The Busan Indie Connect Festival Organizing Committee (hereinafter referred to as the BIC Organizing Committee) and Smilegate Stove (hereinafter referred to as Stove Indie) announced on the 28th that they had signed an MOU for mutual cooperation to revitalize the indie game industry at home and abroad.
The BIC Organizing Committee is hosting the ‘BIC Festival’, a representative global indie game event that celebrates its 8th anniversary this year, and is contributing to the spread of the indie game culture through various activities to support excellent indie games at home and abroad.
As Stove Indy is actively discovering and nurturing creators to create an indie game culture at home and abroad, cooperation between the two companies is expected to bring great synergy to the indie game industry.
Through this MOU, the BIC Organizing Committee and Stove Indie will ▲Collaborate to support indie game creators and revitalize the indie game industry ▲Create and utilize content to promote indie games and indie game creators ▲Explore and promote various collaboration plans for the development of the indie game industry We plan to continue discussing and continuing cooperation in such areas.
In particular, the two companies will cooperate so that the BIC Festival 2022, which has been greatly expanded with the participation of general visitors and overseas exhibitors for the first time since the corona virus, can be conducted as a safe and rich festival in September.
Tae-Gon Seo, Chairman of the BIC Organizing Committee, said, “We expect that we will be able to create a successful case for the future of the indie game industry through collaboration with Smilegate Stove, which is at the forefront of spreading a healthy indie game culture through support for creators.” , said, “We will do our best to revitalize the indie game market at home and abroad.”
Smilegate Stove CEO Han Young-woon said, “Smilegate Stove CEO Han Young-woon said, “We expect that companies and organizations that are doing their best to revitalize indie games and support creative activities will meet and create a very positive synergy effect. We hope for a lot of interest and support for the various support projects and activities that the two companies will show through this MOU.”
