious support in the communication of the new video game by Red Bull, accompanied by a Predator Orion 5000 Desktop, two weeks of collaboration with BigRock’s Team Red, 12-hour “Team to NABA” consultancy and playtests on the Milan Campus of NABA, New Academy of Fine Arts, with the students of the academy and a Plug-N-Learn course at Digital Bros Game Academy.
For the winner of the Audience Awardhowever, there will be a set of Instagram stories and a live streaming on Sara “Kurolily” Stefanizzi’s Twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/kurolily), as well as a Predator Orion 3000, at the Plug-N- course Learn from Digital Bros Game Academy and the “Team to NABA” consultancy module with a playtest on the Milan Campus of NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, together with the students of the academy.
A series of live broadcasts on the official Red Bull Italia Twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/redbullit) and for the first time also in collaboration with RoundTwo (https://twitch.tv/roundtwotwitch) will see the involvement of Marco Mottura and Francesco Fossetti. The two hosts will follow the speeches of some of the major personalities in the sector, the participants of previous editions and, of course, also the jurors called to pull the strings of the current competition. Subsequently, after the summer break and the nomination of the finalists, the live broadcasts dedicated to the Red Bull Indie Forge project will focus on the stories and video games of the 5 development studios that will compete for the final prize.
In 2023, the boys of Bad Vices Games they were awarded the Jury prize with their first-person narrative adventure While We Wait Here, a human and post-apocalyptic photograph, set in the quiet of an American diner. Instead the fantasy-tinged fighting game Umbral Core, developed by A Few Rounds Gamesinstead, he received the public award.
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