"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…
DutchGameMusic presents: A concert evening with Indie Game Music, performed by LUDWIG. First Indie Game Music concert in The Netherlands. Confirmed music from composers such as: Daniel Rosenfeld (Minecraft), Magnus Pålsson (VVVVVV), Rich Vreeland (Fez), Kyle Gabler (World of Goo), Jim Guthrie (Sword & Sworcery), Jessica Curry (Dear Esther), and many others. Also, there will be…
Dutch Games Association presents: DGA Day 2013 with the theme: "Player Experience" hosted by NHTV in Breda. How do players experience games? That is an interesting question for people that make games. On March 7 the Player Experience theme will be discussed from various points of views, both academic and more practical. The DGA day…
A new Indie Game Developer Festival in Groningen, the Netherlands on March 8,9,10,11 2013 hosted by the ORKZ in Groningen. "Indie Gameleon is a non-profit festival to celebrate and support Indie Game Developers in the Netherlands, The festival features: - Several lectures and workshops from within the lregional Games Industry - Documentaries on Game development…
bART & Digitale Werkplaats present: Game-City An Artistic Experience exhibition Game-City was a 7-week spanning event in 's Hertogenbosch in 2011. Now it tours around the country with Enschede being the first touchdown. Game-City explores the connections between art, daily life and games. A combination of old and new classic Independent Games will be…
PAX East - Boston - 3 day game festival PAX is a three-day gaming festival for gamers of all genres to come together and celebrate the culture of gaming. Unreleased games, big booths, fabulous prizes, game music concerts, the gaming community and industry support. Exhibition Concerts Panels Game areas Indie Showcase Website
INDIGO - annual showcase for Dutch Indie Games goes San Francisco for GDC 2013. From the website: In a bold gesture embracing a burgeoning industry, The Dutch Consulate in San Francisco opens its doors to videogames. Called INDIGO, 20 game developers from the Netherlands will show their best and upcoming titles to an international audience…
"The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the world's largest and longest-running professionals-only game industry event." "This market defining conference features over 400 lectures, panels, tutorials and round-table discussions on a comprehensive selection of game development topics taught by leading industry experts. In addition, the GDC expo showcases all of the most relevant game development tools,…
Annual Summit + Award Show + Expo for Indie Game Developers at GDC IGF during GDC consists of three different events: The Independent Games Festival Pavilion The Independent Games Festival Awards The Independent Games Summit Website
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Events for the Dutch industry:
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