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Update your company’s profile on gamesmap.de
April 12, 2021

Watch the video: Workshop Prototype Funding Insights
April 6, 2021

Prototype Funding 2021 application phase has started
March 29, 2021

Time for the Milestone Pitch: What have the teams achieved in 6 weeks of Games Lift?
October 21, 2020
The Milestone Pitch on October 19 marked the end of the first half of Gamecity’s Games Lift Incubator 2020. In a two hour presentation, the awarding committee and mentors of the program got to check in on the progress of our five teams. There was a lot to see and talk about.

Games Lift: Crumbling feels like playing with action figures
October 19, 2020
Ole Jürgensen and Leonie Brosz still remember the way we all used to play when we were kids. Now, they are bringing it back. The novel idea at the heart of VR game „Crumbling“ is a really natural way of controlling your character.

Games Lift: Ninja Brigade will suck you into an Arcade
October 16, 2020
Or, to be more precise, it is keyboardist and composer Jonah Weingarten who gets sucked in. Players get to look like him and fight through a fantastic landscape inspired by feudal Japan. Dev team members Nico Plötz and Robin Stephan explain their wild idea.

Register now for the Online Game Jam at the PLAY20 Festival
October 13, 2020
Gamecity Hamburg invites you to participate in an online game jam that will take place during the PLAY20 Festival.

5 unique ideas: The projects that make up Games Lift
October 9, 2020
It’s time to talk teams and projects. They define the Games Lift Incubator’s purpose: The whole point of the program is to help them thrive. In the coming weeks, we will take a closer look at each of them. But in order to get a sense of their diversity, let’s start with an overview.

Games Lift - What's in a workshop
September 28, 2020
Good workshops are hard to find. In the Games Lift incubator, they are a main attraction of the program. It’s seasoned game devs giving personal advice to a small group. But there is a crinkle: Because of the pandemic, this time around all talks and workshops of the Games Lift Incubator are being held remotely.

Application for Gamecity Hamburg program "Games Transfer" now possible
September 21, 2020
In order to increase the visibility of current game projects and to support the initiation of new business contacts, Gamecity Hamburg now promotes participation in online and in-person events for game developers and studios from Hamburg with the program "Games Transfer".

The Games Lift Incubator starts now. What does it incubate, exactly?
September 14, 2020
As another important program to support up-and-coming game developers and the games ecosystem in Hamburg, our Games Lift Incubator finally lifts off. Time for a quick inventory: What does the program do? What does it hope to achieve? We asked Gamecity Hamburg’s project manager Margarete Schneider to get us into the details of this new incubation program.

Survey: How are the media and creative industries doing in Hamburg?
September 10, 2020
How are the media and creative industries doing in Hamburg? What influence does the covid-19 pandemic have on media and creative companies, how does it affect business and companies‘ requirements? What do you expect in relation to the media location Hamburg?

"REPTRAILS - Save the FRD" - Interview with developer Torsten Fock-Herde
September 3, 2020
We talked with kabuff.co developer Torsten Fock-Herde about their upcoming game REPTRAILS - Save the FRD and the ongoing crowdfunding project.

Games Lift: these 5 games projects will be supported in Batch 1
August 26, 2020
The participants for the first batch of the new "Games Lift" Incubator by Gamecity Hamburg have been selected

9 game studios and Gamecity Hamburg at the digital gamescom 2020
August 24, 2020
The first purely digital gamescom opens its doors from August 27 to 30. Internet users worldwide will have the opportunity to experience the newly developed Indie Arena Booth Online for the first time.

Mind the Progress congress 2020 as podcast
August 6, 2020
As the annual Mind the Progress congress by the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft in co-operation with nextMedia.Hamburg cannot take place in its usual form this year, a completely new alternative was found to provide interested members of especially, but not exclusively, the creative industries with an understanding and a discussion of topics concerning digital change in the modern age.

Road to gamescom 2020: Gamecity Hamburg supports 9 Hamburg-based teams
July 23, 2020
These teams will receive a digital booth and more at the Indie Arena Booth Online.

Games Lift Incubator: Ed Valiente, Rebecca Lautner, Arno Heinisch and more are on board
July 21, 2020
In the past weeks and months we have built up a workshop and mentoring program for our Games Lift Incubator.

What is the Games Lift Incubator and why should you participate?
July 16, 2020
Margarete Schneider explains what it's all about.