Quickload powered by OGR Torinothe first Italian 4.0 acceleration program dedicated to startup europee in the sector of gaming launched by OGR Turin, 34BigThings e Microsoftwith ID @ Xbox – the program dedicated to independent developers – and Microsoft for Startups, presents the 6 idee gaming winners of the project aimed at promoting innovation and supporting new talents.
Quickload powered by OGR Torino: the winning startups
Deep Monolith, Digitaly Arts, Dragonkin Studios, Dramatic Iceberg¸ Mash & Co and Novis Games are the names of the winning startups, which will receive adequate support, thanks to a personalized mentorship pathand will have the tools and resources necessary for the development of their business or related projects.
The evaluation of the candidates was entrusted to an international commissionmade up of experts nominated by OGR Turin, 34BigThings e Microsoft, which at the end of a long and careful analysis process, has selected 6 among the over 40 startups from all over Europe submitted to the jury’s attention. The technologies used, the settings, the genres and the values that inspired the winning teams of the project, and made up of a number of members and collaborators ranging from 3 to 22 units, were used.
The projects
We start with the idea of Deep Monolith, Turin startup, which finds inspiration in a game characterized by a strong narrative component and multiplayer dynamics, with an innovative model based on the blockchain with the aim of creating new ways to play by combining different ideas and different genres; survival horror atmosphere and third-person narrative for the Avellino startup Digitaly Arts who, with his project Moon Plague, proposes a game of exploration and action set in a suggestive and futuristic lunar station.
We continue with the team of Dragonkin Studioscoming from Syracuse, which brings to Mongrels Arena the desire to create an RPG based on combat with typical elements of the role-playing game, moving in an arena whose characteristics change dynamically in each game, thus making the gaming experience always new .
Racoonie: Legend of the Spirits is the name of the Turin startup’s project Dramatic Icebergmade up of a close-knit group of ex-students with the desire to pay homage to the great RPGs of the past who gave them a love for video games during their childhood, trying to improve and grow within the Italian market.
Transmitting values such as inclusion, diversity, empathy, ecology and cultural heritage to children and families, with the aim of cultivating critical thinking and emotional intelligence, is instead the goal of Super Sofia, to team care Mash&Co of Taormina. Finally, inclusion, social impact and accessibility are the values that inspired the Turin team of All new Games who, with the project of the same name, wants to create a game ecosystem to allow developers to create content that can be used by blind, partially sighted and sighted people through integration with proprietary software through a series of plugins accessible for free.