Smilegate has unveiled the speakers and exhibition participating teams on its website at the indie game festival ‘Burning Beaver 2022’, which opens on December 16th.
This Burning Beaver 2022 will be held hybrid, offline, and online. According to the published list, 24 people, including Smilegate Stove CEO Han Young-wun and creator Kim Seong-hoe, well-known for the YouTube channel G-Sik Encyclopedia, will lecture on various topics during the festival. The 80 teams participating in Burning Beaver 2022 will exhibit offline and online, and 59 will exhibit online.
Youngwoon Han, CEO of Smilegate Stove, will give a lecture on the theme of “a platform that grows with indie game creators.” CEO Han Yeong-wun will introduce the progress of the indie game platform Stove Indie, which has created a healthy ecosystem for indie games and supported the growth of creators.
In addition, Seonghoe Kim, creator of ‘G Sikbaekwa,’ will present “How to read trends and make money with Indie games.” Orbit, a science influencer who runs the YouTube channel ‘Unsuccessful Science,’ plans to meet with the public on the subject of “Is this world a simulation game?” Hwang Seong-jin, CEO of Kassel Games, well known for the indie game ‘Retropolis,’ will present the content of “Is writing a development log meaningful?”
The appearance of the participating teams in the exhibition is also noteworthy. First of all, you can meet ‘Love in Login,’ the next work of On Fire Games, which was recognized for its development and box office success with the entertainment simulation ‘Love Delivery.’ In addition, indie games developed by former Smilegate Membership (hereinafter referred to as ‘SGM’) ‘Pro Story’ (developer Team Oparts), ‘Critadell’ (developer Pixelian), ‘Beat the Beat’ (developer Bepex), ‘Ripple’ Expected works such as ‘Effect’ (Outsider Kids) will also be released. SGM is a creator support program run by Smilegate Future Lab, which helps indie game creators to focus on game development.
Meanwhile, Burning Beaver 2022 will be held in Garosu-gil, Sinsa-dong, from December 16 to 18 and will be held at the online exhibition hall (Stove Indie) from December 16 to January 15, 2023.
