Game Developer Maximizes Success With Grant Funding

Michael Long of Foolish Mortals games has successfully applied for a few of our grants: the Showcase or Sell Travel, Marketing and Digital Game Development grants. 

With the funding he was able to attend the PAX West Game Convention in Seattle, hire Bamboo Shoots to create a high-quality trailer for his game, Kaiju Wars and create the WWII strategy game, Real-Time General. Here’s what he had to say about the funding:

“So Creative Saskatchewan helped us in multiple ways. For Kaiju Wars, we applied for multiple grants from them. We applied for a market travel grant (now called the Showcase or Sell Travel Grant) where we actually went down to Seattle and presented Kaiju Wars at PAX West. So that’s a very big video game convention and one of the largest in the world.”

“We also got another marketing grant for Kaiju Wars that allowed us to create a live-action trailer and that was shot here in Saskatoon by a company called Bamboo Shoots. The trailer turned out really well, so we shot that live action trailer. We hired a video editor, a scriptwriter, capture the gameplay footage and a good trailer is essential for any game.That’s like the first thing that you see when you go to the online store pages. You see that trailer and if it’s doesn’t catch someone’s interest in the 1st 2 seconds, they click away. So that trailers got to be really good. It’s got to be really, really polished. And I think it is. So thanks to Creative Sasaktchewan One for letting us make the trailer the best it could be.”

Thanks for the shoutout, Michael! We’re so glad you are happy with your results! Check out all of Foolish Mortals’ Games here: http://www.foolish-mortals.net/ 

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