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

  • Play13 – Hamburg

    Hamburg Hamburg, Germany

    Festival for creative computer games. Website: http://creative-gaming.eu/play13/  

  • Tocati 2013 – Festival of Street Games

    Verona Verona, Italy

    Tocatì, international festival of street games, Verona, Italy From the website: "During these past ten years of Tocatì Verona has become an important point of reference in Europe as for the traditional game and it gathers experts and enthusiastic people in a Festival that has made of the territorial bonds its strength." During Tocatì, International…

  • Control Gamelab #9: Game Trailers

    Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Control Gamelab: Regular live talkshow about games & development. Theme: Game Trailers. Hosts: Matthijs Dierckx (Control Magazine) en Rik Nieuwdorp (Claynote) Website: http://www.dezwijger.nl/77465/nl/control-gamelab-9-game-trailers  Program: • How do you make a trailer? (Teun Vermeer, Net 5) • Copyright issues: what can and can't you use? (Mr. Olivier Oosterbaan) • Lessons from a film trailer expert • Successful…

  • Freeplay Independent Games Festival 2013

    State Library of Victoria Melbourne, Australia

    Freeplay is Australia’s longest running independent games festival exploring the intersection of indie development, culture, arts and education. From the website: The Freeplay Independent Games Festival is excited to announce that its conference program, this year titled “Volume of Revolution,” will take place at the State Library of Victoria on the weekend of September 28…

  • INDIGO Showcase 2013

    Stadhuis Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands

      Playable showcase with the best and latest Dutch indie games. Website: http://www.indigoshowcase.nl Organizer: Dutch Game Garden Control Magazine articles on INDIGO line-up games: http://www.control-online.nl/gamesindustrie/tag/indigo-2013/ http://vimeo.com/75020488

  • IndieCade 2013

    IndieCade Village 9300 Culver Blvd., Culver City, United States

    "The IndieCade Festival is the biggest independent game celebration in the USA." From the website: "Inspire. Create. Play. We here at IndieCade are dedicated to the discovery, development and recognition of independent artists and developers from around the world. Our mission is to encourage, promote and cultivate innovation and artistry in interactive media and to…

  • Gamecity 8

    Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Annual Game Culture festival, Nottingham, UK "GameCity Festival is back in venues and public spaces across Nottingham from 19-26 October 2013." News update May 30, 2013 "In 2013, the festival is going more public than ever before. No walls, no admission tickets – just two big screens and a huge Market Square." GameCity 8 is…

  • Italian Game Developers Summit 2013

    MiCo Gate 5, Milan, Italy

    Italian Game Developers Summit (IGDS), Milan. From the website: 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…

  • 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 2013

    Conway Hall London, United Kingdom

    Playful 2013 - A one-day conference all about games, play, design, interaction, behaviour and everything else that comes from playing about. From the website: It's a boss day full of smart, silly, mouth-watering and brain-broadening things. A sticker-book of brilliant thinking designed to make you want to Make Stuff. Playful 2013 will happen on Friday the…

  • ExPlay Festival 2013

    Assembly Rooms Bath, United Kingdom

    ExPlay: "independent games conference and expo, showcasing the UK's finest emergent games and game studios" From the website: ExPlay Festival 2013 is the fourth edition of the independent games conference and expo, showcasing the UK's finest emergent games and game studios. Hosted at the Assembly Rooms in Bath UK for its second year, ExPlay will…

  • playARK 2013

    Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff, United Kingdom

    playARK 2013: Games Festival and talks. From the website: "Two days that asks you to playfully Reclaim learning, living and working now and in the future. Day one brings you the theory and day two the practical with a selection of street games for families and adults" From the FB event: Day 1 – Festival…

  • 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 -…

  • PRACTICE 2013

    NYU Game Center New York, NY, United States

    3rd Annual PRACTICE Conference - 'An intimate gathering of top designers': From the website: PRACTICE is designed for a high-level exchange of ideas among professional game designers. Game design is a complex multi-threaded discipline, and PRACTICE is a unique opportunity to understand and refine what we do when we design games. PRACTICE: Game Design in…

  • Control Conference 2013

    Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Control Conference - a day about game development From the website: The brand new one-day conference brought to you by the people from Control Magazine. A conference with a clear focus: development. No talks on business, marketing, and management — this one’s about code, art and game design. Our goal is to provide attendees with…

  • Art & Arcade 2014

    House of Electronic Arts Basel Basel, Switzerland

    Artistic Arcade machines from around the world exhibition. From the website: Arcade video machines are cult. They first appeared in the United States and Europe in the 1970s, as a new variation on the traditional ‘penny arcades’.  Classics such as Pong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Mario Bros, Donkey Kong and Tron marked the heyday of electronic…

  • Wild Rumpus

    BL-NK London, United Kingdom

    Indie videogame night roughhousing - The Wild Rumpus Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wild-rumpus-5-tickets-9667625127

  • Global Game Jam 2014

    Global

    Global Game Jam 2014 - Worldwide http://www.globalgamejam.org  

  • IndieCade East 2014

    Museum of the Moving Image New York, NY, United States

    International Festival of Independent Games - IndieCade East: New York From the website: Why should the left coast have all the fun? Some of our favorite games have come from indies living on the East Side, from Toronto down to Georgia. We are proud to announce the return of IndieCade East, February 14-16 2014 at…

  • Vector Game + Art Convergence Festival 2014

    Different venues Toronto, Canada

    Vector Game + Art Convergence Festival 2014 From the website: The Vector Game + Art Convergence Festival is a participative, not-for-profit, community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing contemporary game-based artworks. The festival will be running at multiple venues over five days, from Feb 19 to 23 in Toronto, Canada. Vector 2014 will feature exhibitions, screenings, workshops,…


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