DGA Dag 2012 is a day organised by Dutch Games Association for its members and other interested parties. This time Don Daglow will be keynote speaker. Other speakers: Jan Willem Huisman (IJsfontein), Ben Schouten and many more. See for the full schedule here: http://www.aanmelder.nl/dgadag/part_program
"The Game Developers Conference® (GDC) is the world's largest professionals-only game industry event. The conference commemorated its 25th edition in 2011, making it also the longest-running event of its kind." Want to meet up? Get in touch!
Bi-weekly event Bashers GameClub will kick off its first edition on Thursday April 5 at Dutch Game Garden. Originally a podcast, Bashers chief Niels 't Hooft decided to create an event where an actual audience can join in on discussions about games. Each GameClub will focus on a particular game, much like bookclubs do with…
Another Utrecht Indie meetup where game devs meet, drink, talk nonsense and have fun! Organized by Paul Veer, Kitty Calis and Jan-Willem Nijman. More info about the event: http://www.facebook.com/events/254717584621709/
"The Festival of Games is Europe’s most effective business event for everyone who wants to make profit with digital games. It consists of a Conference, the Showcase, the largest European Career Fair in gaming and the match-making event Pitch & Match." Conference program: http://www.festivalofgames.nl/site/conference-2012/conference-program Exhibitor list: http://www.festivalofgames.nl/site/career-fair/exhibitor-list INDIGO on the Road by Dutch Game Garden will also…
"Facing Pages is a biennial festival about independent magazines. With a three-day event, Facing Pages (formerly O.K. Festival) brings leading independent magazine makers and aficionados to Arnhem, The Netherlands. The event shows what part the independent magazine currently plays in the development of our visual culture."
DGDARC (Dutch Game Development and Research Club) and Sticky (student association for Computer Science and Information Science) both linked to Utrecht University, organize "Indievelopment" - a one day indie game dev symposium in Maarssen, The Netherlands. Speakers will include devs from studios such as Vlambeer, Game Oven Studios and Tale of Tales.
"The Nordic Game 2012 conference is all about building; the building of games of course, but also about building your market knowledge, your skills, your network, and your company. Nordic Game 2012, the ninth edition of the conference, will be held on 23-25 May 2012, in Slagthuset, Malmö, Sweden."
Jan Willem Nijman and Kitty Calis organizer the first Local Multiplayer Game Picnic in the Dutch Game Garden Visit the FB Event page to find out more. Food, drinks & home made local multiplayer games! Bring your own and have a good time right before the utrecht indie meetup. Featuring: CHALOCHALO BARBARIBALL SAMURAI GUNN SNEAKSNEAK…
It's time for another Utrecht Indie Meetup, organized by Paul Veer, Kitty Calis and Jan Willem Nijman: Sup fools. We're doing this again because you just can't get enough of it. Utrecht Indie Meetup GOTY Edition has all the features you loved about the regular Utrecht Indie Meetup, AND MORE! OH SWEET LORD HOLD ME!…
Cosmopolite performing arts debate - Kosmopolitische podiumkunsten in debat ComMotie - Game Over with the subtitle: "Performing arts and Games - A Match Made in Heaven?" will be a "User Generated debate with theatrical and musical installations". The debate will cover questions such as 'what happens to the autonomous artist when the spectator becomes part of the performance or…
Graduates of Design for Virtual Theatre and Games (DVTG), soon to be known as Interactive Performance Design and Games (IPDG) at the HKU will showcase their graduation projects in Utrecht, June 14-16. I had the honor to be their Media & Games theory lecturer in their first two years at DVTG and am looking forward…
A proper indie games arcade like Babycastles in Rotterdam, The Netherlands? It looks like it is going to happen! The brilliant WORM organization brings the famous Babycastles crew to Rotterdam and have them do a workshop for creating game arcade cabinets. From the event post: Join Kunal Gupta (Babycasltes), Syed Salahuddin (Babycastles), Thu Tran (Food…
The Creative Game Challenge is running for the third year in a row. The usual Creative Game Challenge is a challenge for high school students in The Netherlands where they can send in games with a particular theme. In 2012 the theme was 'botsingen' or collision / crashes. This year is the first time that…
"The International Game Architecture and Design program (IGAD) of NHTV University of Applied Sciences holds the Industry, Never Ending Conference Event and Game Release Party on Thursday 5th of July. The Industry event will showcase the best games, graduation projects and course work by the students this year. The Never Ending Conference event will…
Brand new video game industry event in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From the website: "Got Game Conference (August 20 & and 21, 2012) is a brand new video game industry event that focuses on perpetuating and growing the video game industry through the exchange of knowledge and ideas, locally and globally. Located in the heart of Amsterdam, Got…
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