Portside Game Assembly Is a New B2B Conference for Indie Game Leaders
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With the Portside Game Assembly, Gamecity Hamburg welcomes studio heads and directors from successful indie game studios to a new B2B conference on a ship and other locations in Hamburg.
The Portside Game Assembly will celebrate its premiere as a B2B conference for international indie game leaders on 27 June 2025, organised by Gamecity Hamburg. There will be no direct ticket sales for the conference, instead a curated list of attendees will ensure that only studio heads and decision makers will attend the conference on board a ship sailing through the port of Hamburg. Interested studio heads and decision makers from established indie game studios can register here. The event is set to be a platform for decision makers and studio leads to exchange ideas, learn from each other, and face the challenges of the games industry through collaboration.
Simultaneously, the Networking Brunch and the Games Industry Party are open as networking events for interested parties from the games industry to bring platform owners, publishers and game companies in contact with the conference participants. Studio heads from Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, France, Spain, Canada, the USA and Germany are already on board for the conference.
Benjamin Laulan, Co-Founder of Evil Empire (Dead Cells, The Rogue Prince of Persia), will give a keynote on the Triple-i Initiative started by the French studio about creating an own announcement space. Also on board is Philomena Schwab, Founder of Stray Fawn Studio (Dungeon Clawler, The Wandering Village). She will give a talk on ways to validate game ideas. The Portside Game Assembly programme consists of keynotes, short talks and roundtables.
Selection of already confirmed participants: - Evil Empire (Dead Cells, The Rogue Prince of Persia) / France - Stray Fawn Studio (Dungeon Clawler, The Wandering Village) / Switzerland - The Game Kitchen (Blasphemous I & II) / Spain - Toukana Interactive (Dorfromantik) / Germany - Ghost Ship Publishing (Deep Rock Galactic) / Denmark - Landfall Games (Content Warning, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator) / Sweden - Chasing Carrots (Halls of Torment) / Germany - Foulball Hangover (Hydroneer) / UK - Siege Camp (Foxhole) / Canada
For conference participants, there will be an Opening Mixer on the 15th floor of the Astra Tower on the evening of the day before, 26 June 2025, with a view over Hamburg, in the rooms and with the support of Bytro Labs.
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