NCAI Holds Game Production Contest Using Barco 3D
Jul 20, 2025
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NCAI, the representative company of domestic game and media AI, will provide indie game developers and prospective creators with an opportunity to easily develop 3D games for free.
NCAI will hold the "1st NCAI VARCO 3D Game Production Contest" to help discover next-generation game creative talents and use its AI technology more widely.
Through this competition, NCAI provides AI technology in the form of SaaS (software in the form of a service) so that more creators can experience AI technology that has been developed to improve game production efficiency. In particular, AI-based 3D asset production tool 'VARCO 3D' (hereinafter Barco 3D) will be provided free of charge during the competition to help participants produce high-quality game content more easily.
Barco 3D is an AI tool that supports easy and fast production of 3D assets required for game development. Producing 3D game assets is a difficult task for game developers and indie game companies because it costs a lot of money and takes more than three to four weeks to produce, but Barco 3D is drawing attention from many game developers as it can produce 3D assets at reasonable prices and around 10 minutes.
In particular, Barco 3D is characterized by maximizing production efficiency based on an intuitive interface and high-quality results. Using Barco 3D, it is essential to produce more than 50% of the core assets in the game directly, so participants can gain experience in practical use of AI-based production tools through the contest.
Application for participation is available through the pop-up banner on the NCAI official website and partnership page. Applicants are individuals or teams who can complete the game during the competition, and must submit game build files, evidence of using NCAI tools, lists and sources of self-produced assets, explanatory documents, and plays of at least 5 minutes.
Applications for the contest will begin on the 18th and will be held for two weeks until the 31st, and the official competition will begin on August 1. The deadline for submitting works will be announced on August 31 and the final winning works will be announced on September 22.
The prize money of 3 million won for the grand prize (1 team), 2 million won for the best prize (1 team), 500,000 won for each excellence prize (5 teams), and a total of 7.5 million won will be issued to all participants. In the case of student participants, additional points will be given when applying for NCAI internships in the future.
In addition, some of the award-winning works will be introduced as excellent examples through various events and media hosted or cooperated by NCAI, and opportunities to participate in major events such as keynote announcements will be provided if necessary. Additional support, such as game promotion, will be provided for the award-winning works through separate consultations.
Lee Yeon-soo, CEO of NCAI, said, "This contest will provide more creators with the experience of creating games using AI technology and expand the creative attempts and diversity of the Korean indie game industry. We will continue our efforts to realize the two goals of increasing production efficiency and strengthening creative capabilities through AI technology." he said.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
