Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Hyeong-joon) and the Busan Indie Connect Festival Organizing Committee (Organizing Chairman Seo Tae-gun, hereinafter referred to as the BIC Organizing Committee) will release an online briefing session on March 23, and on August 25, ‘Busan Indie Connect Festival 2023 (hereinafter referred to as BIC Festival 2023) will be held. ‘ was announced.
‘BIC Festival 2023’ will be offline at BEXCO Exhibition Center 1 Hall 1 from August 25th to August 27th. The online event will be held from August 17, a week earlier than the offline event, and will be held for about a month until September 14.
The application and screening schedule, which indie game developers who participated in the business briefing session are most curious about, was also revealed. First of all, the general section of the competition section can be accepted from April 12th to May 18th, and the rookie section (student competition section) from April 12th to June 16th. And this year, Connect Picks in non-competition categories, where only works that have been exhibited at BIC or for more than one year since their release date can participate, will also be accepted from April 12th to June 9th.
In addition, this year, unlike the previous form, which required both online and offline participation, it was decided to provide flexible participation opportunities for global indie game developers so that they can only participate in online exhibitions or only offline exhibitions if a reason for simultaneous participation is difficult. Submissions will be reviewed fairly and detailedly by a judging subcommittee composed of game-related experts, and the finalized works will be announced in early July.
Early sponsors of this year’s BIC Festival 2023 were also revealed through the business briefing session. Platinum sponsors include ▲Pearl Abyss ▲Smilegate Stove Indie ▲Nikalis ▲ProudNet, and silver sponsors ▲Chef Games ▲The End ▲Megazone Cloud ▲Mirae Contents Foundation ▲Zempai ▲One Store decided early on to participate, and indie He expressed his aspirations to support game developers.
The online business briefing session of BIC Festival 2023 can be viewed again through BIC’s official YouTube channel.
