Candidate Jae-myung Lee, the youth election captain, holds a meeting with a small game developer.
The Dynamite Youth Election Countermeasures Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Youth Election Committee), directly under the Democratic Party’s candidate Lee Jae-myung, announced that it would hold an ‘Indie Game Developers Meeting’ at ‘Blue Soda’, the Democratic Party’s Future Party, at 3 pm on the 19th.
This meeting is jointly hosted by the Democratic Party Election Committee Media and ICT Special Committee and the Youth Election Committee Listener Project Planning Team, and consists of presentations by topic and free discussion. At the site, 10 people from the indie game field are expected to attend, including Assemblyman Cho Seung-rae (attending the video), Kwon Ji-woong, co-chair of the Youth Election Committee, Kim Jeong-tae, head of the Media and ICT Special Committee, Digital Contents Team, Lee Sang-heon, aide to Lee Do-kyung, and small game development company CEO.
Indie games are games made by individual independent developers or small groups at low cost. Compared to commercial games, indie games are produced with a focus on creativity and fun rather than profitability. This meeting was planned to promote discussion from the perspective of small developers and to seek countermeasures to revitalize the game industry, based on the suggestions of indie game developers that the youth election committee heard through listener project activities.
At the meeting, the difficulties of the indie game development environment such as regional disparities and manpower shortages, plans to secure diversity in the game industry ecosystem, and the need for support policies to revitalize indie games, etc. will be
In addition, the Youth Election Commission plans to broadcast the meeting live through the Youth Election Commission’s Facebook page for game industry officials and gamers who are unable to attend in person.