in cooperation with:

PLAY15 is supported by: Amt Medien in der Senatskanzlei Hamburg, Medienstiftung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, SAE Institute Hamburg, HAW Hamburg – Fakultät Design, Medien und Information mit dem Masterstudiengang Games, BürgerStiftung Hamburg, Joachim Herz Stiftung, Code Week Award, BIU – Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware e.V., Bigpoint, Bücherhallen Hamburg, Hoeb4U, Alsterdamm School of Visual Arts, Handelskammer Hamburg, siebold / hamburg messebau GmbH, Terrace Hill, K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie

in cooperation with: JUGEND HACKT Nord, Volkshochschule Hamburg

The registration and submission for the Creative Gaming Award is taking place online via award.play15.de. All data, videos and other submission materials will be sent to Creative Gaming via mail on CD, DVD or USB-stick (address: Creative Gaming e.V., Wiesendamm 59, D-22305, Hamburg, Germany). Alternatively it is possible to make the material accessible via download-link. The submission is only complete and eligible for nomination if all required fields in the submission form have been filled out and the material has been made accessible to Creative Gaming via Upload, link or data storage medium. When all materials have been submitted, a participation confirmation will be sent to you via e-mail.

Deadlines 2015

Start of Submission: April, 15^th 2015
Deadline: July, 15^th 2015 (00:00 Uhr MEZ), (for mail: the date of the stamp counts)

General Requirements

• You produced all contents by yourself and didn’t violate others’ rights. You did not use property of others (music, pictures, etc.). If you did, you have got all necessary opt-ins.
• By participating you give us the permission to present your work during the PLAY15 festival (September 15^th-19^th 2015).
• The Creative Gaming Award is a Europe-wide contest, the developers principal residence has to be in Europe.
• Your data storage mediums will remain in the property of Creative Gaming (Please do not send originals!)
• You agree on being contacted via e-mail concerning the PLAY15 festival and your submission.
• In case of a nomination it is required that at least one representative of your submitted project comes to Hamburg during the PLAY15 festival. If you do not send a delegate the nomination can be denied by Creative Gaming. Another project can be nominated instead then.
• In case of nomination or reward, your submitted material will be used for the project websites (play15.de, creative-gaming.eu), published on Youtube, as the case may be used for press releases and presented publically during the exhibition at PLAY15 in Hamburg. You are being asked to prepare the material accurately (pictures, sound, texts).

Information for submitting institutions, developers, others:

The goal of the Creative Gaming Award is to honor creative games and concepts, which need to be made public. The jury evaluates the submitted projects using several factors.

Data Usage

The organizational team of Creative Gaming will take the security of your data very seriously. We strictly work by German data protection standards. Personal data is only requested if needed for the award. Your data will never be given to other persons or institutions.

Awarding Ceremony

The awarding ceremony takes place on September 19^th during the PLAY15 festival in Hamburg (15^th -19^th September).
Two members of each nominated project will be invited to Hamburg for the entire weekend. Travel and Accommodation costs are being covered.