Busan City (Mayor Park Hyeong-jun) and the Busan Information Industry Promotion Agency (from now on referred to as the Agency), together with the Smilegate Orange Planet Startup Foundation (from now on referred to as Orange Planet), will hold the ‘1st Busan Games’ at the Busan Cultural Contents Complex located in Haeundae-gu, Busan at 2 p.m. on the 27th. It was announced that a ‘developer conference’ will be held.
The ‘Busan Game Developer Conference’ is a program prepared for the first time this year by the Promotion Agency and Orange Planet, which operate the Busan Global Game Center, to strengthen the capabilities of local game developers and promote network building.
The conference begins with information on the Promotion Agency’s various support projects for local games, followed by an introduction to Smilegate Stove Indie’s indie game release strategy.
This will be followed by lectures on ▲Next Stage’s ‘The Beginning of Unreal’ ▲Team Tapas’ ‘PC Game Challenge Story’ ▲Pumkim’s ‘Game Release Strategy Based on 4 Years of Sales Indicators’, and after the lecture ▲Talk concert and networking by game developers The event will provide a venue for communication about creative indie game development ideas and game business.
The 1st Busan Game Developer Conference is open to anyone interested in game development and developers, prospective developers, and student development teams in the Busan area. Details of the conference can be found in the announcement on the Busan Information Industry Promotion Agency website, and pre-registration will be held until 6 p.m. on the 26th.
Joo Seong-pil, head of the content promotion division of the Busan Information Industry Promotion Agency, said, “We expect that this event will create a space where developers in the Busan region can communicate together.” He added, “In the future, developers in the Busan region will continue to try various things and share them.” “We will spare no effort in supporting the establishment and revitalization of networks among game industry workers so that this can be done.”
Smilegate Orange Planet Startup Foundation Center Director Seo Sang-bong said, “Through this conference, which promotes and discovers startups in the Busan region, we will strive to produce unicorn game companies at the Busan center as well.”
Meanwhile, the Busan Global Game Center is operated by the Busan Information Industry Promotion Agency under the sponsorship of Busan Metropolitan City, the Korea Creative Content Agency, and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and is collaborating with the ‘Smilegate Orange Planet Startup Foundation,’ the first private company in the country to foster the region-based game industry. Therefore, we are contributing to strengthening the competitiveness of game companies in the Busan region through various support projects.
