SICKPROD OPEN CALL 2025
SickProd is back! Are you a playful artist, a game maker or a creative coder based in Overijssel, looking for a community, mentors and material support? This is for you!
SickProd is a mentorship program from Sickhouse, supporting the making of an interactive project that will be showcased at The Overkill Festival. You will get the support of professional mentors, visit exhibitions, join meet-ups and festivals and meet other professionals and studios from around the world. Every month you will organise a game night with your selection of playful projects, you will get the chance to present the progress of your work and collect feedback from different crowds. In November 2025, you will present your project at The Overkill festival.
SickProd was created to foster the game maker community of our region and create a chain of opportunities for local young talents within an international network.
In 2023 we supported the development and release of Data Garden, a narrative game from Shaman Garage, young studio from Enschede (NL) and Madrid (SP). Together we went to A MAZE, in Berlin, INDIGO in Utrecht, Now Play This in London, Dutch Game Awards in Hilversum and many other places.
TO APPLY is super easy!
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Add a portfolio (or some links), a CV and a motivation later.
If you have questions you can mail Marie at marie@sickhouse.nl or join our Discord channel to meet the community.
What we ask from you/ your studio :
- Being available for meetings, presentations, makers meet-up and excursions.
- Hosting game nights once a month
- Developing and presenting an interactive and playful project at The Overkill
- Joining the playful community of Enschede
What we give you access to :
- Professional support from playful curator Zuraida Buter and the Sickhouse team.
- Regular Test / Feedback sessions with diverse crowds
- A monthly fee of 250€ between February and November 2025
- Access to Sickhouse material and facilities
- A production fee (tbd) to present the gaming experience in November at The Overkill festival 2025.
- Access to an international community of playful artists and game makers.
Selection Process:
The selection committee is led by Sickhouse co-directors Marie Janin and is constituted of Co-director Aike Lütkemöller, mentor Zuraida Buter and alumni and colliders coordinator Pablo San Gregorio.
The committee is considering the playfulness of the work, the implication of the artist/maker in the local scene, the potential of development of the project.
The committee will study all the applications and discuss in a meeting the relevance of their 3 favourite choices, based on the criteria mentioned above.
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DEADLINE : 10-01-2025
SELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT : 15-01-2025
FIRST MEETING : Global Game Jam, 24 to 26 JANUARY 2025