XOXO Festival features XOXO Arcade: "Play some of the best of the modern indie gaming scene, with a focus on experimental multiplayer games, and meet the designers who made them." Line-up: Quadrilateral Cowboy Musclecat Showdown Killer Queen eleVR Bennett Foddy’s Speed Chess Tenya Wanya Teens Close Castles Night in the Woods Panoramical Please Don’t, Spacedog!
Playful Arts Festival founders Wave of Tomorrow and zo-ii partner up with Incubate in Tilburg to bring music and games to the internationally renowned cutting edge culture festival. Exhibited Games: Fract Icefishing V Memory of a Broken Dimension Soundself Remembering 140 Johann Sebastian Joust Bounden Cave! Cave! Deus Videt Panoramical Soundodger Proteus Pulse Beatbuddy Karmaflow:…
Zürich Game Festival. From the press release: From 18 to 21 September 2014 the first edition of Ludicious – Zurich Game Festival will turn the town into the computer game industry meeting point for innovative emerging talents. From 19 September 2014 a varied programme will also be offered for interested members of the public. Special…
From the website: Fantastic Arcade is a specially selected power-pack of videogames presented during the first week of Fantastic Fest (Sept 18th - 21st) with accompanying tournaments, events, opportunities to meet the creators, and custom old-school arcade cabinets built for the 'arcadiest' of the bunch. All the games selected will be accessible to both festival…
Games and game design festival in Zurich. gameZfestival is a festival for game design and games. The initial Festival was all about game mechanics. This year's dominant topic is "play together". The first video games were all multiplayer games, from Spacewar and TennisForTwo to Pong. The game was the Tabula Rasa that featured odd rules. With…
Fifth annual No Quarter Exhibition. http://gamecenter.nyu.edu/event/no-quarter-exhibition Featuring four new games from established and emerging independent game developers, this year’s show will be hosted at the new Waka Waka space in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. THE GAMES This year’s No Quarter will feature four new games by veteran and rising New York stars: Dog…
Inviting spectators and players to Incubate Arcade Live, meet composers of game soundtracks. Experience the games on a big screen while the composers play the soundtracks live. Incubate Arcade Live is a live event at theatre De NWE Vorst where composers of game audio/ soundtracks accompany live play sessions of the respective games. Visitors can…
Showcase for Dutch indie games organized by Dutch Game Garden. Deadline for game submission: 4 August 23:59. News item with submission deadline. (in Dutch) News item (English) From the website: Dutch Game Garden presents 32 new games by developers from the Netherlands at their yearly INDIGO showcase. Among the games are RIVE, the new game from…
Indie Video Game Night Time Roughhousing. Tickets: http://wildrumpus6.eventbrite.com/
Multimedia Arts Festival - Exhibition, performances, meet-ups. Official Website: http://www.festival-gamerz.com From the Lab GAMERZ website: Exhibition : Fondation Vasarely : Exposition Copie Copains Club – Guillaume Stagnaro – Paul Destieu – Isabelle Arvers – Georgie Roxbie Smith – Angela Washko – Anita Fontaine – Art of Failure – Yro, Bernard Szajner, Jesse Lucas & Erwan Raguenes – Lucien…
Festival for Playful Public Spaces in Kraków, Poland. Curated by Invisible Playground. Theme: Momentary States From the website: Take a moment and consider your world as a playground. Think of the busy intersection you cross every day and the building you live in. The majestic church or the shady bar you might visit on the weekend. Follow…
PLAY is a games conference that brings together world-renowned speakers and indie developers on October 3rd for a day packed with talks. The event is part of the Viborg Animation Festival and takes place right next to the Games Expo, where visitors are encouraged to stop by and try out new games. Talks from industry-leading…
Indie Games Festival. From the website: The IndieCade Festival is the biggest independent game celebration in the United States. This premiere event is held each October in the Los Angeles Area and is open to the industry and to the public. Events October 9th - 12th, 2014 include a professional conference track, business networking, social…
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,…
Looking for more game industry events?
Check Jurie Horneman’s excellent gameconfs directory.
Looking for festival submission deadlines?
Have a look at the excellent promoter app calendar.
Events for the Dutch industry:
Game Industrie Kalender / DGG / Courage Events
