Curated calendar with indie game events, conferences and play festivals worldwide.

  • A MAZE. Indie Pop Up at Republika Fest

    Indie games festival A MAZE. is participating in Republika Fest in Rijeka, Croatia. A MAZE. Indie Pop Up during Republika Fest will consist of: Game showcase, machinima screening, talks, game jam and workshops. From the A MAZE. website: A MAZE. Indie Pop Up is a mobile event format with the goal of presenting Indie Games…

  • Mozilla Festival 2013 – Mozfest

    Ravensbourne 6 Penrose Way, London, United Kingdom

    Mozilla Festival is an annual gathering of passionate thinkers and inventors from around the world who meet to learn from each other and help forge the future of the web. From the website: Catalysts: Mentoring, change agents and web literacy are a key focus of this year’s Mozilla Festival. Makers: Mozilla Festival opens up a world…

  • Playful Arts Festival Presents: The Art of Play

    First Floor (AKV St. Joost Academie) Onderwijsboulevard 256, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

    Playful Arts Festival presents: The Art of Play - a day with talks, showcases and workshops about the art of play. Tickets for The Art Of Play are now available via eventbrite: https://artofplay2013.eventbrite.com/ Playful Arts Festival is delighted to invite you to exploring the Art of Play together with national and international artists and game -…

  • GDC 2014

    Moscone Center San Francisco, United States

    Game Developers Conference 2014 - San Francisco From the website:  The GDC attracts over 23,000 attendees, and is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry. This market defining conference…

  • CounterPlay 2014

    Unnamed Venue Aarhus, Denmark

    CounterPlay14 - A festival of games and play Playful Learning Playful Culture Playful Business Website: http://www.counterplay.org

  • Indie Gameleon 2014

    Unnamed Venue Groningen, Netherlands

    http://www.indie-gameleon.org/

  • Game Happens! 2014

    Villa Durazzo Bombrini Genova, Italy

    From the website: Game Happens! is a workshop and a networking event focusing on the economic growth of the video game industry in Italy, especially in Genova and in the Liguria region. http://gamehappens.com/index.php/en

  • JOIN – 1st Local Multiplayer Summit

    Supermarkt Brunnenstrasse 64, Berlin, Germany

    Join is a one day event about local multiplayer video games, which means “games that can be played by two or more people in the same physical location”. From the website: Why: Because the games that you can play together with other people are our favourite kind of games. Those games used to rule they world,…

  • GDC Europe 2014

    Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse Cologne, Germany

    The Game Developers Conference™ Europe (GDC Europe) is the largest professionals-only game industry event in Europe. The GDC Europe will be held in conjunction with gamescom, the leading European consumer show, creating a full week of activity and opportunity for the games industry. This confluence of industry professionals allows GDC Europe to address the development…

  • #1ReasontoBe Panel | GDC Europe 2014

    Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse Cologne, Germany

    The #1ReasonToBe panel makes its GDC Europe debut this year with a rapid, fun microtalk-style celebration and exploration of what it means to be a woman in games, European style. Each panelist will share their experience, its highs and lows, and explore a vision for a future industry that is inclusive for everyone. The session…

  • STRP Scene 1: The Game is On

    MU Ruimte | Strijp-S Eindhoven, Netherlands

    Afternoon about development of games, online and in public space. Games will be researched from different perspectives: entertainment, science and sociology. Speakers among others: IJsfontein, Hubbub. Launch MU Play & Learn. Launch urban game developed by Hubbub.

  • ZTG GameDev Convention

    Poznan International Fair - pavilion 14 Glogowska, Poznan, Poland

    Biggest game dev convention in Central Europe. 60+ talks, 50+ speakers Website: http://gdcon.com/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/ztgpl

  • European Indie Game Days (EIGD) 2014

    La Generale Montreuil, France

    Organised in the form of professional meetings, this event alternates conferences, round tables and feedbacks aimed at Independent Video Game professionals (not only founders and employees of independent studios but editors, companies, journalists and students too).

  • State of Play 2015

    Dublin Institute of Technology Dublin, Ireland

    State of Play, indie game developer conference. Dublin, Ireland. "The State Of Play is an informal review of the year gone by on the Irish Indie Game Developer Industry. The ‘State Of Play’ is a chance for new and experienced developers to network with each other, demonstrate and showcase their work to their peers and…

  • The city as playground

    Werkspoorkathedraal Tractieweg 41, Utrecht, Netherlands

    For this year’s Day of Architecture, Expodium invited Playful Arts Festival to organize a day about play and the city. Goal: to publicly research the way play influences the city. Actually, it is more than a public research, it is an experiment in which you are invited to participate. We invited artists Abner Preis, Ieke Trinks, Phoenix…

  • Incubate Arcade 2016: Conversations_

    De NWE Vorst WillemII-straat 49, Tilburg

    Join the Incubate Arcade artists in conversation! Incubate Arcade explores intimacy, weird interfaces and the work by female indie devs in an exhibition with 35+ games & installations. Several of the artists are present and we're going to explore the themes further with them through workshops, panels and talks on 10 September. 10 September 2016…

  • ALT CTRL Hackathon

    TBA TIlburg Tilburg, Netherlands

    One day of experimenting with creating alternative controllers for games. More info tba

  • Playful Learning Conference 2019

    Stamford Court Manor Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Playful Learning is pitched at the intersection of learning and play for adults. Playful in approach and outlook, yet underpinned by robust research and working practices, we provide a space where teachers, researchers and students can play, learn and think together. A space to meet other playful people and be inspired by talks, workshops, activities…

  • GAIA 2019

    San Martín Cultural Center Sarmiento 1551, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    First International Think Tank of curators and producers of videogames cultural events. The first edition of GAIA is co-organized by Game ON! El arte en juego and Game Arts International Network. The symposium is loosely structured into three themes. Day 1 is Past Successes, Day 2 is Current Challenges, and Day 3 is Future Opportunities.   I will…


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