Catch the GDWC Award Show on Sept 21

The Game Development World Championship is closing the 2023 Summer Season with an Awards Stream on Thursday September 21st at 18:00 EEST / UTC+3.

Catch the show on the GDWC YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thegdwc

The Summer Season, had only three and a half months of submission time and attracted over 1800 games submitted from 100+ countries. From this pool of games the jury has selected 58 nominees & finalists in 11 categories.

See all the Finalists on the GDWC website: https://thegdwc.com/#finalists

IGDA Finland Leadership Day 2023 - Get your tickets now!

We invite you to join us on our fifth Leadership Day on the 11th of September at BioRex Helsinki!

Leadership Day by IGDA Finland is an international event about how we build companies, teams and working cultures to build better games. Games companies, their inner workings and cultures are some of the least documented aspects of game development. Yet we and our work are all defined by these choices every single day. Join us in learning and challenging the cutting edge of leadership in games from some of the brightest minds in the industry!

GET A TICKET

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Speakers

Saara Bergström
Next Games / Netflix

Mika Tammenkoski
Metacore

Jaakko Kylmäoja
Fingersoft

Jinesha Gandhi
Redhill Games

Wanda O Rly
Psyon Games

Aki Kanerva
Virtual Air Guitar

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Sponsors

For more info visit our event page

IGDA Future at Assembly 2023

As previous year, we are delighted to welcome you to the workshops and seminars at Assembly 2023, organized by IGDA Future program of IGDA Finland!

To sign up for the workshops, feel free to use this form, but also ad hoc attendance is possible.

Check full program of Assembly Creative Zone and welcome to the party of the year!

POCKET GAMER CONNECTS - Early Bird is Closing!

The leading games industry conference, Pocket Gamer Connects, returns to Finland again on September 12-13 this autumn!

This year over 1,500 games industry professionals will gather in Helsinki to network, discover, pitch and learn from 200 of the world’s top experts. EARLY BIRD tickets are closing this Thursday, August 3rd, make sure to register in time.

IGDA Finland members get a 20% discount with the code IGDAFinland20, get your ticket today!

https://www.pgconnects.com/helsinki/registration/ 

Games Gathering Bratislava Call for Speakers

Games Gathering will be returning to Bratislava with an online and live format taking place from Sep 25-27.

In order to make the event accessible to everyone, particularly those who can’t travel, the 25th will be a one-day online event of talks and networking. The physical conference will kick off with a pre-party on the 25th and run through the 27th at the Hotel Tatra.

The event will feature lectures of industry experts and networking opportunities. The call for speakers is currently open. Apply to speak using this form.

IGDA Finland members can get 10% off their tickets by using promo code IGDA_GGCBratislava23 during checkout.

The Games Gathering team is Ukrainian and 10% of ticket proceeds will be donated to the Gamedev Under Bombs project to help Ukrainians affected by the war.