Summary
- 1 What is Indie Dev Day?
- two By developers and for developers
- 3 confirmed activities
- 4 Place and date
- 5 A Game Jam with a great prize
- 6 Where to buy some indie games
A new video game event is always a reason to celebrate, a place where you can enjoy and experience first-hand video games that are not yet available to the public, where you can meet their developers and also exclusively watch world presentations.
And they are cause for even greater celebration when it comes to enterprising small studios looking to nonprofit present to the world the fruit of his effort and his passion: his works, his video games. This is how Indie Dev Day was born, which can be enjoyed in Barcelona.
What is Indie Dev Day?
Indie Dev Day (@IndieDevDay) was born as an event where almost thirty developers have left their skin to offer for free a space where you can enjoy, play and learn about the next Spanish independent video games.
But in addition to the massive participation of independent studios in our country, they have prepared various activities and surprises which we will discuss later. A unique opportunity to see first-hand future games from these studios for all platforms.
By developers and for developers
The initiative was born from the indie studio Nape Games and the blog Retro-o-Rama (Retro-o-Rama). Little by little it was gaining strength and support among developers until it was resolved. Leaving the competition aside, many independent studios in our country have decided to shake hands and carry out a project that they did not know if it would go ahead, but has finally paid off.
The event has been confirmed just a few hours ago from the Indie Dev Day social networks, so we can already prepare. All this work by the developers is worth mentioning on our part, and as players we will be able to see all the news in the event in addition to enjoying the activities.
Currently the main managers are Nape Games and CometCon (@CometConES)
FemDevs
Twitter: @FemDevs
Official website: www.femdevs.org
Women in Games
Twitter: @womeningames
Official website: womeningames.com
Nape Games
Twitter: @NapeGames
Official website: www.napegames.com
Grimoire of Games
Twitter: @GrimorioG
Official website: grimorioofgames.com
Abylight Studios
Twitter: @abylight
Official website: www.abylight.com
1985 Alternative
Twitter: @1985alternate
Official website: 1985alternativo.com
And many more developers have participated directly or indirectly to carry out this project. Both those mentioned and others 22 developers (for the time being) will be present.
confirmed activities
- Game booths by developers
- Arcade machines with classic games
- Arcade machines with indie games
- VR equipment
- Conferences with independent studios in Spain (face-to-face and live)
- Live covers thanks to the participation of the band Belmont’s Revenge (@BelmontsRevenge)
Belmont’s Revenge official website: belmontsrevenge.es
You can consult more updated information from the official website of Indie Dev Day (indiedevday.es) and in addition to all the detailed activities from this link.
What’s more there will be a chillout cafe area to be able to have a drink without having to walk away from the event.
Place and date
The event will take place on next October 27, 2018 at the Barcelona Dog Track.
Barcelona greyhound track
Carrer de Concepcion Arenal, 165
08027 Barcelona
The event will last all day, so it will be convenient to arrive early so as not to miss anything. (Opening time to be confirmed yet).
Free entry. Completely free.
A Game Jam with a great prize
In addition, there will be a Game Jam weeks before the event where the prize will be neither more nor less than the possibility of present your game in a booth next to all the other independent video games —whenever you want–. In this way the diffusion of your game will be enormous.
The platform for the Game Jam will be itch.io, a period of one week will be given to develop your video game on this platform, and then there will be another week of voting. The winner will be revealed shortly before the day of the event.
you can find the exact date of the Game Jam from this link.
What is a Game Jam?
A Game Jam is a developer marathon where a deadline is usually given 24-48 hours to develop a video game. They are usually made up of teams or individually, and sections are valued as graphics, soundtrack, sounds, gameplayand so on.
Where to buy some indie games
We leave you with a selection of independent video games that are worth having.
Damn Castilla EX
€189.99
Buy on Amazon
Slain: Back From ****
Buy on Amazon
Moonlighter
€18.80
Buy on Amazon
owlboy
€31.99
Buy on Amazon
Stardew Valley Collector’s Edition
€49.95
Buy on Amazon
Rime – Collector’s Edition
Buy on Amazon
AER: Memories of Old
€17.29
Buy on Amazon
Offer
Armello – Special Edition
€31.99
−€7.00
€24.99
Buy on Amazon