© Screenshot Development A Maze Awards: Winners From Around the World The Awards are the highlight of the International Games and Playful Media Festival A Maze. in Berlin. This year the jury chose winners from South Korea, the USA, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Denmark. The Audience Award went to a German indie production. A Maze. took place for the 13th By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Tim Cullins, Mafalda Duarte and Zak Whaley (from left to right) © IGDA People Global Developers Association Elects new Board Members and Appoints new Chair Zak Whaley takes over as Chairman of the IGDA following this year's board elections. He succeeds Margaret Krohn, whose term as Chair ended in March. Two new members are welcomed to the board. The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has a new Chairman of the Board. Following the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Bavarian Digital Minister Fabian Mehring increased the budget for the Games/Bavaria team at Medien.Bayern with Managing Director Lina Timm (2nd from right) at the beginning of the year © Games/Bavaria/Archive picture Business Games/Bavaria Launches its own Accelerator Programme Bavarian game developers have until the end of May to apply for the first round of Games/Bavaria's new Level Up accelerator programme. The programme offers workshops, targeted coaching and free co-working space. The patron of Games/Bavaria's new Level Up accelerator programme is the Bavarian By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The winners of the GamesPreis24 © JFF - Institut für Medienpädagogik Campus GamesFestival24 Counts 1500 Participants The 4th edition of the GamesFestival in Munich was a success, although not a new record year. At the end of the event, the GamesPreis was awarded in the age categories 12 to 18 years and 19 to 26 years. The core theme of this year's GamesFestival, in By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Fully loaded: The top floor of the KunstKulturQuartier in Nuremberg was completely packed with a game dev audience. © GamesMarkt/Pascal Wagner Development Indie Outpost Fills Nuremberg Venue, Speakers Honour Pixel Maniacs By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
© Limbic Entertainment/Bandai Namco Europe People Limbic Entertainment Continues to Grow While other companies are cutting capacity, Bandai Namco Europe's Limbic Entertainment studio has welcomed nine new employees since the beginning of the year. This strategic expansion is also due to the success of Park Beyond, developed by German studio Limbic Entertainment and published by Bandai Namco Europe. Bandai By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Assemble / Marcinek Business Submissions for GDD Indie Awards Open Indie teams from Germany have until 7 June to submit their game for this year's GermanDevDays Indie Award. The prizes in the seven categories are endowed with 10,100 euros, as for the first time the worst game, Best Beaver Poop, is also endowed with 100 euros to By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Margarete Schneider, Project Manager at Gamecity Hamburg © Oliver Reetz Business Games Lift From Gamecity Hamburg Enters Round Five The incubator for game developers at Gamecity Hamburg, Games Lift, is entering its fifth round. Applications for the funding programme can be submitted until 10 June 2024. The location initiative Gamecity Hamburg kicks off the application phase for their Games Lift Incubator 2024. This funding program for game developers in By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© SoundTrack_Cologne Events SoundTrack_Cologne Welcomes Grammy Winners in the Games Section One single day track will once again be dedicated to games at the 21st edition of SoundTrack_Cologne. Even if gaming is only a marginal topic, the line-up is all the better. Alongside Tom Salta and Petri Alanko, Helge Borgarts was able to inspire Grammy winners Stephen Barton and Gordy By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The new Massif Central location in Frankfurt is also positioning itself in the gaming sector © Massif Central Projektgesellschaft Campus Conference for Game Didactics Debuts in Frankfurt On 10 June, the German Conference for Game Didactics will take place for the first time in Frankfurt. Supported by the industry association game, it is to become an annual meeting place for science and teaching. The 1st German Conference for Game Didactics will take place at the Massif Central By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Four of the Game Industry Talks speakers (from left): Tinko Wiezorrek kicks things off on 8 May, Andreas Wilsdorf, Adrian Goersch and Carina Heller will be speaking in June and July. © Hochschule Darmstadt (Media Campus Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences; Screenshots) Campus Games Industry Talks Event Series Continued Following the success of the winter semester, the Media department at Hochschule Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences) is continuing its series of talks with representatives from the games industry. Five events are planned from May to July, focussing on practical topics. The Game Industry Talks lecture series at the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Serious Bros Development Serious Bros. Ports Imagine Earth to Switch and PlayStation Braunschweig studio Serious Bros. is porting their 2021 planet builder Imagine Earth to Switch and PlayStation consoles in May. Serios Bros, the indie development team from Braunschweig, is porting their laid-back sci-fi builder Imagine Earth from to Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The game is currently available on PC By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
