Academy > Game Marketing About this Q&A In this Q&A session, Stephanie van Lith and Nick Weismann from Game Drive share their marketing experience. Game Drive offers strategic and metrics-driven game marketing and consultancy for their clients. In this...
Academy > Sound design for Indies About this Q&A Eduardo Ortiz Frau is a freelance sound designer for video games. He worked on well-known indie games like Everything, Gorogoa, and The Stanley Parable. In this Q&A session, he shares tips on how to get...
Academy > Apply for Grants About this Q&A In this Q&A session we talked to Benny Douwenga and Lex Preusting from Ugoo, a company that gives advice on subsidies. Benny and Lex explain the different kind of grants there are in the Netherlands, which...
Academy > User Story Experiments About this Q&A Niels ‘t Hooft combines his knowledge of literature and technology in his projects and calls himself a ‘Hybrid Writer’. Niels shares his experiences with the user study he did for his novel De Verdwijners and the...
Academy > Analyzing Your Player Data About this Q&A In 2003, the founders of InnoGames started creating their first game called Tribal Wars. It’s still on the market in 2018. More and more players joined and in 2007 the developers started the company InnoGames....
Generally, we know games to be entertaining and challenging, but in truth they can also carry restrictive or stigmatising messages. Playing Architecture is curated by Mélanie van der Hoorn, a
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Generally, we know games to be entertaining and challenging, but in truth they can also carry restrictive or stigmatising messages. Playing Architecture is curated by Mélanie van der Hoorn, a cultural anthropologist, and designed by Dafne Wiegers (AHH), architect. The exhibition invites you to play, wonder and critically reflect on the nature and role of architecture games, with a wide array of Amsterdam-related examples.
The exhibition will be on display at Arcam from December 10 until May 28, 2023.
In the coming months, the Creative Europe Agency in Brussels will be organizing several online information sessions about various subsidy schemes. The aim of this call is
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In the coming months, the Creative Europe Agency in Brussels will be organizing several online information sessions about various subsidy schemes. The aim of this call is to increase the capacity of European video game producers, XR studios and audiovisual production companies to develop video games and interactive experiences for a global audience.The support is aimed at improving the competitiveness of the European video games industry while preserving the intellectual property of the European developers.
The session is aimed at particular studios so be sure to find out whether or not you fit the criteria for support here. You can also find the link to the online session on that page.
Join us in Utrecht on the 11th of January for our monthly Network Lunch!
Every first Wednesday of the month, Dutch Game Garden hosts a free networking lunch for the
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Join us in Utrecht on the 11th of January for our monthly Network Lunch!
Every first Wednesday of the month, Dutch Game Garden hosts a free networking lunch for the Dutch game industry in Utrecht. It is an opportunity for creative professionals, teachers, project leaders, future interns, students, potential clients, and others interested in the industry to meet, mingle and share their projects and questions.
Program (12:00 – 14:00)
12:00 – Doors open
12:05 – Opening presentation and announcements from Dutch Game Garden
12:10 – Shout-outs – share your announcement or question in 3 sentences!
12:15 – Lunch with games showcases
Showcasing
Want to showcase a game live during the Network Lunch and get valuable feedback? You can and it’s free, but we have limited spots available each lunch.
Dutch Game Garden can provide an office desk with a screen and power sockets or an INDIGO Cabinet, but please note that you need to bring your own laptop and mouse/keyboard/controllers.
More info and sign up through the showcasing form.
On 17 January 2023, HAN and SAGANET are organizing a major meeting on gamification
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On 17 January 2023, HAN and SAGANET are organizing a major meeting on gamification and serious games in education.There will be workshops with a showcase of all kinds of projects that are running at the 14 academies of the HAN University of Applied Sciences, and speakers from SAGANET about serious gaming and measuring effect.
Schedule:
Walk-in 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m
Keynote Serious Games, and Measuring Effect during your Game 2.30 pm to 3.15 pm
Workshops 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Networking and showcases: 4:30-5:00 pm
Drinks after 5 p.m., at an adjoining venue
Only for SAGANET members there will be dinner nearby.
The workshops:
1. Citizen science games (Frank Bovenkerk) (in English)
2. Skilled trees & programmatic testing (Ingeborg van den Heuvel) (in English)
3. Ethics of (game) didactics;about balance and content (Koen) (in Dutch)
4. Gamification arena (game canvas) (Stephan Plat) (in Dutch)
5. Game storm (building mind maps) (Daniel Harmsen) (in English)
The Creative Europe Media Desks of the Netherlands and Flanders invite you to a Dutch online info session about the open call Videogames & Immersive Content Development 2023 (
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The Creative Europe Media Desks of the Netherlands and Flanders invite you to a Dutch online info session about the open call Videogames & Immersive Content Development 2023 (DEVVGIM). De call is there to support the first phase of the development of a narrative videogame or immersive content.
The session features general information about the call and a good practice presentation (in English) by Sébastien Letouze (Exiin). Deadline for the open call is March 1 2023. More information in Dutch is available on the website of Creative Europe Desk NL. You can also find a link to the English version of the open call on the EU Funding and Tenders Portal.
Registration (Deadline: January 26, 17:00):
Register for free before the given deadline here.
