AppLovin has announced a competition for mobile indie games. $300 thousand will be divided between the four winners

Lion Studios division — AppLovin — announced the second annual Ultimate Game Changers competition. The studio will select four mobile indie games and distribute a prize pool of $300 thousand among them.

Flip Trickster — Winner of Ultimate Game Changers last year
AppLovin does not specify the criteria for selecting the best gaming applications.

It is noted only that this is a “competition of the best skills”. The first prize in it is $ 150 thousand, the other three finalists will receive $ 75 thousand, $ 50 thousand and $ 25 thousand.

An application that is already available in the App Store and Google Play can participate in the competition. Moreover, according to Pocket Gamer, it should have less than 100 thousand downloads. Applications that participated in it last year are not allowed before the competition.

Another important condition: the developer must not be a natural or legal person who resides/is organized in a country under US sanctions.

Applications for the competition are accepted until August 15. Its winners will be announced on September 16. You can learn more about the contest and fill out an application here.

Note that more than 230 developers from 32 countries submitted their applications for last year’s Ultimate Game Changers. The winner — Flip Trickster — was eventually published by Lion Studios and generated 47 million installations.

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