We are excited to announce the successful applicants for this year’s Interactive Development Fund.
The programme supports concept development of original, narrative-focused, interactive and games content delivered on any platform (including mobile, online, console as well as virtual, augmented and mixed reality).
The funding provided will allow the teams to develop an interactive concept, including creative material such as story and design, that may form the basis of a playable prototype suitable for accessing the appropriate marketplace to seek project financing.
Returning to Birdland
Company: Overactive Imagination & Frank Film
Applicant: Nadia Maxwell
Type: Virtual Reality
Logline/ Synopsis: It’s the bird’s point of view of Aotearoa over the last 700 years. In awe, and in a lifelike experience, we explore a paradise before humans. In horror, we meet the predators the humans bring. In hope, we’re alongside the survivors, clawing a comeback.
Minimum Mass
Company: Like Amber
Applicant: Raqi Syed
Type: Virtual Reality
Logline/ Synopsis: A young woman is convinced her children are being born into another dimension. But who will believe her?
Dolly
Company: Little Lost Fox
Applicant: Blake Wood
Type: Game
Logline/ Synopsis: Dolly tells the story of a young girl coming to terms with her life, her illness, and her eventual death. Journey through her mind, piece together scattered memories, and discover the truth.
Project Tapestry
Applicant: Joshua Boggs
Type: Game
Logline/ Synopsis: Tapestry is a time-manipulating, turn based RPG about predestination; woven on a tapestry that depicts the future.
Native
Company: Wrestler
Applicant: Ben Forman
Type: Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality
Logline/ Synopsis: Native is a magical interactive world for kids, explored through various platforms, from video to virtual and augmented reality. Told through the eyes of New Zealand’s native animals, coming together and discovering threats to the environment, ecosystem and ultimately their survival.
Future Back
Company: Mixt
Applicant: Jessica Manins
Type: Virtual Reality
Logline/ Synopsis: In a technology driven future an escape into Virtual Reality could change the past.
Guardian
Applicant: Maru Nihoniho
Type: Interactive Novel
Logline/ Synopsis: A guardian sworn to protect her people against the horrors of a world grown wild in the wake of civilisation’s fall.
The Green Fairy and the Goblin Kingdom
Company: Conical
Applicant: Alejandro Davila
Type: Virtual Reality
Logline/ Synopsis: The Green Fairy discovers more about her past as she travels to the perilous Goblin Kingdom to get to the bottom of the Fairy Catcher’s plans.
Wake
Company: Wrestler
Applicant: Kat Lintott
Type: Game, Virtual Reality
Logline/ Synopsis: A girl is about to be born but, first she must journey through the 'landscape of the feminine’, awakening and embodying powerful feminine archetypes before the final passage of birth is revealed.
Golden Threads
Applicant: Allan (Haoyu) Xia
Type: Game
Logline/ Synopsis: Golden Threads is an edutainment narrative adventure game based on the lives of early Chinese immigrants and true historical events.
Shelf Life
Applicant: Thomas Barrer
Type: Game
Logline/ Synopsis: After experiencing an accident, a non-binary art student begins exploring parallel dimensions, and fighting monstrous manifestations of their internal struggles. They must balance these otherworldly experiences with their domestic life, relationships and schoolwork.
Urupa
Applicant: Mohsin Ali
Type: Virtual Reality
Logline/ Synopsis: After accidentally releasing the spirit in his great uncle's coffin, Hemi must traverse the memories of his Tipuna to uncover and solve what is preventing them from reaching the afterlife.
House of Wonders
Applicant: Jess Feast
Type: Virtual Reality
Logline/ Synopsis: Do we make reality, or does it make us?