Category: Events
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Montreal – October 2024
Last year I flew to Montreal to MIGS 2024; I was mostly pitching the Hadria Project (of which I haven’t spoken much here, but soon will) I made some good contacts for the game, but Q4 2024 and Q1 2025 have forced me into different directions so I haven’t been…
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Economic Bubble Burst – GGJ25 (1)
My friend Mauricio Betancourt, founder of Medellín-based gamedev company IndieLevel Studio, loves the Global Game Jam (he’s been participating for 15 years now). And for a second year on a row he managed to drag me into participating in a physical location… I won’t complain since I also enjoy the…
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Colombia GameDev Summit – 2022
Medellín, Colombia. November 29, 2022 Organized by Rocket Ride Games, the first “Colombia GameDev Summit” took place at the Click Clack Hotel, offering food, drinks, and a very decent lineup of speakers for a great afternoon of game development experience sharing in the famed city of Eternal Spring. Swedish indie…
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September 15, 2022 -Misc update
Here’s some things I did the month since the last update: I completed my entry for the js13k2022, TenderGotchi, with great contributions by Ryan Malm on the audio side, and reusing illustrations from last year made by Mateo Robayo. A complete post-mortem post about it will be out soon. We…
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Slashware at Colombia 4.0 2022
The early 2000s were witness to the birth and first steps of the Colombian video game industry. A handful of indie game developers, packing more passion than knowledge, decided to venture into the unknown and laid the groundwork for the studios that came after them. COVA is a group of…
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Game Carnival 2021
Organized by XSolla, previously known as Game Developers Carnival (probably renamed to avoid confusion/issues with GDC)? This year they opted-in for a cloud-based solution which I think was a great idea. The basic premise remained the same from last year, a highly detailed 3d space where you can move freely…
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Colombia 4.0 2020
December 1st to 3rd 2020, Colombia 4.0 is the biggest tech event in Colombia. This year they opted-in for an online format (of course), here’s a summary of my experience on it, which, as usual, is centered on its videogames track. They also had the (BIG) animation / SIGGRAPH track,…
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Roguelike Celebration 2020
Crossposted to Temple of The Roguelike On October 3 and 4 2020, the fifth iteration of the Roguelike Celebration happened online. Last year I missed it (flying Medellín to San Francisco is expensive!) but I had no excuse this year. The biggest novelty of the event was the MUD-like platform…
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Game Developers Carnival 2020
May 11 and 12 2020, a virtual event organized by XSolla and MeetToMatch in the aftermath of GDC 2020’s cancellation due to covid19, using “YourWorld“, a multi-user environment powered by Unreal Engine, as the main platform. I uploaded my experience in a couple of videos here and here if you are…
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MEDMI 2019
MEDMI 2019 – A conference on technology and digital marketing, November 16, 2019, at Medellín, Colombia. Sergio Roldán kicked off the event discussing the growth of Medellín from a spot in the valley to a mostly unplanned big city, and the strategies it has taken to transform into a growing…