{"id":117643,"date":"2022-11-16T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.game.de\/?p=117643"},"modified":"2022-11-16T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T10:31:11","slug":"germany-increases-games-funding-to-70-million-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/germany-increases-games-funding-to-70-million-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany increases games funding to 70 million euros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berlin, 16 November 2022 <\/strong>\u2013 Good news for games companies who are developing games in Germany: the budget committee of the German Bundestag has increased the national budget for games support in 2023 by some 20 million euros, to a total of 70 million euros. This decision follows on the great initial success of the funding programme, which has attracted strong demand from game companies since its launch in 2019. The result has been a major upswing, with the number of games companies increasing by 26 per cent within the two-year period since 2020. The number of people employed by developers and publishers has risen by 12 per cent during the same period. This growth has exhausted the annual budget of 50 million euros available to date, so an increase in funding was necessary to continue supporting game development in 2023. game \u2013 the German Games Industry Association forecasts that the funding programme will require 100 million euros annually in the coming years. The possibility of initiating a tax break model \u2013 something offered by many internationally successful games locations \u2013 is additionally to be studied.<\/p>\n\n

Felix Falk, Managing Director of game: \u2018The provision of this additional games funding sends a powerful signal. It will enable Germany to continue its pursuit of becoming one of the world\u2019s top locations for game development. With these steps, the German Bundestag and the federal government are renewing their promise to make Germany a leading market for games on the international stage.\u2019<\/p>\n\n

game \u2013 the German Games Industry Association <\/strong><\/h2>\n

We are the association of the German games industry. Our members include developers, publishers and many other games industry actors such as esports event organisers, educational establishments and service providers. As a joint organiser of gamescom, we are responsible for the world\u2019s biggest event for computer and video games. We are an expert partner for media and for political and social institutions, and answer questions relating to market development, games culture and media literacy. Our mission is to make Germany the best games location.<\/p>\n\n

Press contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Puppe
\ngame \u2013 Verband der deutschen Games-Branche e. V.
\nFriedrichstra\u00dfe 165
\n10117 Berlin
\nGermany
\nPhone: +49 (0)30 2408779-20
\nEmail: martin.puppe@game.de<\/a>
\n<\/u>www.game.de<\/a>
\n<\/u>Twitter: @game_verband
\nFacebook.com\/game.verband
\nInstagram: game_verband<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Berlin, 16 November 2022 \u2013 Good news for games companies who are developing games in Germany: the budget committee of the German Bundestag has increased the national budget for games support in 2023 by some 20 million euros, to a total of 70 million euros. This decision follows on the great initial success of the funding programme, which has attracted strong demand from game companies since its launch in 2019. The result has been a major upswing, with the number of games companies increasing by 26 per cent within the two-year period since 2020. The number of people employed by <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":117398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117649,"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117643\/revisions\/117649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game.destination-design.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}