"An international street games festival taking place in Athens hosting big games, design & technology workshops and city wide fun". From the website: Are you ready to come together and dance with stoplights, win epic battles, concur the streets, “run” in the Athens Plaython? The city’s first ever street games festival is happening the weekend…
"The IndieCade Festival is the only stand-alone independent-focused game event in the U.S.A. It is open to the industry and to the public." From the website: Events include a festival workshops, keynotes, and family-focused activities, meet-and-greets with game creators, hands-on gameplay with a GameWalk and big games, and numerous social events. The 2012 IndieCade Festival…
"Playful is a one-day conference all about games, play, interaction, behaviour and everything that comes with looking at the world through fun eyes." From the eventbrite ticket page: This is Playful’s fifth year, and the loose theme is DIY - more punk, less spirit levels. Greg and Richard are ageing punks in the making, and have…
One of the most fun and friendliest game festivals in the UK: GameCity: "It’s a unique exploration of what videogames really mean to the people who play them and the people who make them too." From the website: Welcome to GameCity, Europe’s biggest and best-loved videogame culture festival! Experience a huge range of playful events in and around…
"PLAYING THE GAME: Videogames, Home Brew, Indie Games, Game Art - Curated by VJ VISUALLOP" From gamescenes website: PLAYING THE GAME will take place in Milan on October 27-28 2012 as part of IF - Imagine the Future, an initiative sponsored by the Province of Milan Chamber of Commerce. The event focuses on PLAY and features three main areas: - Indie…
"Extended Play launched in 2011 as Southwest's first, and only, indie games festival. This year’s ExPlay promises to be bigger and better" From the press release: Building on the success of the inaugural ExPlay festival that took place in Plymouth in 2011 with keynotes from TIGA CEO Richard Wilson and Lara Croft creator Ian Livingstone,…
"Exile Jam is an extended weekend where you create games and technology as a team or alone". From the Facebook Event page: Exile Jam is an extended weekend where you create games and technology as a team or alone. You can start a new project with new people, or finish something in dire need of…
"The PICTOPLASMA NYC CONFERENCE once more stages the world’s leading and largest celebration of contemporary character culture, with a dense, two day program of inspiring artist presentations, conference lectures, animation festival and performances" From the website: The event’s unique mix of screenings, talks, presentations and parties has proven to be immensely inspiring, while the lively…
"Celebrating the best of art and creativity in games" - Gamercamp Toronto is Toronto's 2-day videogame culture festival. From the website: Gamercamp celebrates the artistry, innovation, and power of play. Attendees experience three days of inspiring talks, panels, presentations, gameplay sessions, demos, films, game jamming, and arcades showcasing the depth and talent of the North…
Pavilion of the Voltaic Arts: "A carefully-curated cavalcade of art experiences for the audience’s delight, seeking to create a space to examine videogame and interactive artwork as art". From the eventbrite page: Avant-garde heralds of the videogame art uprising, Zoe Quinn, game developer and founder of Dames Making Games, and Courtney Stanton, game producer and founder…
PLAYGROUNDS INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL "Playgrounds Audiovisual Arts Festival is a festival for innovative and creative digital art. During the two-day festival in Tilburg, Playgrounds presents an impression of the latest developments in technology as well as creativity. The festival programme offers an inspiring mix of inventive films, documentaries, animation, graphic design, artist talks, character…
Game in the City is a 2-day game industry conference with talks, masterclasses, Dutch Game Awards, cross business opportunities and more. The fifth edition of Game in the City will take place on Thursday the 22nd and Friday the 23rd of November in the Rijtuigenloods in Amersfoort. This anniversary edition promises a very nice line-up.…
Annual Dutch Game Awards. From the website: The fifth edition of Dutch Game Awards will take place on Thursday the 22nd of November in the Rijtuigenloods in Amersfoort. The Awards will be awarded in 14 categories during the Control Industry Dinner. The awards are organized together with Control Magazine. New this year are the Guts…
"VERSUS: live music, games & way more!" VERSUS is EINDBAAS versus GEKKENHUIS versus LOCAL MULTIPLAYER PICNIC. For the first time: Eindbaas, Gekkenhuis & Local Multiplayer Picnic joining forces. VERSUS will be bringing together DJs, live acts, local multiplayer games, performances and playful visuals in WORM, one of the most interesting venues the Netherlands has to…
Playful Arts Festival - Celebrating Playful Culture with a 3 day exhibition + Special Guest: Kaho Abe (NYC) + A Performance Night Out The inaugural Playful Arts Festival focusses on the interaction between players and the spaces in between. Collaboration and performance are key to play the games and installations from around the world selected…
Annual Game Creation event - worldwide game jam. GGJ is (one of) the biggest annual game jams where teams of people create games in 48 hours in the same weekend across the globe. The aim of GGJ is to stimulate creativity, collaboration, innovation and experimentation in game development around the world. Together with local organizers, volunteers,…
zo-ii & bART are proud to announce that Playful Arts Festival will be joining Art at the Warehouse taking place in Rotterdam, with a selection of games from the PAF12 edition. Games include Hokra, JS Joust, Recurse, Cello Fortress and ibb and obb. "Art at the Warehouse - is a new Art Festival in Rotterdam,…
IndieCade travels east! - International festival for indie games goes New York From the website: Growing out of IndieCade, IndieCade East is a celebration of what makes independent games so important. While IndieCade has always focused on giving the Independent Game community both a home and a voice from its headquarters in Los Angeles, IndieCade…
Indie Meetup in Utrecht The irregular scheduled indie game dev meetup is back: "We're back with what will be the indiest meetup in the history of meetups! You know the drill: good people, drinks, conversations, video games, knuckle tats, all that indie stuff. " Event page
Control Gamelab - talkshow about game development. Theme: Global Game Jam 2013 Each year thousands of developers participate in the Global Game Jam worldwide. In the Netherlands, five locations hosted Global Game Jam NL in January. 86 games were developed. During Control Gamelab #7 the winners of the five locations will present their games to…
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