Indie devs will have a chance to pitch a Back to the Future game.
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NBC Universal, Unity, Intel, and Microsoft kick off big indie game contest

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Some big companies are getting together to create an indie game developers contest that will enable them to make prototype games based on some of Universal’s best film properties such as Battlestar Galactica and Voltron.

It will be a rare chance for indies to envision games based on their own takes on some of the world’s most popular entertainment franchises, said Chris Heatherly, executive vice president of games and digital platforms at NBC Universal’s Universal Brand Development, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.