The Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) funds 55 media products with 5.8 mil €, of which 655,000 € go to 7 game and XR products. Among them are Code: 9 by Riding Turtles, Vivid by Team Nava and Actrio Studio's DeMaré.
The first round of media funding of Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung for Saxonia-Anhalt, Saxonia and Thuringia in 2026 has been released, and a swath of games and VR projects are among the funded titles. All in all, 55 movies, TV series, XR projects and games receive 5.8 million € in total. Of that, 655,000.00 € are going to game and XR projects specifically.
The biggest sum of this round in games and XR goes to Actrio Studio for DeMaré that had already received project development funding by MDM in 2024, as well as funding from the FFF Bayern in 2025.
Among the funded projects is also Code: 9 by Riding Turtles from Leipzig, in innovative detective game using LLM as text parsers, as well as the biology game Vivid by Team Nava, from Leipzig as well.
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