Educational & Commercial Opportunities
The Virtual Malta Project provides an invaluable educational resource across the entire age range, and affords commercial prospects via both the tourism market and the Maltese (and foreign) games development industry as well as prospects for generating revenue via advertising and merchandising.
Education There are great advantages for distance or classroom learning using a collaborative virtual environment. Access to the CVE can be sold to schools on a multiple license and can also be made available to individuals via a variety of packages, eg - a single-day subscription, a monthly, annual or lifetime package. These subscriptions can be sold via the Tourist Centre at Ggantija, or online via this website Educational Extras A variety of printable extras can be offered with different packages such as : Drawings to colour Paper dolls in costume Mazes Jigsaws Pictures for a scrapbook Make a card to send In addition to this it is also proposed that in conjunction with the Department of Education, the Virtual Malta Project will provide a learning centre for hands on apprenticeships for young people who wish to learn digital animation. Merchandising Local craftspeople can be offered deals to create miniature and fullsized period artefacts for sale in the Visitor Centre. the Heritage Online website and this website. The Malta Playmobil factory should also be approached to negotiate bespoke playmobil sets based on the period, again available only through the Visitor Centre and the Heritage Online website. A whole range of other merchandising items such as T-shirts, spoons, coasters, postcards, books etc should also be included. Tourism A series of flythroughs of the Ggantija and other Virtual Malta projects could be sold to airlines flying to Malta, to be played during flights. They could be made available to the National Office for Tourism in Malta for online viewing by prospective tourists. They could be sold to various tour operators Games Development Apart from being sold for use in Malta-based games created by the games industry in Malta, the environments created by the Virtual Malta Project can also be made avaiable to any international games dev company. We could also offer bespoke environment creation. Advertising Sponsors could be offered discreetly placed advertising space either at this website or at the CVE website etc. Other Commenrical Opportunities Various other commercial opportunities will be sought, eg – working with the Malta Film Facility or with Xandir Malta (Malta National Broadcasting Service). |