IT Territory in conjunction with the Casual Games Association announced today that the CGA Innovate 2007 Contest will make use of over $200,000 USD to recognize and encourage innovation inside the casual games space. Casual Games Association Innovate 2007 will be held on October 17-19, 2007, in Kyiv. All independent game developers are encouraged to participate.
Innovate 2007 is designed to publicly recognize and inspire game developers to create innovative game products. Developers and development studios will submit beta games and innovative game prototypes for judging by independent judges.
To ensure that independent game developers are able to fulfill their dreams to complete their games for distribution, IT Territory will be providing publishing arrangements for award winners.
Main Category - Open to all independent development studios. Game will be privately presented by development studio to a panel of independent judges. Winners will receive funds to complete their game and publishing support.
Special Nominations - Open to all professional developers, including those who are part of a larger studio. Game prototypes will be publicly displayed to a panel of independent judges and all conference attendees.
“In evaluating the needs of developers, we have made the contest submission process as easy as possible”, said Alisa Chumachenko, Marketing Director of IT Territory Casual, the leading Russian publisher, “IT Territory is committed to providing additional resources and services to ensure that the contest award winners are able to complete their games and secure distribution.”
For more information on Casual Games Association Innovate 2007 please visit:
http://innovate2007.casualgamesassociation.org/

About IT-Territory Casual
IT Territory is Russia’s leading publisher of online and casual games. It was founded in 2004, and today it has two in-house game studios and the biggest distribution network in all of Eastern Europe. IT Territory has launched 13 successful massive multiplayer online games and created two game portals, one of which, Games.Mail.Ru, is the biggest in the .RU zone. IT Territory has a total of 3,000,000 registered users playing its games. The company deals with developing, producing, distributing and publishing games in Russia and the CIS. It also works with the top game studios in Eastern Europe and with some American publishers.  http://www.it-territory.ru/
About the Casual Games Association
The Casual Games Association is an international organization with a membership of more than 4,000 gaming executives, publishers and developers. Dedicated to promoting casual games for general consumers and providing educational resources for game development, the association hosts annual conferences in Seattle, Kyiv and Amsterdam, publishes a magazine three times a year, and issues research reports on the industry. The association was founded in 2005 by members of the casual games industry. http://www.casualgamesassociation.org/

Media Contacts

Jeff Mattson
Marketing - Casual Games Association
jeff@casualconnect.org
+1 425 223 0434 GMT - 8

Alisa Chumachenko
Marketing Director – IT Territory
alisa@it-territory.ru 
+ 7 495 952 4482  GMT +3