Enter your blockchain game for a chance to win IMGA competition

The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) has announced the launch of a competition challenging blockchain developers to create new games. The winners will receive awards during the Annual Gamefest, set to take place in Manila, Philippines on 25th October.

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IMGA, founded in 2014, is currently the largest mobile games competition in the world. It holds conferences and awards ceremonies in Nanjing, China, Manila, Philippines, Amman, Jordan, Helsinki, Finland and San Francisco, US.

Huntercoin and Cryptokitties

The first game on blockchain was launched in 2014 and called Huntercoin. The most famous blockchain game is Cryptokitties. “We want to find out if blockchain games are any fun,” says IMGA Founder Maarten Noyons.

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“There’s a lot of hype around these games, so it is a good time to look at all these games seriously and to pick out the best games.”

Noyons says his firm is “committed to giving players some solid advice when we announce the nominees and winners”, and adds that “we hope we will find amazing experiences, including great rewards with tradeable assets. Being paid for playing is a dream many people share.”

The competition is on!

The Blockchain Games competition will go live on 21st August. Submissions are to be sent to Blockchain@imgawards.com, with information about the publisher and a short description of the game. Links to trailers and whitepapers (pdf only) may also be included.

The deadline for entries is 15th October. “The key criteria for submission are that the games have to be playable, even if they haven’t fully launched yet and there must be a reward for the player in the form of a crypto asset,” the rules state.

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