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 - 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: "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: 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 - 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 -…
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 - 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…
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…
Indie videogame night roughhousing - The Wild Rumpus Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wild-rumpus-5-tickets-9667625127
Global Game Jam 2014 - Worldwide http://www.globalgamejam.org
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 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,…
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…
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Events for the Dutch industry:
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