$500,000 Simulate a Better World Video Challenge

WILL Interactive, Inc. (WILL) follows a corporate philosophy of “doing well by doing good.” A major component of WILL’s business philosophy is the company’s desire to create positive social change through the use of Virtual Experience Immersive Learning Simulations (VEILS®). In that vein, this Challenge is a call for entries for the creation of a VEILS® serious game simulation to address a pressing social issue. To learn more about WILL, Interactive, click [here].

VEILS® is an immersive technology that harnesses the engaging characteristics of game-based video simulations to capture the attention of individuals at a level that leads them to positive action. To learn more about VEILS® serious game simulations, and to view demo segments of VEILS® simulations, click [here].

Each winner of this Challenge will have the social issue identified in his/her/its Entry addressed through the development of a VEILS® game-based video simulation, and will receive, at no cost, the perpetual right to use the simulation. WILL will absorb all product development costs (approximate value = $500,000) to develop the VEILS® simulation. Winning Entrants will receive a royalty if the resulting simulation is commercialized, and organization Entrants will receive co-branding recognition on the simulation.

The winning Entrant(s) must actively participate in product development reviews and provide subject matter expertise for successful development of the winning simulation(s). Additionally, in order to help maximize the positive impact on the widest possible audience, proposals must contain a marketing and distribution plan that describes how the simulation will be disseminated and the Entrant’s prior experience relevant to the marketing and distribution of learning products.

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DIGITAL OPEN CALL: $20K for Black Digital Projects from NBPC

From the National Black Programming Consortium
http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/for-producers

Your support and engagement with our summer of original content brought us a very fulfilling season. We hope you enjoyed Mondo Black, and Black Folk Don’t, and we hope you continue to engage with them, leave your comments, and join the conversation via Twitter and Facebook!

Both series were funded through our annual Digital Open Call; an interactive call for original web content focused on stories about the global black diaspora. Stories can be narrative, documentary, audio, video, etc, as  long as they present a unique opportunity for our audience to interact  around engaging subject matter.

And for the very first time this year we are opening up the call to include “serious games.” So come on down developers of mobile and web-based  games; an innovative new way to get audiences discussing truly important issues.

So are you a producer? Are you a  game developer? Do you want to see your own series on  BlackPublicMedia.org? Be sure to get your applications in, our deadline for the $20,000 digital grant is approaching on September, 26th!

Two projects will receive $20,000 each to make their ideas a reality, and  these projects will launch on BlackPublicMedia.org in the summer of  2012! Don’t waste any time, download the guidelines, and submit your online application.

http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/for-producers/

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