{"id":94435,"date":"2016-06-09T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T09:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94435"},"modified":"2016-06-09T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T09:21:11","slug":"polish-government-and-cd-projekt-red-create-r300-million-gaming-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/94435-polish-government-and-cd-projekt-red-create-r300-million-gaming-fund","title":{"rendered":"Polish government and CD Projekt Red create R300 million gaming fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CD Projekt Red and the Polish government have teamed up to form a <strong>\u20ac18 million (R300\u00a0million)<\/strong> fund to help bolster local European game developers.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 fund will primarily be used to help with \u201cindustrial research and experimental development or experimental development only\u201d, reported <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/06\/05\/polands-new-20-million-rd-funds-goal-breed-a-game-development-juggernaut\/\" target=\"_blank\">GamesBeat<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Developers must also currently be working with a budget of between <strong>0.5 million zloty<\/strong> <strong>(R194,000)<\/strong> to <strong>20 million zloty\u00a0(R78,000,000)<\/strong> and a timeline of up to three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2014\u2019s Polish Games Treaty initiative was the starting point of our common effort to achieve better economical conditions enabling the local industry to make higher quality games,\u201d\u00a0 said Stan Just, R&amp;D manager at CD Projekt Red.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to catch up with booming gaming markets in [the US]\u00a0or Canada, which are offering a wide range of financial support instruments to nurture the sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to make it as a game developer in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/93355-how-to-make-it-as-a-game-developer-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to make it as a game developer in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is how the weak Rand is killing South African hardware\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/94365-this-is-how-the-weak-rand-is-killing-south-african-hardware.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is how the weak Rand is killing South African hardware<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 8 times game studios nailed South African accents in games\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/94321-8-times-game-studios-nailed-south-african-accents-in-games.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">8 times game studios nailed South African accents in games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD Projekt Red and the Polish government have teamed up to form a \u20ac18 million fund to help bolster local European game developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":84167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[31,2122,447,19283,19285,19281],"class_list":["post-94435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features","tag-active","tag-cd-projekt-red","tag-development","tag-fund","tag-investment","tag-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94471,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94435\/revisions\/94471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}