Microsoft Dream Build Play 2017 Challenge

Organisation : Microsoft
Contest Name : Dream Build Play 2017 Challenge
Application Last Date : December 31st, 2017
Applicable For : Over 18s
Contest Details : https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/
Home Page : https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/

Microsoft Dream Build Play Challenge

Registration has opened for $250,000 Microsoft contest to create playable UWP games. Although similar to previous student-only competitions this one isn’t restricted to students, although it is for over 18s, and even professional game developers are eligible.

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While you can enter a game in multiple categories you can only win one of the four prizes. The Last Date for Game submission is December 31st, 2017.

The rules stipulate that all team members must register and that residents of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria are prohibited, as are employees of Microsoft or its subsidiaries and their immediate family or household members.

Entry Requirements

An entry to the competition needs to have :
** Game Title
** Windows Store ID – entry must be submitted and approved in the store, but does not need to be publicly available
** Game Description – up to a maximum of 2,000 characters.
** If pre-existing source code is incorporated into the Game, then this pre-existing source code must be clearly identified in the Game Description and must not infringe on any third-party rights
** Game Icon in .jpg format – maximum file size 2MB.
** Five Screen Shots in .jpg format – which capture the play and style of the Game as accurately as possible, maximum file size 2MB
** Game Video – which depicts the Game’s functionality and gameplay and is hosted on a publicly accessible website
** Business Plan – up to a maximum of 6,000 characters

Eligibility

What Constitutes An Eligible Entry? :
To be eligible for judging an Entry must meet the following content / technical requirements
** your Entry must be in English; and
** your Entry must be your own original work; and
** your Entry cannot have been selected as a winner in any other Challenge; and
** you must have obtained any and all consents, approvals or licenses required for you to submit your Entry; and

** your Entry does not include a previously submitted Game that was / is actively under consideration by Microsoft or a Microsoft agent for a publishing contract, or a Game that has been awarded a publishing agreement by Microsoft or a Microsoft agent, or any Game that has won a prize in previous Dream.Build.Play Challenge.

An Entry may NOT contain, as determined by us, in our sole and absolute discretion, any content that :
** is sexually explicit, unnecessarily violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group; profane or pornographic;
** promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, or any political agenda;
** is obscene or offensive;
** defames, misrepresents or contains disparaging remarks about other people or companies;
** contains content which infringes intellectual property rights of others;
** communicates messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or good will to which we wish to associate; and/or violates any law;
** contains trademarks, logos or trade dress, without express written consent of the rights holder(s) or a reasonable apparent lawful bias for your use;

** contains copyrighted materials owned by others (including photographs, sculptures, paintings, music and other works of art of images published on or in websites, television, movies or other media) either without express consent of the rights holder(s) or a reasonable apparent lawful bias for your use;

** contains materials embodying the names, likenesses, voices, or other indicia identifying any person (other than a member of your family or community for whom you have received consent) including, without limitation, celebrities and/or other public or private figures, living or dead either without express written consent of the rights holder(s) or a reasonably apparent lawful basis for your use(s);

** contains look-alikes of celebrities or other public or private figures, living or dead either without express written consent of the rights holder(s) or a reasonably apparent lawful basis for your use(s);
** contains packaging or building (exteriors/interiors) owned by others.