Christian Oeing - Indie Gameleon

Factsheet

Release date:
September 11th - 15th, 2015

Platforms:
HAW Hamburg

Description

Indie Gameleon is a festival organized by indie game developers, for indie game developers, game design students and indie game enthusiast! The festival includes lectures, indie game showcase, game jam and a chiptune dance party.

In 2015 the festival took place at the HAW – Kunst and Medien Campus in Hamburg, Germany from September 11 until September 15. This strengthened the international reputation of the Northern Game Industry and also stimulated the collaboration between entrepreneurs and organisations across international borders. In addition, hosting Indie Gameleon 2015 aimed at creating and strengthening sustainable international relations and networks between the Dutch and German gaming industry. Indie Gameleon was organized in collaboration between the Groninger and Hamburger game industry in order to meet the international demand.

The festival kicked off on Friday September 11 with the well known Indie Gameleon Game Jam, where you and your co-workers, co-students and/or friends worked together to develop a game within 48 hours based on the subject that was provided for the game jam! After the two day game jam, the festival continued with a two day conference, where interesting lectures, workshops and panels by people from the game industry itself were hold. Next to that a Indie Gameleon showcase was hosted where game developers showed their games to the public. The first evening ended with a 8-Bit Dance Party (featuring excellent music that is generated from game consoles). The second evening ended with a co-host network gathering and opening from the Play Festival.

Features

From indie developers for indie developers!
International organization team
Happened for the first time in Hamburg
Different formats like talks, panels, post mortems,...
48h game jam
Party at the end of each conference day
Showcase for indie developers to present their games

Tasks

Organization of the event together with other organizers from Groningen, Netherlands and Hamburg, Germany
Getting different speakers on board for the conference
Handle communication with the event location (HAW Hamburg) and sponsors (gamecity:Hamburg, InnoGames, Glacéau vitaminwater,...)
Gathering developers to show their games at the showcase
Taking care on-site to make sure everything works out