Abertay University has teamed up with entertainment giant Disney to launch an innovative European computer games competition.
They and their commercial and research partners in the Future Internet Content Initiative want entrants to come up with games that large groups of people can play together.
The winners will receive a cash prize and a chance to work with Disney and other companies.
The competition is focusing on multiplayer mobile games which mix real-life and internet experiences in a playful way and shows advances in 3D or virtual world environments.
A spokesman said: “A central theme of this new social gaming platform is moving beyond the traditional paradigm in which a user is fixed in front of a console or display.
“In this way, the game becomes an augmented version of the real world that delivers a more compelling experience than traditional console games or the simplistic social games that dominate today’s market.”
Professor Louis Natanson, who leads computer games education at Abertay, said: “Future internet technologies, and the hugely powerful smartphones everyone carries with them, offer an unprecedented opportunity for designers and programmers to build entirely new ways for large groups of people to play together in the real world.”