KIN Awards and Grants underscores our commitment to the Unity Developer Community

In late March 2018, we announced a groundbreaking partnership with Unity Technologies’ Asset Store, the leading gaming engine in the world. A year later, we’ve learned a lot from Unity developers, launched the Kin SDK for Unity and worked with design partners to build the first few live Kin games made with Unity

Today, we are opening the floodgates and launching the 25B Kin Gaming Challenge to the world, exclusive to Unity developers! Grants and awards totaling 25 billion KIN will be awarded to games across three categories: Best Use of KIN; Most Active; and Community Favorite.

The challenge, which runs from April 19, 2019 through December 30, 2019, encourages innovation, excellence and creativity for mobile game developers (Android and iOS) who integrate the Kin SDK for Unity.

This is the first step in helping independent Unity developers and small studios monetize their experiences, grow their audience and join Kin’s fast-growing network of games and social apps. We want to work with the most innovative developer teams to fuel our growing network of games.

Register for the 25B Kin Gaming Challenge today — don’t delay, the first and best 100 developers get 50M KIN for free when their game goes live!

Timeline and Milestones

Here are the dates you need to know:

Apply (June 15, 2019): Applications will open, and participants will be accepted into the program on a weekly basis until June 15th The first 250 accepted applications will receive 250,000 KIN to support your game to go live.

Go Live (July 31, 2019): Developers have until July 31 to submit proof of a live Kin-powered experience in an app store. Once we verify that the experience is live, the first 100 eligible developers will receive a Go Live reward of 50M KIN to jumpstart their economy.

Achieve Milestones (December 30, 2019): Once live, only 100 games will be eligible for KIN awards for achieving 6 monthly active spender (MAS) milestones during a unique 30-day period. The milestones are as follows:

Monthly Active Spender (MAS)

Issuance of KIN

25B KIN Gaming Challenge Awards

Developers who submit their game by July 31, will be eligible to participate in 3 additional awards based on Most Active, Best Use and Community Favorite. The 250 developers that are accepted into the challenge and successfully go live before July 31, 2019 will all be eligible for the below KIN awards. Please see the Terms and Conditions for full details.

Most Active Awards

4B KIN is up for grabs to be divided by participants (up to 250) based on the Kin Gaming Rewards Engine.

Best Use Awards

8 participants will be recognized for their distinction in creative work and awarded Gold (700M KIN), Silver (400M KIN), Bronze (200M KIN) or one of five Runner Ups (one of 50M KIN), based on the combined scoring of the judges — nominated from the Kin Foundation, which will be announced during the term of the program.

Community Favorite Awards

3 participants will receive one of Gold (700M KIN), Silver (400 KIN) and Bronze (200M KIN) awards as chosen by our Community Judges, which will be nominated by the Kin Foundation from Kin Foundation’s community of members, for example, in Reddit, Telegram, Twitter or industry influencers.

All applications must be approved and go live on both the Apple App Store or Google Play Store in order to be eligible to win. The on-boarding, payout process and judging criteria are outlined in the Terms and Conditions.

Stay tuned for contest updates, featured games and more in the coming weeks from the Kin.org team.

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