Dunedin's CODE goes live for those who are game

Wed, 24 Jun 2020

Dunedin's Centre of Digital Excellence, launched eight months ago with the injection of $10 million in seed capital from government's provincial growth fund, is fast tracking its funding process and made its first funding tranche of $700,000 available yesterday. Tim Ponting, of the CODE working group and a board member of the New Zealand Game Developers Association, said current economic conditions created through the pandemic had brought the timing for developing and launching the funding programme forward. There were three funding types...

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