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OK Instant Games Cup. Contest for HTML5 games



For eight years, more than 150 thousand people around the world took part in the championships for IT specialists organized by Mail.Ru Group. Each year, the company holds more than 15 competitions in various fields of industry. The experience and achievements gained in the IT championships are highly valued in the market - many participants of the competition aroused the interest of employers and investors after the publication of their projects and articles on various specialized resources.

Recently, the number of players on various platforms, especially mobile, including in social networks, is actively growing. And we are pleased to announce that the management of IT-championships together with the social network Odnoklassniki and the investment unit of Mail.Ru Games Ventures invites game developers to take part in a new competition for developing HTML5 mobile games. Welcome to OK Instant Games Cup !

Brief description of major events
  1. The Russian Code Cup is one of the largest sports programming championships in Russia for the fastest minds, where you can test your algorithmic skills in competition with the strongest rivals. More than 7,000 participants annually. This year the competition has not yet started, the announcement will be soon.
  2. Russian AI Cup is an international competition in artificial intelligence programming. Wide geography, at least 2000 participants annually.
  3. Mini Ai Cups is a platform with mini-competitions on artificial intelligence related to writing bots for games. Together with the Russian AI Cup, participants annually send more than 5,000 solutions. Registration is currently open. More on Habré .
  4. ML Boot Camp is a platform for solving problems in machine learning and data analysis. Over 9000 active users. The next competition will be held in October.
  5. HighLoad Cup is the first competition for developers of high-load systems. In the past, the championship was attended by over 300 people. This year is scheduled for November, take a vacation. Read more about the championship here .
  6. Technocup - Programming Olympiad for schoolchildren, winners and prize-winners receive privileges for admission to MGTU. N. E. Bauman, MIPT and other higher education institutions throughout Russia. Every year 8000 schoolchildren take part in the competition.
  7. Russian Design Cup is a championship for both experienced and novice designers and interface designers. Held since 2013. More details .


Why choose HTML5?


HTML5 has become very popular in recent years. This technology has many advantages. For example, applications built on it do not need to be installed on devices. A user simply needs to install one application, say, a social network in which he can communicate, view the news feed and play mobile games written in all the same HTML5.
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Most of the development teams of such games face the key problem of developing their products - marketing, since the competition on gaming platforms that support HTML5 is quite high. Classmates try to support game developers, allowing them to promote applications on their gaming platform for free. Since the beginning of 2018, mobile game developers on social networks have earned more than 100 million rubles, and over the last year the number of game launches on Odnoklassniki mobile platform has doubled to 350 million per day.

Nominations


You can take part in the championship in two categories: Pro and New Star.

Pro nomination is designed for experienced developers and studios. They can port their own games from other platforms to Odnoklassniki. The three best games will get free traffic to a certain number of game installations on the social network:

  1. the winner will receive 1 million installations;
  2. second place - 500,000 installations;
  3. third place - 250,000 installations.

In the category of New Star will participate newcomers to game development and teams that have not yet published their games on social networks. Three winners will receive cash prizes:

  1. 300 000 rubles for the first place;
  2. 200 000 rubles - for the second;
  3. 100 000 rubles - for the third.

In addition, the winners will be able to consult the team of the investment division of Mail.Ru Games Ventures on the further development of the game project, and the authors of the best games will have a unique opportunity to present their project and attract investments from Mail.Ru Games Ventures.

The mechanics of the competition and the condition of participation


You can participate in the competition, both individually and in teams. Mobile HTML5 games that were not previously published on the Odnoklassniki gaming platform are allowed to participate.

To participate in the championship, you need to register on the OK Instant Games Cup portal, add your game and provide key information on it. Add a link to the downloaded game in the application on the tournament website before the deadline for receiving applications.

We will award the authors of the top 10 games of the championship as a result of a jury vote, representatives of the gaming industry and venture investors Mail.Ru Games Ventures in the office of Mail.Ru Group.

schedule


  1. From September 3 to October 21 - accepting applications on the competition website;
  2. October 23 - announcement of winners and prize-winners;
  3. October 26 - rewarding at the Mail.Ru Group office.

Useful materials


If you are just starting to create a game or are preparing it for publication on the Odnoklassniki gaming platform, then these links will definitely be useful to you:

  1. Sample HTML application .
  2. What is the application, its parameters and download methods?

In addition, we recommend to watch the video posted on the competition website.

Community


Any questions? We will be happy to answer them. Join the chat and group competition.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/422247/

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