Develop in Brighton in partnership with the Wellcome Trust brings a Live Pitch event to this year’s conference. This could be the big chance a Train2Game student has been looking for!

Developers are invited to apply for the chance to receive up to £10,000 each to develop a high-impact pitch for their game to help secure a distribution platform and funding. The ideas for your game need to draw on or be inspired by contemporary or historical biological or medical science in an innovative and accessible way. The games can be developed for any mass-appeal genre, platform or business model.

Those who are successful will go on to pitch their developed game ideas to a panel of publishers and funders at a live event at Develop in Brighton on Wednesday 10 July 2013.

Panellists joining the Wellcome Trust, who are a global charity dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health, include Sony XDev and crowd-funding platform Indiegogo.

Participating developers will be invited to receive additional pitch training ahead of the live event.

Previous game developers who have been funded through this is Fayju, an independent games company, who linked with University of Essex biochemistry researcher Dr Jody Mason to create an interactive game – ‘Cascade’ – to convey Alzheimer’s disease pathology at the cellular level, as well as potential therapeutic intervention approaches. With an ageing population and the number of people with dementia set to double every 25 years, it is clear that without better therapies, young people of today will become the carers of those with Alzheimer’s disease tomorrow.

How To Apply

Submissions are open until Friday 26 April.

Development funds can be used to develop a game prototype, demo or mood reel.

To enter your idea, apply through this link, where you can also find more details on what the Wellcome Trust are looking for.

If you have any queries about this opportunity, please email Iain Dodgeon i.dodgeon@wellcome.ac.uk