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Maria Chyrvonaya

Mar 02
4

DevGAMM Moscow 2016: Game ON

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Website

Missed us?:)

Minsk was almost three months ago. Wow. This was a pretty busy winter for our team. You’ve probably noticed since you are reading this on our new website! Yes, we did it! We finally rebuilt it from scratch.

Now DevGAMM has a new look, responsive design and a mobile-friendly version! To anticipate your questions, Russian version is coming soon. The idea is to make your preparations to next conference as easy and enjoyable as possible.
That reminds us. DevGAMM is coming back to Moscow this May. Yay!

DevGAMM Moscow 2016

DevGAMM_Hotel

Time to go to your calendars and book the dates. May 12-13. Don’t forget to add Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel to description. Basically same time and place as last year.

Our annual get together for game industry professionals is expected to attract more than 1500 people. But this time we made sure we could fit in even more! Oh, and this is the moment we tell you about the new and exciting things we have in store for DevGAMM Moscow 2016.

So let’s start with the venue. If you were at DevGAMM last year, the new map will definitely get you excited! We added two extra halls to the layout and one of them is going to hold most of the surprises.

Yes, the Blue Hall will be the reign of Microsoft, our new Diamond Partner. This means that you will get lots of great technical content in one place and more( we will reveal everything a bit later).

Call For Speakers

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Speaking of content. The call for speakers is open!
If you have an experience in one of the following fields, you’d like to share with fellow game industry enthusiasts, we are looking forward to your submissions. Deadline is March 31st

  • Development & QA
  • Game Design & Narrative
  • Art & Animation
  • Sound & Audio
  • Successful Games Postmortems
  • Publishing & Platforms
  • Technology & VR
  • eSports
  • Livestreaming

Become a speaker

NB! Do you have insight into game narrative, scriptwriting or storytelling? Submit your talk for narrative track right now.

We’ve already confirmed speakers from Twitch, CD Projekt RED, Microsoft, tinyBuild, Amazon, Unity, Epic Games and more. The announcements are coming soon.

Opportunities

DevGAMM has a wide range of sponsorship options for big and small companies. Let us help you make your presence at the event unforgettable.

Sponsorship Proposal

Holders of Business badges will have access to Pitch&Match system to make the most of the networking opportunities this event presents.

What is Pitch & Match

Game submissions for DevGAMM Awards, GAMM:Play Showcase and Game Lynch will open by the end of March. Stay tuned to learn the exact date. Traditionally, all you need is a ticket.

Tickets

Early bird tickets will be available till March 31st. We considered the exchange rate fluctuation in Russia and tried to keep our prices as low as possible.

IndieTicket

$ 75

Early Bird
  • Access to all sessions & Participant’s bag
  • Coffee breaks & Parties
  • Games Hub Activities
  • Only Name on Badge
  • Pitch & Match Profile
  • Business Lounge Access
  • Wi-Fi

BusinessTicket

$ 150

Early Bird
  • Access to all sessions & Participant’s bag
  • Coffee breaks & Parties
  • Games Hub Activities
  • Company, Position and Name on Badge
  • Pitch & Match Profile
  • Business Lounge Access
  • Wi-Fi

Jan 22
1

New year, new website

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We are happy to finally reveal our renewed DevGAMM website!

It’s still in development but we were anxious to share it with you as soon as possible.

Coming soon:
– Russian version of the website.
– Pages under construction will be availble by the end of February.
– Game submissions will open in March. Get your projects ready.

Registration for DevGAMM Moscow 2016 will open on February 19th!

Jan 22
1

Throwback to DevGAMM Minsk 2015

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Last week was the second time Minsk welcomed one of the biggest game industry events in CIS. While in Belarus DevGAMM is now the only event of this scale with around 1000 people from 25 countries attending.

Minsk Logo

More than 40 DevGAMM sessions were targeted at people coming from different backgrounds and different levels of experience. This way both beginner developers and trained professionals benefited from the conference.

Minsk 2015 Speakers

During this year the conference shifted focus from social and mobile games to hardcore development for desktop, consoles, VR and AR devices. DevGAMM Minsk hot topics included e-sport, Twitch and Youtube for developers, indie apocalypse to name a few.

Minsk 2015 Speakers

If you were wondering what sessions to watch at DevGAMM Youtube channel next week here are a few tips. Keep your eye on Stan Just and his session about production cycle of The Witcher 3. Learn how Transformice unexpectedly became a hit wonder from Melanie Christin. Understand Twitch better with Jon Carnage’s talk. Also take a look at extra useful sessions from Microsoft, Nvidia, Unity, Epic Games, Facebook, Wargaming, IMVU and tinyBuild.

Minsk 2015 Speakers

Each DevGAMM organizers introduce something new to the conferenсe agenda. This time Pitch & Match and Service Showcase took on that part. Pitch & Match system, which is used widely at conferences around the world finally landed at DevGAMM. 500 meetings in two days made DevGAMM one of the top three conferences by the number of conducted meetings.
Meanwhile Service Showcase helped companies to attract potential clients, who were looking for localization, quality sound or marketing support.

Minsk 2015 Networking

However games were still in the spotlight. GAMM:Play Showcase had around 50 amazing projects competing for audience attention, while more than 80 developers submitted their games to the contest.

Every Speed Game Dating stream came with a big line of developers looking to hijack the list of 40 lucky participants for a chance to meet lots of publishers in an hour.

Minsk 2015 Showcase

Conferences may be about business development, but they are actually a great way to break out of everyday routine. Three parties hosted at DevGAMM Minsk were meant to do just that. Free beer, snacks and happy faces created a perfect environment for networking and easy conversations.There are good reasons why relationships established at the informal functions often lead to fruitful collaborations in the future. Parties were sponsored by Melesta and Renatus Media.

Minsk 2015 Party

All those who stayed till last few hours of the conference dived straight into the festive mood. Hilarious Game Lynch, epic DevGAMM Awards and People of the Year ceremony made this evening unforgettable.

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Thanks to the amazing expert lineup Game Lynch went perfect. If you can use the word ‘perfect’ to describe lightsabre fights, drinking races and nerf gun duels. New trial by combat feature fit right in. Jokes, booze, steel-hearted developers make Game Lynch one of a kind event in all history of game industry conferences.

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The biggest surprise of the conference was music break with Ressa Schwarzwald and Stanislav Polesko from Strategic Music doing covers of famous game soundtrack.

People of the Year Award organized together with VC.ru acknowledged the most influential industry leaders such as Maksim Donskih, Leonid Sirotin, Sergey Orlovsky and Viktor Kisly.

Minsk 2015 VC.ru

DevGAMM Awards was the grand finale of the event where the audience learned the names of the games that won in 10 nominations. Mike Rose and Lerika Mallayeva, co-hosts of the ceremony, made the whole room of people laughing out loud with their amazing sketches.

Minsk 2015 Awards

Winner List:

Grand Prize (sponsored by RJ Games)
Game: The Final Station
Developer: Oleg Sergeev and Andrey Rumak

Excellence in Visual Art (sponsored by Fibrum)
Game: Fold The World
Developer: Eon games

Excellence in Game Design
Game: Steam Panic
Developer: NOD Group

Excellence in Narrative (sponsored by All Correct Group)
Game: Breached
Developer: Twisted Pilot

Excellence in Audio (sponsored by RJ Games)
Game: Summer Catchers
Developer: Eugene Siryk

Best Indie Game (sponsored by tinyBuild GAMES)
Game: SKYHILL
Developer: Mandragora

Best Mobile Game (sponsored by Casual Connect)
Game: Fold The World
Developer: Eon games

Best Desktop Game
Game: SKYHILL
Developer: Mandragora

Game Lynch Award
Game: SaviorX – The Story Of Life
Developer: Gediminas Siutilas

Best of GAMM:Play Showcase (sponsored by Wargaming.net)
Game: One Day in London
Developer: OWL-studio

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Sponsor companies did their best to entertain the attendees throughout the event. Nekki hosted a tournament for Shadow Fight 3 players with beautiful Japanese swords at stake. Vizor Interactivebooth stood out because of the huge electronic graffiti wall, which allowed to create and print a drawing on the spot. Those who took photos for Instagram on the first day of the conference received their pictures printed with the custom frame at Puzzle Dreams booth.

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This year was a huge accomplishment for DevGAMM with three events in Moscow, Hamburg and Minsk. This became possible only due to the support of the Renatus company.

So where do you see us next? Moscow!
Save the date: May 12-13, 2016