Come join us for the Dutch 7DFPS Kick-Off on Saturday June 9 at Dutch Game Garden. The 7DFPS challenge is initiated by Jan Willem Nijman (Vlambeer) and a collaboration with Sos Sosowski. The worldwide event is a community effort and challenges people to look past the obvious first person shooter games and create some new…
Sign up at the FB Event to join. Art Jam? We are pitching a transmedia project at the Cross Video Days in Paris in June, and want to bring artists together beforehand to think about the visualization of the project, exchange ideas and create some (concept) art. We will be selecting some of the artwork…
Together with mediaZOO / AKA Film, zo-ii will attend Cross Video Days to pitch their text adventure 2.0 as part of the Transmedia project LOUD. Part of the project is experimenting with form and content and ways of collaboration. Therefore we're also organizing a Game Art Jam right before the Cross Video Days. Cross Video Days From…
Cosmopolite performing arts debate - Kosmopolitische podiumkunsten in debat ComMotie - Game Over with the subtitle: "Performing arts and Games - A Match Made in Heaven?" will be a "User Generated debate with theatrical and musical installations". The debate will cover questions such as 'what happens to the autonomous artist when the spectator becomes part of the performance or…
Graduates of Design for Virtual Theatre and Games (DVTG), soon to be known as Interactive Performance Design and Games (IPDG) at the HKU will showcase their graduation projects in Utrecht, June 14-16. I had the honor to be their Media & Games theory lecturer in their first two years at DVTG and am looking forward…
7DFPS participants will create FPS (-based) games in just 7 days. But what games will they make? Come find out June 17th in Utrecht where participants will show and tell about the games they've made, what thoughts they had and how it all went during those 7 days. Are you a participant yourself? Don't…
A proper indie games arcade like Babycastles in Rotterdam, The Netherlands? It looks like it is going to happen! The brilliant WORM organization brings the famous Babycastles crew to Rotterdam and have them do a workshop for creating game arcade cabinets. From the event post: Join Kunal Gupta (Babycasltes), Syed Salahuddin (Babycastles), Thu Tran (Food…
La Gaité Lyrique transformed into an immense playground of new ways to play! From the website: All summer long at La Gaîté lyrique, Joue le jeu / Play Along showcases new forms of games that are at the heart of the emerging golden age of creative game design. Prepare to be entertained. This exhibition isn't a static retrospective,…
The Creative Game Challenge is running for the third year in a row. The usual Creative Game Challenge is a challenge for high school students in The Netherlands where they can send in games with a particular theme. In 2012 the theme was 'botsingen' or collision / crashes. This year is the first time that…
Featuring 125+ playable games, Game Masters celebrates the world's most influential game designers, including Peter Molyneux, Warren Spector and Tim Schafer. From the website: Across arcades, consoles, PC and mobile platforms, the exhibition showcases the work of over 30 videogame designers, from Nintendo's iconic character-led worlds featuring Mario and Link, to the deeply immersive stealth…
"The International Game Architecture and Design program (IGAD) of NHTV University of Applied Sciences holds the Industry, Never Ending Conference Event and Game Release Party on Thursday 5th of July. The Industry event will showcase the best games, graduation projects and course work by the students this year. The Never Ending Conference event will…
Sundance winner Indie Game The Movie has been receiving quite a lot of attention and critiques. Now it is time to let The Netherlands get familiar with the film as well. We have announced a date and made a proper website with all the available info: http://www.igtm.nl Screening info: Date: 24 July Doors open: 18:30…
"From August 3 - 9, Lunarcade and Serial Space bring you a week of experimental independent games" From the FB Event Page: SPATIAL NARRATIVE is a collection of works that experiment with exploration. They let us probe game worlds with minimalist or avant garde landscapes, engage in experimental storytelling in a virtual space, and negotiate…
Festival for Playful Public Spaces 9-12 August 2012 in Berlin From the website: From Berlin, PLAYPUBLIK explores what playful public spaces mean for urban societies: from digitally commercialized cities of western democracies, to new post-socialist spaces in Budapest; from Jo'Burg after the end of apartheid to Street Games in Athens during the financial crisis. PLAYPUBLIK…
"The Game Developers Conference™ Europe (GDC Europe) is the largest professionals-only games industry event in Europe" From the website: GDC Europe will be held in conjunction with gamescom, the leading European consumer show, creating a full week of activity and opportunity for the games industry. GDC Europe is the essential platform for learning, inspiration, and…
Brand new video game industry event in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From the website: "Got Game Conference (August 20 & and 21, 2012) is a brand new video game industry event that focuses on perpetuating and growing the video game industry through the exchange of knowledge and ideas, locally and globally. Located in the heart of Amsterdam, Got…
"The Babycastles summit is a three-day series of talks, panels, bands, hands-on workshops and custom video game installations designed by Keita Takahashi, game designer of Japan’s Katamari Damacy. The summit will be hosted by the Museum of Art and Design from August 24th through the 26th as part of the “Fun Fellowship”. Website: http://babycastles.com/summit Facebook Event…
The goal of the A MAZE. Interact Festival in Johannesburg in South Africa is to create an annual evolving platform for African and European media artists and game developers. A playground for everyone who wants to experience the Human-Human-Machine interaction. A MAZE. provides a six day program with lectures, panels, screenings, arcade, interactive installations, street…
Registration: http://dgadag2012.eventbrite.com Dutch Games Association, the branche organization for the Dutch games industry is organizing another DGA Dag. Theme of the day: PR Making games is one thing, promoting your game another. How can you make your game stand out and gain attention of the press? DGA invites a couple of speakers that will give more…
Pax Prime 2012: "The Megabooth brings 30 of the most creative studios together in one place. They’re showing off 32+ titles, making it the highest concentration of inventive, quirky, great games and game studios on the entire PAX floor." From the website: Fun Facts About the Indie Megabooth The Megabooth brings 30 of the most…
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Events for the Dutch industry:
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