About the workshop series Many game studios in Europe and around the world are increasingly invested in diversity and inclusion as part of their mission to create a positive working environment. However, when it comes to anti-racism, the active confrontation of racist structures and biases, terms like “diversity” and “inclusion” are often not enough to […]
We are happy to announce that Diana Díaz Montón will join us for our next live AMA! Diana has been in this industry for over 20 years as a localization specialist freelancer and also co-founded a company specialized in video game localization. This interview will be divided in two parts, a case study about making […]
The IGDA Game Art SIG warmly invites you to SketchClub Online—a FREE (roughly) bi-weekly event kindly sponsored by SAE Institute Zurich and hosted by author and designer Chris Solarski with the purpose of exploring traditional and contemporary approaches to figure sketching and character design. Attendees are encouraged to participate in artistic challenges prescribed for each each session, for which Chris is on hand to offer […]
SIDEFX is proud to announce the Houdini Game Jam 2022! Houdini Game Jam will take place over the course of one week from 17-24 June 2022. The game jam will begin when the theme is revealed via livestream on SideFX’s Twitch channel on June 17th at 11am PDT. Game jammers will then have one week to build their games […]
The IGDA Game Art SIG warmly invites you to SketchClub Online—a FREE (roughly) bi-weekly event kindly sponsored by SAE Institute Zurich and hosted by author and designer Chris Solarski with the purpose of exploring traditional and contemporary approaches to figure sketching and character design. Attendees are encouraged to participate in artistic challenges prescribed for each each session, for which Chris is on hand to offer […]
The leading games industry conference, Pocket Gamer Connects, lands in the bustling, vibrant and diverse city of Toronto for the first time in its history. Over 750 games industry professionals will gather in town on 6-7 July to network, discover, pitch and learn from 150 of the world’s leading authorities. Mobile, PC and console, blockchain, […]
Kylan Coats is going to share his experience starting Crispy Creative and working on "A Long Journey to an Uncertain End"! About this event Kyan Coats is going to speak about his experience launching an indie studio and working on their debut title "A Long Journey to an Uncertain End", a game focused on bringing […]
The IGDA Game Art SIG warmly invites you to SketchClub Online—a FREE (roughly) bi-weekly event kindly sponsored by SAE Institute Zurich and hosted by author and designer Chris Solarski with the purpose of exploring traditional and contemporary approaches to figure sketching and character design. Attendees are encouraged to participate in artistic challenges prescribed for each each session, for which Chris is on hand to offer […]
Develop:Brighton is the only event in the UK that brings the entire game-making industry together - from global superstars to micro indies, to learn from each other, share ideas and experiences, network and do business in a friendly and inclusive environment. And we've been doing it since 2006. We’ve been listening to our community and this year […]
The IGDA Game Art SIG warmly invites you to SketchClub Online—a FREE (roughly) bi-weekly event kindly sponsored by SAE Institute Zurich and hosted by author and designer Chris Solarski with the purpose of exploring traditional and contemporary approaches to figure sketching and character design. Attendees are encouraged to participate in artistic challenges prescribed for each each session, for which Chris is on hand to offer […]
When: July 28-29 Where: Lithuania, Vilnius, Radisson Blu Lietuva On July 28-29 DevGAMM Vilnius 2022 will feature two conference days in Lithuania at Radisson Blu Lietuva with business meetings, talks from industry experts, expo with new games and company booths, and job opportunities. Here’s a brief look into amazing speakers’ line-up: Leszek Szczepański, Guerrilla Games, […]
The Design of Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son (or how to design when you are trapped in a time loop) In this talk we will cover the design and production process of the VR game Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son (2019). From the conceptualization to the release of the project. We'll talk about […]
The IGDA Game Art SIG warmly invites you to SketchClub Online—a FREE (roughly) bi-weekly event kindly sponsored by SAE Institute Zurich and hosted by author and designer Chris Solarski with the purpose of exploring traditional and contemporary approaches to figure sketching and character design. Attendees are encouraged to participate in artistic challenges prescribed for each each session, for which Chris is on hand to offer […]
When: 8 August-11 August Where: Vancouver Convention Centre and Virtual Platform Immerse yourself in the future of computer graphics, interactive techniques, research, and scientific visualization at SIGGRAPH 2022! Our virtual conference experience starts 25 July with hours of on-demand content in our virtual platform. The in person, interactive experience starts 8 August in Vancouver with […]
We are happy to announce that Guido Di Carlo will join us for the next live AMA (Ask me Anything) on August 16th, 7 p.m. CET! Guido has been working in the translation industry for 12 years. First, as PM for various agencies and then as a freelance game translator. When he's not converting text […]
The IGDA Game Art SIG warmly invites you to SketchClub Online—a FREE (roughly) bi-weekly event kindly sponsored by SAE Institute Zurich and hosted by author and designer Chris Solarski with the purpose of exploring traditional and contemporary approaches to figure sketching and character design. Attendees are encouraged to participate in artistic challenges prescribed for each each session, for which Chris is on hand to offer […]
Date: 2 - 4 September 2022 Location: PROGR (Center for Cultural Practice), Bern, Switzerland Admission: FREE Since 2019, the PlayBern Festival has been presenting the creative side of gaming to a broad audience. Complete novice or seasoned nerd? Person with a disability or without? Young or old? There is a lot to discover for everyone in the […]
Mobidictum announces the region’s largest video game industry event, Mobidictum Business Conference (MBC). The event will take place in Istanbul on September 5-6, and bring the industry together at Haliç Congress Center. Mobidictum Business Conference will address every corner of the industry, from mobile games to blockchain titles and onward. MBC 2022 welcomes both well-known […]
Toronto indie studios unite to share their journey in marketing their games and discussing the techniques and gambits that shaped their trajectory. Join the IGDA Toronto Discord to RSVP, receive notifications, and get in on the conversation!
Mark your calendars! We welcome you to join the online Quantum Game Jam, an event where you will collaborate with game developers, quantum physicists, visual artists, musicians, coders and others in order to develop games that connect to quantum physics either through real machinery or simply thematically. Materials about both game development and quantum physics is provided […]
We are happy to announce that Eman Abdo will join us for the next live AMA (Ask me Anything) on September 16th, 7 p.m. CEST! Eman Abdo is an English to Arabic translator specialized in localization and transcreation, mainly in game localization, e-learning, and marketing. She is the author of Egypt Localization Guide, and […]
IGDA Finland is delighted to invite YOU to participate at this year's W Love Games Conference which will take place on the 13-14th of October 2022 in Helsinki! The event is FREE to attend, the registration is requited in order to receive access to all the content and to network with other participants. This year […]
XTiming Academy is a mentorship program developed in collaboration with the IGDA that teaches, supports, and mentors mobile game developers throughout the entire game development and marketing process with the assistance of industry leaders. What's Offered? Tailor-Made Classes Access to Mentors Benefits for the Bests in the Class Access to Tools Interested? Visit the website […]
Want to know the secrets of a good lockit? The IGDA LocSIG is happy to announce that Caro Panero will join us for our next live AMA on how to make a good lockit! Caro Panero is an English>LatAm Spanish translator specialized in video game localization, subtitling & webcomics. She is also: - […]
The XR Community is meeting, in person, this October in Lisbon, Portugal to connect, learn and grow the AR and VR ecosystem. Join this inspiring community of XR professionals; An XR ecosystem marketplace where end-users meet solution providers in a curated setting. The 5th AWE EU: 2 days on the bleeding edge of AR/VR 200+ speakers, including […]
gamescom Asia aims to serve as the premier platform for Southeast Asian game developers to explore partnerships and expand their audiences globally. For international studios, we are the stepping stone into the Southeast Asian region, reaching fans and talent within one of the fastest growing games markets in the world. gamescom asia is the satellite […]
GameSoundCon: 25-26 October, 2022 Los Angeles, CA and Online GameSoundCon the game music, sound design and virtual reality audio conference normally held annually in Los Angeles, is both live and online for 2022. The largest professional conference on game music and sound design features sessions and panels on the creative, technical and business issues of […]
Are you a game developer looking for a challenge to hone and showcase your Programming and/or Art Skills? Games Job Fair—a recruitment, networking, and career-building event for the games industry—is preparing something special for you during its October iteration. The 3-Day (Oct 26-28) online, free for talents event hosts games studios from Europe such as […]
Get ready for Global Games Pitch — Mobile Games in November! 🔥 It’s an international online pitching event where you’ll have a chance to get your game noticed by publishers and investors from all over the world. 🚀 You'll get access to the database of publishers and investors and an opportunity to write to them […]
The India Game Developer Conference (IGDC) is India's premier game developers conference! Now in its 14th year, IGDC is the biggest and the most significant developer conference in not only India, but South Asia. The conference plays a key role in developing the Indian Gaming ecosystem; from helping developers gain valuable insight and pick up […]
Explore the process of adding voices to videogames, and how characters are portrayed and cast over hundreds of hours of gameplay. Go along to GET YOUR GAME ON, the ONLY event in the world dedicated to voice-acting for videogames, in LA on November 4th to find out firsthand. What can you expect at GET YOUR […]
The IGDA LocSIG is happy to announce that Katrina Leonoudakis will join us for our next live AMA about localization engineering! Katrina Leonoudakis is a Japanese to English localization specialist focused on audiovisual media. Her translation work has been featured on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Crunchyroll. She has an MA in translation from Kent […]
Is your game's data architecture in good health? You might be surprised by what you find.
Refactoring code to manage sessions, event structures, and changing the way calls are made will cost you release cycles and significant data loss. In this webinar, we'll cover three topics to help you avoid these issues: (1) million dollar mistakes to avoid when storing data for your games; (2) tips and tricks seasoned gaming companies employ to become 10x more efficient; and (3) core infrastructure components you should implement before hiring your analytics and data teams.
If you can build games with a data architecture plan from the start, you will save time, money, and headaches. Everyone on your team from data analyst to executive will thank you for making their job a little easier.
Africa Games Week is the ultimate conference exploring the business of video games in Africa. Bringing together industry leaders from across Africa and the World, conferences hosted include Make Games Africa, Africa Stream Con, and the African legs of Games 4 Change New York, and the USA Mobile Growth Association Summit, both running their Africa […]
The IGDA is officially founded in central Virginia!! This is the second of two pilot events in 2022 to gauge interest in connecting all the game developers from Charlottesville to Richmond to Virginia Beach. Our initial goal is to increase awareness of game development across the region and build our network of game industry professionals […]
An annual award show to celebrate work done by Utah game developers in the past year. The flyer is ready (Thank you Nathan Platt!) so we can start sharing this around. Take it to any libraries, schools, or game stores you visit, and post the link to your social networks if you like! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VhrJMDxd3QX8ZNpJWGEi_wjXhZ0xGRlf2S5rNRSxmT0/edit?usp=sharing
Register for the webinar here. Event Details A friendly contest? Why yes! In this IGDA webinar, three game devs will champion their use case of text to speech (TTS) in their games. Namely: Accessibility, Character Voices, and Prototyping. A refresher: text to speech is what it says in the name, you write or generate a piece […]
The IGDA wants to provide 500 new developers (or more!) with an IGDA membership, and we'd love your support in reaching this goal. A sponsorship from you would allow us to provide a new cohort of IGDA members with valuable networking opportunities, access to a global community of IGDA chapters and special interest groups, mentorship, […]
Come join your local game developer friends to swap pandemic tales and development highlights! This will be a casual networking event at St. Augustine's, located conveniently near the SkyTrain. Please be sure to RSVP (Facebook | LinkedIn) so we may inform the venue of our group size!
Come join the Indianapolis game developers for an evening of.. whatever. Game design, game testing, demoing new builds. Social chatter, networking. Brainstorming new dumb game ideas. Talking about the weather. Come prepared with some thoughts on what you've been working on recently. And ready to chat with others about the same.
DevGAMM will hold its first conference in Gdańsk, Poland at the AmberExpo on March 1-2. DevGAMM Gdańsk will be done in collaboration with Digital Vikings, which was born out of an idea of matching indie developers with publishers and investors. The game developers can already submit games for DevGAMM Showcase, to present their projects to […]
One of the longest running academic conferences in the Midwest returns! Shawnee State University presents: Shawnee Game Conference! March 10-11, 2023. Featuring a gaming expo, speakers and panels composed of gaming and gaming adjacent industry professionals, competitions, and more, this conference is a celebration of Appalachian gaming. Register here to secure your visitor pass or […]
Hey Everyone! We're back at it and it's time to kick (re)start our monthly mixer! We're going to be at a cool game taproom called GameCraft. They have lots of space, TVs tuned into Twitch, and tasty food/drinks! Oh, and they brew their own delicious beer. They're right off the 5 freeway at the Lake […]
Come join your local game developer friends to swap pandemic tales and development highlights! This will be a casual networking event at St. Augustine's, located conveniently near the SkyTrain. Please be sure to RSVP so we may inform the venue of our group size! St. Augustine's 2360 Commercial Drive Vancouver, BC, Canada V5N 4B7 Hosted by […]
The IGDA LocSIG is happy to announce that Brandon Huffman will join us for our next live AMA! Brandon J. Huffman is an attorney and founder of Odin Law and Media, which focuses on counseling video game and interactive media clients on issues related to content, licensing, publishing, intellectual property, privacy and internet regulatory issues, […]
Are you going to GDC and do you want to plan more meetings ahead? Get your tickets for MeetToMatch - The San Francisco Edition, powered by Xsolla and start your trade show with an agenda filled with relevant meetings. MeetToMatch – The San Francisco Edition is your most relevant platform for business in the games […]
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) brings the game development community together to exchange ideas, solve problems, and shape the future of the industry across five days of education, inspiration, and networking. Attendees include programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, and business leaders. IGDA members can save 10% on GDC 2022 All Access, Core, Online Only, […]
Join IGDA, Unreal Engine, Modulate, and other industry communities over good food/drink, memorable entertainment, and meaningful networking.
Location: Doughnuts and Dragons Time: 6:30 to 8:00 Come join the Indianapolis game developers for an evening of.. whatever. Game design, game testing, demoing new builds. Social chatter, networking. Brainstorming new dumb game ideas. Talking about the weather. Come prepared with some thoughts on what you've been working on recently. And ready to chat with […]
Come celebrate the reopening of IGDA Austin chapter with us! This mixer will include free snacks and drinks (non-alcoholic) as well as the opportunity to socialize and network with our past members and veteran developers. See y'all there!
The IGDA and da Vinci Center present a live event with Independent video game developer, Rami Ismail. Participants will learn what it takes to turn a dream game into a funded title, and a chance for live Q&A with one of the most influential people in the video games industry. Named in Forbes "30 under […]
Gain an understanding on where to start on developing a security package for small business. Talking points will cover the current landscape of security threats and how the remote/COVID environment has changed our need secure our companies and customers more. Additionally, “why security matters and where to start” will be addressed with opportunities to ask […]
XP Game Developer Summit coming to the Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, April 20 – 21, 2023 Join hundreds of video game professionals and help shape the future of Canadian gaming! The XP Game Developer Summit is back and has leveled up! Connect with industry professionals from around the world to foster collaboration, exchange knowledge, and […]
IGDA Vancouver's monthly casual meetup for any and all game developers in the area.
Building a Localization Studio From The Void The IGDA LocSIG is happy to announce that Marc Eybert-Guillon, director of the localization studio From The Void, will join us for our next live AMA! Marc has been working as a professional game translator since 2017. Known (a little) at the start for having reworked some of […]
IGDA Delhi presents Gamedev Meetup! A day dedicated to celebrating gamedevs of Delhi, Noida, Gurugram, and around. Join us for a curated experience highlighting the superstars of Indian gamedev, micro-talks, and casual networking.
Come out to share a drink or two (or none) with other games industry folk, and chat about your wonders and woes, on Thursday the 18th, for IGDA Vancouver's monthly meetup.
Webinar Details The goal of this webinar is to share how game companies can enhance their talent acquisition strategies by leveraging the experience and expertise of candidates who are returning to the workforce after a gap in employment. Learn from reacHIRE's very own Program Manager, Laura Shackelford, and T-Mobile Returnship Participant, Ramalakshmi Nataraja, as they […]
As the leading games conference in Europe we have a lot to offer! This year, the Nordic Game experience is online as well as at the beautiful venue being in Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden, filled with the best speakers from the global industry and our own Nordic heroes. You'll have access to countless games industry […]
Baltic Dev Days, Europe's largest international non-profit B2B video game developer conference, invites you to Kiel on June 1 to 2, 2023 for cross-industry knowledge transfer and networking. After a three-year break due to the Corona outbreak, the game developer conference Baltic Dev Days returns. The event will take place on June 1 and 2 […]
The IGDA and Gallery 5 present a live event with Independent video game studio heads from Mohawk Games (Old World, Offworld Trading Company), and Farbridge (RWBY Grimm Eclipse, Walkabout Mini Golf, Unnanounced Gearbox Project). Speakers for this event will be in-person, travelling to Richmond to help us build game development in Central Virginia. CEO of […]
When: 15 - 16 June 2023, 6pm (CEST) / 12pm (EDT) Where: Online, Free ICE is a conference dedicated to the disciplines encompassing all creative processes around 3D environments, from concept and design to final result. The emerging line-up features exciting speakers from games and film, including Rolf Mohr (Insomniac, Disney, Dreamworks etc.) and Michael […]
IGDA Vancouver monthly social meetup for June. Open to everyone in the games industry in (or visiting) Vancouver.
This summer, 1,000+ major studios, publishers, investors, and developers are getting together in the sunny capital of Lithuania for two days of DevGAMM x Vilnius '23. Expect top-notch sessions, an exciting games showcase and some of the finest networking mingles around! If you’ve been working on something, this is your chance to get the word […]
GDC Showcase is an all-digital event designed to bring the global game dev community together with exciting sessions, live networking opportunities, and more–happening this 27-29 June! GDC Showcase will feature past GDC session highlights as well as all-new pre-recorded sessions with live speaker Q&As in the chat, live fireside chats, and insights from some of […]
