NLGD Foundation | Festival of Games

On our way to 2010!

Thanks to all the visitors, the Festival of Games 2009 was again a big success. The Festival entailed newly discovered places in Utrecht during the Urban Game, successful business deals during Pitch & Match, enlightening sessions during the game conference, and much more ...

Did you miss any of the Festival's activities mentioned above? Then try to recapture these lost moments on our flickr photostream or (re)experience some of the sessions by downloading the provided presentations on the right.

At this moment we are processing the data from the evaluation survey. Dozens of new ideas have come up which will help us to improve the Festival of Games. So stay updated about the Festival through any of our communities or subscribe to our newsletter and let us surprise you in 2010!

Hope to see you in 2010!

Seth van der Meer
Chairman NLGD Foundation

Conference Presentations

Gino van den Bergen

Crash Course in Collision Detection

Jeremy Bernstein

Procedural Rhetoric: Crafting Emotion Through Mechanics

Susan Gold

The IGDA Education SIG

Adrian Hon

Why Stories in Games Suck

Matt Hosanee

Project Darkstar

Sean Kaupinnen

A Global View of The Games industry...From Space

Kees van Kooten

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Joe Lamantia & Reinout Bosman

Killzone & Killzone.Com: A Massively Social Game

Elan Lee

Playing with Reality

Holly Owen

The making of the Coolest Girl in School

Festival most recent items

Marketing Is A Game

By Jonathan Salem Baskin Games are being marketed as a great hope for the future of branding. You can find mainstream consumer products placed in console videogames, as well as ads on virtual bill...

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Dutchrun

400 years of trade relations between the Netherlands and Japan were the reason for NLGD and Dutch Game Garden to organize The Netherlands – Japan GameJam 2008. Fifty developers had only 36 hours...

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Spotlight news

Investormatch@Festival of Games

On thursday June 11 at noon (12.00) NextStage will host an investormatch at the Festival of Games. This session is aimed at a Dutch audience. During this lunch session various game developers will pitch their business plans before a professional jury. The best company will win an incentive of 3.000 euro. This session takes place from 12.00 till 13.30 at the Festival of Games. NextStage members and investors have free access. Please apply for an invitation here: info@nextstage.nl . ...

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