Overheard Weekly #1
Sent Tuesday, 10 November 2026. Dates as they were that day; the calendar has the current ones.
Closing soon
Deadlines in the next three weeks, earliest first. Each links to our entry and from there to the organiser's page.
- Tokyo Indie Games Summit 2027
Festival · closes 15 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT+9
- New Year, New Games Showcase 2027
Showcase · closes 25 Nov 2026 (time not stated)
- Ontario Creates Futures Forward Program 2026
Grant · closes 30 Nov 2026, 17:00 EST · Up to CAD 20,000
Newly open
Calls that opened since the last issue, and open calls we added to the calendar this week.
- Iteration Program 2027
Fund · opened 28 Oct 2026 · deadline 8 Dec 2026
- MomoCon Indie Games 2027
Expo booth · opened 3 Nov 2026 · rolling
Rising this week
Unreleased games whose Twitch category had the most different channels in week 45, with the week before. Counts of channels, not viewers.
- 1.Fart Together643 channels (819 the week before)
- 2.nanos world™505 channels (505 the week before)
- 3.CORDURA439 channels (95 the week before)
- 4.Dumpster Gang352 channels (446 the week before)
- 5.Roco Kingdom306 channels (614 the week before)
- 6.Safari-TV269 channels (149 the week before)
- 7.HANDS OVER268 channels (443 the week before)
- 8.QUIET235 channels (672 the week before)
- 9.DEADLINE: Afterlife Processing221 channels (620 the week before)
- 10.Chair Chase220 channels (49 the week before)
Radar Pro: For publishers and scouts: every Monday, the unreleased games Twitch streamers played most, by genre.
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