Microsoft aounces Dream.Build.Play 2017 indie game development contest

This year’s Dream.Build.Play contest is back! Dream.Build.Play is one of the long-ruing indie game development contest. Developers need to build a game and submit it by December 31 in one of the following four categories to take part in this contest. They can also use middleware like Unity, Cocos, GameMaker, or Microsoft’s technologies like DirectX to build the game.

• Cloud-powered game – Grand Prize: $100,000 USD: You need to build a game that uses Azure Cloud Services on the backend, like Service Fabric, CosmosDB, containers, VMs, storage and Analytics. Judges will give higher scores to games that use multiple services in creative ways — and will award bonus points for Mixer integration.
• PC game – Grand Prize: $50,000 USD: You need to create a best UWP game with whatever technology you want and publish it in the Windows Store. Judges will look favorably on games that add Windows 10 features such as Cortana or Inking because we really want to challenge you.
• Mixed Reality game – Grand Prize: $50,000: You need to build a volumetric experience that takes advantage of 3D content in a virtual space. You’ll need to create your game for Windows Mixed Reality, but you can use technology like Unity.
• Console game – Grand Prize: $25,000: You need to build a UWP game that incorporates Xbox Live Creators Program with at least Xbox Live presence. Consideration will be given for games that incorporate more Xbox Live services such as leaderboards and statistics.

Contest is already open for registration, you can register for it here. Game submission period closes by December 31st and the wiers will be aounced in March 2018.

Learn more about this contest here.