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Konami is Inviting Indie Developers to Make New Games Based on Some of Its Classic Series

IbizaPocholo

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Konami has announced an indie game contest that actively asks small developers to make games based on some of its classic series, including Gradius, Ganbare Goemon, and many more.

Konami's Action & Shooting Game Contest asks indie creators to plan and develop new action games and shooters based on past Konami titles. The rules allow for creators to make remakes or sequels, they can pick out a single character or mechanic from a past title, or even change or combine genres that may not have been in the originals. Through the collaboration of indie creators and Konami, these new works could potentially become commercial products.

A video outlining the contest was published by Konami. This contest is sponsored by Konami and held in cooperation with Shueisha Game Creators Camp, a project to support game developers. The contest began September 30 and will run until January 6, 2022.

Konami's specified 80 different games for creators to reimagine, including games from Gradius, Star Soldier, Twinbee, Ganbare Goemon, Knightmare and others. The full list can be found at the bottom of the official entry page (in Japanese).

The grand prize for the contest is 2 million yen (about $18,000 USD), and Konami will offer to publish works that can be commercialized. In addition to investing up to 30 million yen ($270,000 USD) in development funds for commercialized projects, Konami will provide supervision, production advice and support regarding localization, promotion and development equipment.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
Sounds like they aren't just outsourcing games to known indie companies, but really really really small no-name companies with Bob and Charlie in their basement.
 

lh032

I cry about Xbox and hate PlayStation.
Sounds like they aren't just outsourcing games to known indie companies, but really really really small no-name companies with Bob and Charlie in their basement.
Konami is playing the one in a million jackpot game.

Just threw the IP around and one of them is going to be successful lmao
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
Oh shit. Someone get on it!

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Konami has announced an indie game contest that actively asks small developers to make games based on some of its classic series, including Gradius, Ganbare Goemon, and many more.

Konami's Action & Shooting Game Contest asks indie creators to plan and develop new action games and shooters based on past Konami titles. The rules allow for creators to make remakes or sequels, they can pick out a single character or mechanic from a past title, or even change or combine genres that may not have been in the originals. Through the collaboration of indie creators and Konami, these new works could potentially become commercial products.

A video outlining the contest was published by Konami. This contest is sponsored by Konami and held in cooperation with Shueisha Game Creators Camp, a project to support game developers. The contest began September 30 and will run until January 6, 2022.

Konami's specified 80 different games for creators to reimagine, including games from Gradius, Star Soldier, Twinbee, Ganbare Goemon, Knightmare and others. The full list can be found at the bottom of the official entry page (in Japanese).

The grand prize for the contest is 2 million yen (about $18,000 USD), and Konami will offer to publish works that can be commercialized. In addition to investing up to 30 million yen ($270,000 USD) in development funds for commercialized projects, Konami will provide supervision, production advice and support regarding localization, promotion and development equipment.
You can close and they have their winner already, it's Unmetal

A better Metal Gear than Mg1-2 and also made me laugh as shit
 

NeoIkaruGAF

Gold Member
Well, this is exactly what some people have been asking for ever since Konami dropped the ball on their main IPs. People should be happy now.
 

KOMANI

KOMANI
it's funny how this news finally was picked up cause it was announced a month ago.


you know Inafune is working on another Mega Man clone too are should we wait for a month before news outlets pick that up too?
 
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