Next Play Romania Kicks Off Friday with 13 Romanian Games
13 video games, three content creators, and only nine spots in the next stage. Next Play Romania, the first national show dedicated to Romanian video games in development, begins on Friday, 11 September. The 13 games starting the competition will be unveiled for the first time during the show, when the developer teams will present their projects to the public and the three content creators involved in the competition: Mădălin Adrian, Werty, and BoboSpider.
The public is invited on Friday, 11 September, at 7:00 PM, on Mădălin Adrian's YouTube channel, for the first Next Play Romania show. The 13 teams will present their games live and try to convince Mădălin Adrian, Werty, and BoboSpider to pick them in the draft. At the end of the evening, each creator will form their own team, choosing three of the 13 projects at the start, and the public will find out which nine games will go further in the competition.
Each of the 13 teams will have only five minutes to convince. The developers will present the game's trailer, the team and the idea behind the project, as well as the current development status. After each pitch, Mădălin Adrian, Werty, and BoboSpider will react live, and finally, each creator will choose three games and form their own team for Next Play Romania.
From that moment, each creator will support the three chosen games and bring them before their own online community, while the developers will continue to work on the projects and respond to challenges in the subsequent stages.
Next Play Romania transforms the game development process into a show that the public can follow over approximately 12 weeks. After the presentation stage, the teams will document the creation process, and the public will have the opportunity to watch how new functionalities and content are implemented in the games. Along the way, the public will vote for the games that go forward, and their number will gradually narrow until the winner of the first edition is announced.
Next Play Romania is organised by the Romanian Game Developers Association (RGDA), Nexus Gaming, and DBO, with the support of Banca Transilvania. The show aims to highlight games developed in Romania even before their launch and to transform the process behind them into an experience that the general public can follow, understand, and influence.
