Screen - Games Development Closing 22 October 2025

Games Development is Screen Tasmania’s program for the development or production of interactive screen projects - narrative and non-narrative - including games and apps for all platforms. The program aims to enable applicants to either release a finished product or attract further development and/or production investment from the marketplace.

Games Development offers funding across two streams.

• Conceptual Design offers a maximum non-recoupable grant of $20,000 per project for the development of concept/scoping documents and prototypes and/or the production of proof-of-concept or beta content.
  
  
• Production and Release offers a maximum recoupable grant of $50,000 per project where that project is 'production-ready' and its potential end user or target market and revenue streams can be confidently quantified. This cannot represent more than 50% of the development costs of a project. The value of in-kind services can be included in the applicant's finance plan.

For applicants requiring support greater than $50,000 they will need to apply via the Production Support program.

We cannot fund:

• The purchase of equipment
• The purchase of software (with exception of Developer Kits)
• Projects that solely reformat traditional media content; or 
• Games, apps or websites which solely provide:
  • Utilities or services;
  • Education, or
  • Information.

Projects must be substantially produced in Tasmania.

Screen Tasmania does not fund projects retrospectively.

Screen Tasmania reserve the right to vary these Guidelines as necessary. In exceptional circumstances, we also reserve the right to set aside some of the guideline requirements.

To be eligible to apply, applicants must familiarise themselves with the following guidelines:

• General Guidelines and Terms of Trade
• Games Development Guidelines  
• Glossary of Terms

To clarify any questions regarding the application or application process please ensure you speak to a Screen Tasmania project officer to discuss your project before submitting.

Contact details can be found on the Screen Tasmania website.

When using our online application portal (powered by SmartyGrants) please consider the following points:

• SmartyGrants autosaves your application when you change pages. We recommend manually saving regularly as you complete individual pages. The system will time out after 20 minutes of inactivity.
• You can save your incomplete application, log out and return to complete or update at any time before the Round closes.
• Questions marked with a red asterisk are mandatory. You will not be able to submit your application until they are answered.
• Once you press submit, the application will be locked and forwarded to Screen Tasmania and you will no longer be able to make changes. Should you have new information which was unavailable before the closing of the round you will need to contact the relevant Project Officer to re-open the application at their discretion.
• SmartyGrants is unable to read the information contained in uploaded documents. This is why, at times, you will be asked to provide similar information within the SmartyGrants form. This is so the data can be captured and processed.