- 14 games by grant holders on the Games Ground Exhibition Floor
- Supporting programme with panel discussion, meet-up and pitch competition
- 4 hours of live game streaming with Redheadbegins
- Let's Plays on the Social Stage with Dennsen86 & PixelViet
Berlin, 3 November 2025: Press Start: GamesFounding Grant will be presenting 14 games at the Games Ground festival in Berlin from 13 to 16 November. Content creator Redheadbegins, will be showcasing many grant holder projects on display in two Twitch livestreams from the festival grounds on 14 and 15 November. The audience can also look forward to a dedicated ‘Press Start’ stage programme in the form of a panel discussion on starting a business in the games industry (13 November, 10 a.m.), a pitch competition (13 November, 6:30 p.m.) and Let’s Plays on the Social Stage with content creators Dennsen86 and PixelViet (15 November, 5 p.m.). A meet-up in the form of the ‘Press Start Mixer’ on the exhibition floor (13 November, 5 p.m.) will also offer trade visitors the opportunity to talk directly to the grant holders and the team from the Foundation for Digital Games Culture, which is responsible for implementing the scholarship programme.
The following grant projects can be played on the Games Ground Exhibition Floor from 13 to 16 November:
- Bot slash Bot by Traveller’s Box
- Cosmo Drill by Morse Morse Games
- Frieda is Changing by Mucks! Games
- Fuhon by Twinleaf Studio
- Replicore by Amberdive Interactive
- Garden Ink by Kranich
- Hieronymus by Rhenus Vina Musica
- The Threads Between Us by Waldkind Studio
- LEVIATHAN by LEVEL BLUE
- Monstersongs – The VR Rock Musical by Monstersongs Interactive
- Portal to the Cosmobeat by 4bpm
- Seaward by THE ROOF Interactive
- Tile by Dobiq Games
- Urbanist by Halfcooked Games
Starting at 10 a.m. on 13 November, the panel discussion “Daring to “Press Start”: Insights into Founding a Game Studio in 2025,” scholarship recipients Mareike Rescheleit (Project Dragonfly), Denise Koch (Monstersongs Interactive), Sara Shabani (Darya Studios) and Sophie de Frenne (Rainbow Vision Studio) will discuss what it means to develop a game in the German games industry today while also building ones own company. At the pitch competition taking place on the same day, starting at 6:30 p.m., five teams from the scholarship programme will present their game ideas to a jury of experts including Kerryn Frean (Fireshine Games) and Jan Halwe (ByteRockers’ Games). Nandita Wegehaupt, Managing Director of the Foundation for Digital Games Culture, will open both programme items with a welcoming address.
“Many participants in the ‘Press Start’ programme are currently in a decisive phase of the scholarship, as in addition to progressing with their own game projects, they also have to complete the associated founding process by the end of the year,” says Nandita Wegehaupt, commenting on the status of the grant programme. “As programme managers, we are therefore all the more delighted that the Games Ground festival enables us to give additional visibility not only to the games, but also to the people behind the games and start-up projects.”
