About Serious Game Festival 2023

:: About Serious Game Festival 2023

The sixth SGF is accepting the developed games in different fields of serious games including education, training, advergames, prosocial behaviors promotion, well-being, healthcare, and etc. up to October 27, 2023.

Like the previous events, the festival section of SeGaP continues to host the developed games on various topics of serious games. Participants with games in different fields of serious games including education, training, advergames, prosocial behaviors promotion, well-being, healthcare, and etc. can submit their entries to the Prize Secretariat. The submitted works will be judged in three stages of production, commercialization and science, then the teams selected for the final will present their achievements and finally the serious game of the year will be introduced. Cash prizes are dedicated to selected games in the following areas:

The serious game of the year will win the Foundation's Grand Prize of 250 million Rials.
The finalists of the festival will receive a total prize of up to 250 million Rials.
Selected serious academic games will receive prizes up to 150 million Rials.
The selected serious game of the international section of the festival will be awarded up to 1500 Euro to non-Iranian game makers.
The games that have participated in previous courses of the event, could participate in the best update section to try again their chance of winning a prize of 100 million Rials.
Selected serious entertainments will receive prizes up to 50 million Rials.
In particular, the chosen ones will be considered to receive commercialization facilities, advertising or game production grants from the foundation.
In particular, DIREC as the event secretariat has prepared prizes of a total of up to 100 million Rials for serious games in the field of Metaverse and NFTs.

It is noteworthy that, as in previous years, the festival section benefits from the support of various agencies on various topics. Collaborative institutions with specific awards dedicated to selected games in their refereeing panel, provide the opportunity for game developers to take advantage of these prizes by submitting games conforming to the priorities set by each institution.

Although the main approach of the festival is devoted to digital serious games, participants can also submit their other entertainment-related productions such as board games or simulators.

Prizes:

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Address

Computer Faculty, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez St, Valiasr Sq, Tehran, Iran