◦ Announcement of the holding of ‘KGDCon 2024’, a specialized game content conference for Korean game developers
◦ Consists of well-known speakers who are game developers and industry leaders active in Korea and abroad
The Korea Indie Game Association announced that it will hold the Korea Game Developers Conference (KGDCon 2024), the largest of its kind in Korea, at KINTEX in Ilsan on August 29th and 30th.
The ‘KGDCon 2024’ event is planned as a convention in various forms such as expert lectures, exhibitions, and events to showcase the latest convergence content development and business cases in various industries jointly held with ‘2024 Content Universe Korea’, and the ‘Korea Indie Game Association’ will participate in the game content track starting this year.
Speakers for ‘KGDCon 2024’ will be professional lectures prepared by developers or game industry professionals who are actively working at home and abroad, including Hong Sung-min, CEO of CosmoUniverse and former CTO at Finland’s Metacore Games, Markus Vahtola, CMO of Finnish game company Fingersoft, Han Gyu-seon, PD of Krafton subsidiary Relu Games, Kim Seon-wook, Director of NVIDIA Game Taskrolage, and Kim Jae-ik (Gold Metal), Advocate of Unity Korea, who will cover various topics related to game development.
Key sessions include ▲How small-scale developers can ride the wave of technological advancements ▲Various functions and optimization techniques of the Unity Engine useful for indie game development ▲Global game industry ecosystem and the future of the Korean game industry: collaboration and integration learned from Europe ▲Uncover the Smoking Gun, an interactive mystery game developed using GPT ▲The past and present of domestic VC game investment ▲The essential for successful games! Why data analysis is important ▲NVIDIA AI Technology for Games ▲Game development and social networking, etc.
Admission to the conference is free and open to game developers or anyone interested in development. There will also be side events such as a game showcase, pitching awards, and on-site game jams. For more information, visit the Korea Indie Game Association’s official community ‘Indiplus (https://cafe.naver.com/indiplus)’ cafe or the ‘2024 Content Universe Korea (https://contentsuniverse.com/kr/p3.php?s=23)’ homepage.
