Christophe De bont 
05/10/2021We’re still recovering from last week’s Belgian Game Awards. There’s no time to catch our breath however, as it’s already time to celebrate a next batch of winners. VAF|GAME has just announced the results of the second funding call of the year. Unfortunately, both applications in the commission serious and educational games weren’t able to Continue reading →
Christophe De bont 16/04/2021The new VAF|GAME commissions had their work cut out for them but they gracefully completed their first mission. The brand new marketing commission also greenlit some projects in its debut performance, resulting in no less than 15 projects getting support in this first call of 2021. It’s good to see that even in these challenging Continue reading →
Christophe De bont 17/02/2021Good news for video game developers that are working on a project that covers sustainable or humanitarian themes. The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation has opened its tender for audiovisual support (link in Dutch) to include video games for the first time. The focus is on serious game productions with Continue reading →
Christophe De bont 11/12/2020Yes, why!? It’s not that you don’t know about it. We hammer you over the head with it every single year. Still, in the past five years there haven’t been more than three Belgian applications per call. Just last year, there was € 3,78 million to be distributed, but there seems to be no growing Continue reading →
Christophe De bont 06/12/2019Earlier this week, VAF/GAME announced the results of the final funding call of the year. True to the holiday spirit the commissions wanted to give all the projects the funding they requested, but unfortunately Santa Claus doesn’t fund game developers. Instead, the commissions decided to spend every penny of the remaining budget on the following Continue reading →
Christophe De bont 27/11/2019VAF/GAME will probably be the first public institution our local game studios turn to in order to secure funding. While they go a long way to support promising Flemish games, don’t forget there’s more funding options out there, such as the Creative Europe Media grant. WHAT? The European Commission has published a new call (link Continue reading →
