~ After reading the Cultural Test Points system. I actually don't think it would be a huge problem to meet the criteria. You even get points for making sure your staff are mostly British, which could help make a lot of outsourcing from across seas unattractive. Which will help British artists. I even worked out that you…
A quick look at the "list of productions which have received final certification as a British Film from the UK Film Council, between 1 April 2007 – 28 February 2010 under the Cultural Test.'" should relieve fears of having games set in the UK with British lead characters - Slumdog Millionaire Hellboy II: The Golden Army…
From what I've read the projects that receive this funding will need to reflect a British outlook, its a points based system like the one for film production. If it's set in Britain and has British characters you will get tax relief, if not, you won't. It worked for low budget films quite well but I can't see it working in…
Edit - http://www.develop-online.net/news/34291/Has-Labour-paved-the-way-for-GTA-London Its not set in stone about the British criteria, this is from develop magazine... "Though the exact criteria of the tax break requirements is yet to be decided, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has indicated that it will…
wow that seems to be a pretty narrow criteria easterislandnick. I knew there would be a catch:( What there needs to be is a comprehensive system of tax relief for British companies so we can compete on an even playing field
World War 1 and 2 games would certainly qualify, not sure if we've had enough of those already though. I really enjoyed The Getaway when it first came out, enjoyed it even more because I was living in France and needed my British fix.
I really hope they do something like this. So tired of other countries completely suppressing their culture, accents, languages, architecture, ethnic types, etc and catering to the American market. STALKER was russian as all get out, and I loved it for it. I want to see more games like that. It kills me to see Crytek just…
Britain definitely needs a game boost from when it was Amiga, Amstrad and C64. Still lots of great independent companies left like Team 7, Frontier dev. Lionhead. Shame Bulldog aren't around, would have loved another Syndicate. Dreamer, i agree, there are lots of the criteria a company could meet. If a British company…