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…
CounterPlay14 - A festival of games and play Playful Learning Playful Culture Playful Business Website: http://www.counterplay.org
Independent games conference day, Utrecht, the Netherlands http://www.indievelopment.nl
3rd International Video Games Festival in Berlin - From April 9 to 11, 2014. A MAZE. / Berlin brings together international independent game developers, creatives and enthusiast in Berlin. http://amaze-berlin.de
http://www.indie-gameleon.org/
"One Day Masterclass about implementing real life games and stories, to learn, discover and develop" http://www.societyofplay.org
Free to Play 2014 - Artistic Indie Game Expo - Antwerp From the website: Indie games provide freedom. The freedom of a still fairly nascent medium to be seen as valid, artistic expression. The freedom of its creators to convey their hopes, fears and dreams through glowing dots on a screen, no matter who they…
w00t Copenhagen Play Festival 2014 From the website: w00t w00t! – Games exultant cry when a victory is won. The w00t festival is a long happy weekend for everyone who loves games and play. A festival presenting new games and thoughts from known, and especially unknown, genres. Themes @ w00t 2014 w00t has pointed out…
"Radius is more than just one event, it's a video games festival held in London in June 2014. It is the successor to last year's hugely successful ‘Etoo’, born out of the idea to create an event for people to discover and explore new and interesting games." Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radius-festival-2014-tickets-11865304445 Website: http://www.radiusfestival.com
http://www.playfulartsfestival.com
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
Games festival Sheffield, UK From the website: Games Britannia Live! is a fun-filled and free family-friendly festival of games invention, creativity and play. It celebrates Britain and Sheffield's rich videogame heritage: past, present and future. http://gamesbritannia.com/live/index.html
"An event about game design" Speakers: Hannah Nicklin Gwynn Morfey, Fire Hazard Alan Hazelden James Parker Tammy Nicholls, Games Workshop Jerry Mickle Christos Reid Alice O’Connor, Rock Paper Shotgun Alex May Website: http://feral-vector.com Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feral-vector-july-2014-tickets-11615768075
Come Out & Play is a two-day festival of street games that turns New York City into a giant playground. From the website: After Dark – DUMBO, Brooklyn, July 18 from 7 PM to 10:30 PM. Each year After Dark turns the city streets in a particular neighborhood into an arcade with social party games,…
From the website: "This summer, for the first time in the history of the Ruhr Area and for the first time in history in general, one city will become the home of a cultural experiment transferring architecture and urban interventions into the realm of game design and vice versa. Get ready for 72 HOUR INTERACTIONS…
Game Art Exhibition - Melbourne Glitchmark is a Melbourne based playful arts community: an open maker group not specific to discipline. Though we have a focus on games, we are informed by all kinds of creative practice. The aim of Game Art Melbourne Exhibition is to showcase the visual art from and inspired by videogames made…
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,…
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…
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…
Otherplace is an experimental game and play event in Malmö, Sweden. From the website: Otherplace explores the boundaries between fiction and reality, the playful and the serious. Games have the ability to engage us in conceptual worlds that exist in parallell, and at times seem to expand beyond reality. Play can disrupt our every day…
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