- Joint booth exhibition at the ‘Game Level Up Showcase 2024’ at BEXCO in Busan from the 14th to the 17th
- This year’s joint exhibition hall is twice the size of last year’s… 10 startup indie game companies participating in the support project
- Strengthening the Game Level Up Showcase (GLS) brand and promoting continued support for K-indie games
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Yoo In-chon) and the Korea Creative Content Agency (Acting President Yoo Hyun-seok, hereinafter referred to as KOCCA) will participate in Korea’s largest game exhibition, ‘G-STAR 2024’, and operate a joint booth for the ‘Game Level Up Showcase 2024 (hereinafter referred to as GLS 2024)’ to promote excellent domestic indie games at BEXCO in Busan from the 14th to the 17th.
The GLS 2024 joint booth will exhibit 10 startup indie games selected as the target of the KOCCA Game Planning Support Project. In addition, G-STAR, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, will present a large number of new games that are attracting attention both domestically and internationally by setting up a total of 3,281 booths, including 2,364 booths in the B2C Hall and 917 booths in the B2B Hall.
◆ GLS 2024 Joint Pavilion, 40 Booths to Showcase 10 Excellent Domestic Startup Indie Games
Last year, Konjinwon participated in G-STAR with 20 booths and successfully showcased 6 indie games. This year, due to the demand from the game industry and the public response, the booth will be doubled to 40 booths. Through this GLS 2024 joint booth, we plan to further publicize the potential and possibilities of excellent domestic indie games by promoting them and activating their businesses.
The joint exhibition participating works are ▲Gino Games’ ▲Writers’ ▲Sun Games’ ▲Bridge Music’s ▲Triple Games’ ▲Drabbit Studio’s ▲Jipang Games’ ▲Odysseyer’s ▲Studio Dudal’s ▲Project Cloud Games’ .
In addition to the indie game exhibition, various on-site events will be held. Stage programs such as game introductions and demonstrations, mini-game competitions, and stamp rally events are being prepared. In particular, in the game introduction and demonstration program, ▲검귤단 ▲제제게임스 ▲블랙그란 ▲BBB , which are preliminary startup projects of the 2024 game planning support project, are expected to participate and communicate with indie game fans.
Kim Nam-geol, head of the Game Technology Division at KOGAS, said, “Through our participation in the GLS 2024 joint pavilion, we will actively support domestic indie games and startups to promote their originality and further increase their competitiveness in the global market.”
Meanwhile, starting with the indie game festival BitSummit held in Tokyo, Japan in July, KOCCA has been expanding its support activities by linking the ‘Game Level Up Showcase (GLS)’ with domestic and international game events with high recognition. It also plans to continue supporting the commercialization and promotion of domestic indie game developers through the ‘Game Level Up Showcase (GLS)’ scheduled to be held exclusively at SJ Kunsthalle in Gangnam, Seoul from December 4 to 6.
