German Game Studios Open Doors for Girls' Day 2024
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German game studios Deck13, Kalypso, Well Done Games & Pixel Maniacs and Gameforge are inviting teens in for Girls' Day 2024 on April 25. Several universities with gaming relations are also participating in showing girls the games industry and its learning processes.
For this year’s Girls’ Day on April 25, several German gaming studios are opening their door for girls in school year five and upwarts to learn what they do. Well Done Game are organising participation in the co-working space of indie game studio and investor from Nuremberg. The co-working companies are letting girls try out the vocation of game developer, and also offer networking and meeting with women that already work in the games industry. Deck13, prestige studio from Frankfurt am Main, are also offering game development demos. Kalypso Media Group from Worms is offering insights into two publishing ares: QA work and producing. Gameforge from Karlsruhe is concentrating on the IT aspects of game development - from system administration to game programming. Astragon from Düsseldorf is showing the work in their producing department - and is offering a commucation department tour in the corresponding Boys'Day as well.
Several universities with gaming connections are also offering Girls’ Day experiences this year, like Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, University of Augsburg, TU Berlin, SRH Stuttgart and more.
Application for most Girls' Day 2024 activities is open until April 24, if the slots are not filled already.
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Pascal Wagner is Chief of Relations of GamesMarket and Senior Editor specialised in indie studios, politics, funding and academic coverage.
