Award selections will be conducted according to the following criteria.
| ■Eligible Games: |
All pre-manufactured products regardless of their applicant’s status (professional, amateur, corporate, organization or individual) are eligible for the awards.
Products that are winners or current or past entrants of other contests (except the previous CESA GAME AWARD INDIES) are also eligible for entry as well as fully completed products. However, products also entered in other contests which ban multiple contest entries will be ruled invalid (including products whose copyright has been transferred to the organizers of other contests).
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| ■Product Requirements: |
- All computer entertainment games are eligible, including those operable on consumer-oriented home videogame systems (stationary or portable-type) or PCs regardless of platform type.
- Games must comply with CESA ethics codes.
- Products must be at a playable stage of development.
- All rights related to the game entered must belong to the applicant.
- Entered products/works are limited to those for which the entrant holds full exclusive rights to, including intellectual property rights.
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| ■Applicant Qualification: |
No restrictions are imposed on the age, gender, nationality or status (professional, amateur, corporate or organization) with the exception that all applicants must be current residents of Japan.
Any number of products can be accepted for entry.
※If an applicant is a student, he/she must apply for the “CESA STUDENTS GAME AWARDS” first. Its Grand Prize winner will then be included in the final candidates for the “GAME AWARDS INDIES”
If a group made up of both students and non-students wishes to make an entry, please contact:
“GAME AWARDS” INDIES Sakuhin Boshu-gakari at TEL: 03-3837-5724.
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| ■Application Period: |
April 16 to August 31, 2005.
The required samples/materials must be received within the above stated period. |
| ■Application Procedure: |
Please refer to the CESA website. |
| ■Awards: |
 Grand Prize (1 title) Prize Money: 500,000 yen
Award for Excellence (number unspecified) Prize Money: 50,000 yen |
| ■Award Selection Procedure: |
Several products will be nominated by the judges from the total field of entries during a first-stage evaluation session. Following this, a final judging session will be held to determine the winner of the “Grand Prize”, and other highly judged entries to receive an "Award for Excellence."
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