Busan Indie Connect Festival 2022, conference and session information released

The Busan Indie Connect Festival Organizing Committee (Chairman Seo Tae-geon) announced on the 25th that it would release information on the conference and session speakers of the ‘Busan Indie Connect Festival 2022 (BIC Festival 2022, hereafter referred to as BIC Festival 2022)’.

The conference, which will be held at the Busan Port International Exhibition and Convention Center for two days from September 1 to 2 during the BIC Festival 2022 period, will be broadcast live through the BIC official website and YouTube channel.

This year’s conference session is divided into three categories: ‘My Development Journal’, ‘Indie Game Collaboration’ and ‘Biz’, so that anyone interested in indie games, including indie game developers, industry insiders, and prospective developers, can listen with interest. did. Each category will be conducted with a variety of topics such as honest experiences of the indie game development process, indie games viewed from various perspectives, and indie game utilization platforms.

This year’s BIC Conference On the first day of this year’s BIC Conference, Seongmin Hong, Technical Director of Metacore Games, Sangjun Lee, Vice President and Joakim Kim Linna Product Evangelist of YAHAHA Studio, Wonseon Jang, CEO of Asteroid J, Seungho Joo, CPO of Actionfit Co., Ltd., Sihwan Kim, Manager of Megazone Cloud, Co., Ltd. Min-geun Cho, CEO of Catsby Studio, takes the microphone.

On the 2nd day, CEO Valerio Di Donato of Embracer Group, CEO Kim Sang-won of Pump Kim, Liu Lim-sang, curatorial research director at Seoul Museum of Art, Shin Kwang-seop, Epic Games Korea, Young-wook Oh, researcher at Gachon University, Se-yong Jang, client team leader of Unopened XOCIETY, monthly GAMZER’ Z’s chief reporter Jo Ki-hyun, Aftertime’s CEO Lee Dae-hee, Nicalis’ Baek Jun-yeol, Associate Producer, and Moon Mode’s Chris McLaughlin Tech Director will lead the session.

Events for conference viewers are also available. On BIC’s official YouTube channel and official website, where you can watch the conference in real time, various online quizzes will be held through the Time Attack event, and various gifts such as gifticons will be provided through a lottery among viewers with the correct answer.

More detailed information about the conference can be found on the official website of the BIC Festival .

BIC Festival 2022 will be held offline at the Busan Port International Exhibition and Convention Center (BPEX) from September 1 to 4, and the online exhibition will be extended until September 30, following the previous year.

BIC Festival 2022 Early Bird tickets, which can be purchased at a lower price, are also on sale on the official BIC website. There are three types of tickets that can be purchased: online festival tickets, offline festival tickets, and offline business tickets. You can check detailed information and purchase after logging in.

Tae-Gon Seo, chairman of the Busan Indie Connect Festival Organizing Committee, said, “As the age group who is interested in the BIC conference is gradually expanding, we have organized conferences in three categories to satisfy everyone’s interest in indie games.” We ask for your interest in this conference, where we will share various opinions on the history of game development, the latest issues of indie games, and indie games and their growth potential from the perspective of other fields.”