Prototype, a weekend of Playful Design and Novel Interactions. Running over three days, Prototype will invite local and international designers and artists to host a selection of games, exhibits and playful interventions in Project Arts Centre and beyond. Prototype embraces the concept of play in all its guises; playful design, play as formal structures in…
Play festival San Francisco. From the website: The Come Out & Play Festival is back! Celebrating a fifth year of bringing play to the Bay, Come Out & Play SF will continue its tradition of bringing new and innovative real-world games to San Francisco this Fall. This year’s festival will take place on October 24-25,…
Poznan Game Arena 2014 - Games, Entertainment and Multimedia Fair http://www.gamearena.pl/en
The Italian Game Developers Summit (IGDS) is an event dedicated to the community of Italian game developers to exchange their experiences, meet with each other and inspire from international speakers. The event is based on a “360° degree development” concept, meaning that in order to be successful in the video games field, besides being able…
Playful 2014: A one-day conference full of thought, talk and play. Expect a day of the unexpected, the funny and the bizarre in games, interaction, technology, design and beyond. The Seventh Playful exposes secrecy and subterfuge as both problem and opportunity for the brilliant thinkers and creators who will unencrypt new worlds of play and supercharge your imagination.…
Biggest game dev convention in Central Europe. 60+ talks, 50+ speakers Website: http://gdcon.com/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/ztgpl
GameCity 9 - video game festival all around the city of Nottingham, UK. From the website: The GameCity festival returns to Nottingham this October for another half-term week of adventure! Every year, the best people in video games from around the World come to Nottingham to have the most fun. GameCity is about playing, watching,…
QGCon is a free, weekend-long, interdisciplinary event. The goal of QGCon is to create an open and inclusive environment for discussing the intersection of video games and LGBTQ issues, however you define them. QGCon brings together academics and game developers to foster dialogues that break traditional disciplinary boundaries. The QGCon organizers believe in the importance…
Playgrounds International Digital Arts Festival is a festival for innovative and creative digital art. During the four-day festival in Tilburg and Amsterdam, Playgrounds presents an impression of the latest developments in technology as well as creativity. The festival programme offers an inspiring mix of artist talks, inventive films, animation, graphic design, character design, games, interactive installations and performances. Website: http://www.playgroundsfestival.nl/ Locations: Tilburg:…
Formerly known as the ArtGame Weekend, Zoo Machines Festival, the interdisciplinary event to envision new species of video games, will happen on November the 7th, 8th, 9th 2014 in L’Imaginarium, the cluster for digital creativity and innovation. SHARE Talks will be fast, will stimulate creativity, will open discussions about issues faced by developers, artists and…
PRACTICE: Game Design in Detail. From the website: PRACTICE is an annual event that takes a close look at the concrete challenges of game design, bridging dialog across industries. Where else can a console developer discuss level design with a tabletop RPG writer? Or an iPhone puzzle creator debate economy balancing with collectable card game…
New Horizons - De Kunst Achter Games (the art behind games) Exhibition on the mutual influence of game art, contemporary art & pop culture. Part of Next Gen Art Event 2014. From the website: By displaying games and other art forms next to each other, the New Horizons exhibition in the Fries Museum is one…
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).
screenshake2015 - Indie Games Festival, Antwerp (BE) screenshake2015 (formerly called Free To Play Expo) is the third edition of Belgium's only international indie game festival and takes place February 6-8 at Het Bos, Antwerp. Three days and two nights will barely suffice to see, hear, do and play all of the things at screenshake2015, with a…
Nordic Game Jam is the biggest video game industry event in Denmark and one of the largest game jams in the whole world. Jamming since 2006. Programme: 5 Feb: Nordic Game Jam Pre-Party 6 Feb: Playdate, Talks, Keynote, group forming, jamming 7 Feb: Jam time 8 Feb: Finish games, jam game expo, presentations, voting, awards.
Independent Game Festival, New York. Three days of talks, panels, workshops, exhibits, and games throughout the museum, curated from IndieCade’s diverse and brilliant community of designers, thinkers, and players. The conference is complemented by workshops covering a range of topics, from introductions to popular digital gamemaking tools, to hands on game design lessons. IndieCade East…
Vector 2015 - Games, Art, New Media festival - Toronto, Canada From the website: The Vector Festival is a participative, not-for-profit, and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing experiments in digital games and interactive experiences. New media art is a diverse field characterized by a wide variety of creative practices; the works shown at Vector act…
Venus Patrol and the Wild Rumpus team up again to throw an amazing party during the week of GDC in San Francisco. Local Multiplayer Games, DJs, Music, Dancing, Drinks. Website: http://thatvenuspatrolwildrumpusparty.com Tickets:
World Premiere screening for the documentary GameLoading: Rise of the Indies. The StudioBento team travelled months around the world to visit and interview people from the indie game scene. At GDC 2015 week in SF they will screen the world premiere of the documentary. https://vimeo.com/119952021
Fresh Air Festival 2015 - Festival of games & play. Melbourne, Australia From the website: Melbourne’s International Games Festival, Fresh Air, is back for 2015, hosted by Pop Up Playground and commissioned and presented by Federation Square’s Creative Program. Headlining Fresh Air this year are Fire Hazard Games from the UK, who are running the…
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