One last post about this!

I'm the vice president of the Video Game Art & Design club at the University of Alberta. This year, we're putting on a big game development event called the Game Discovery Exhibition (GDX). It's happening on April 25th, 2015, and our hope is to bring together the game community in Edmonton to show off their projects and portfolios, network with other developers, and generally celebrate game development. Ideally, we'd like to make this a yearly gathering for Edmonton-based game devs and players.

The format is going to be a lot like GDC, PAX, IGF and so on. Developers will be there showing off their demos and portfolios of work. There will also be panels on serious games, indie games, and both the tech and art side of the games industry, plus a guest talk from Microsoft and a Smash Bros. 4 tournament.

A whole slew of game development companies including BioWare, IUGO Mobile, Alieo, Fluik, Serious Labs, MADSOFT, Hinterland Games, and Beamdog will be in attendance and on panels, so if you're interested in game development, it's definitely worth checking out! We also want to encourage anyone who's interested in playing games to check out the projects on display, so feel free to invite anyone you know!

The main difference from big-name game conventions is that attendance is absolutely free, and we're focusing on local devs. So come out and support the Edmonton game development community, and bring some friends!

If GDX sounds like something you'd like to be part of, you can check out our website here. You can also get tickets here.