Georgia Game Developers Association, Inc.

10/03/2024

Games Week Georgia has already been amazing, with the Atlanta Digital World Summit at Mercedes Benz, today's Esports Summit at Uptown, and the incredible Sue Bohle receiving a very well-earned Legacy award. I hate that I will miss tomorrow's Lioness Girl Gaming Expo and the Creator Summit, but am very excited to what we are setting up at DreamHack.

In addition to 60(!) indie game studios in the Playground, the GGDA has a variety of great panels in addition to our annual Silv-E awards, this year sponsored by Unity3D and Wacom! Join us for:

Friday Oct 4, 1:30 - 2:30 pm: Legal and Business Opportunities for Content Creators and Game Devs

Beth B. Moore, moderator. Andrew Greenberg, Tygarlily, AshSaidHi

Saturday Oct. 5, 3:30 - 4:30 pm: Hacking Your Game-Dev Life - Useful Advice From The Trenches

Joe Cassavaugh, moderator. Bob Carter, Marisa Ginger Tontaveetong, Matthew Gramble, Sydney Pawlak

Sunday, Oct. 6, 12:30 - 1:30 pm: Unity3D Presents: Introducing Unity 6 for Creators and Game Devs

Mark Schoennagel

4 pm: The Silv-E awards presentation

Use the code SIEGE15 for a 15 percent discount off your DreamHack pass.

Use the code SIEGE15 for a 15 percent discount off your DreamHack pass. GGDA members can contact [email protected] for a code to get 30 percent off! https://dreamhack.com/atlanta/   DreamHack is the largest esports festival in the world, and we expect more than 50,000 gamers to join us at

08/12/2024

I had a great series of discussions with GGDA members as to why working in Georgia worked for them. Check out this highlights reel, and feel free to join us noon Saturday at Best End Brewing for our monthly meeting and Indie Block Party!

Thanks to creative developers, leading universities, and forward-looking public policy, Georgia has become one of the fastest growing states for game develop...

05/31/2024

Thanks to Charlie Hawkins for recording this MomoCon session on Game Dev and Esports opportunities. I am sharing this to my main FB feed as we discuss plenty of opportunities that will be of interest to many of you. Also, it was a great panel with Alpha Esports & Technology, Tygarlily, Forrest Win Raynard, Emergent Esports League, and Bob Carter We also had some great audience interaction

Georgia is the home to leading game dev studios and esports events. Learn how you can make the most of these opporunities.Here is the calendar of events we p...

04/13/2024

Creator Summit provides a view in how emerging and established creators turn content creation into business results. Join us for networking opportunities, presentations from industry leaders, and workshops with the largest names in the Content Creation industry.

12/11/2023

Warren Spector will be delivering our SIEGE keynote at DreamHack 1:30 pm Friday. Check out this excerpt from his 2015 SIEGE presentation on how to make games THE medium of the 21st century:

From his 2015 keynote at the Southern Interactive Entertainment and Game Expo, game design legend Warren Spector spells out what makes video games special, a...

06/18/2023

A good opportunity for all the game devs out there

The Friends of the Library of Congress are sponsoring a challenge to help improve public knowledge of civics–that is, the rights and responsibilities of citizens-by asking video games developers to create fun, lightweight video games related to civics that incorporate Library of Congress resources...

03/23/2022

Want to meet game developers in Georgia? Check out this playlist of video introductions:

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09/25/2020

Open for submissions

For years, games have been a one-of-a-kind medium for storytelling, art, and innovation — a way to build brand-new worlds and provide deeper connections to the characters and the audiences who play. Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, is dedicated to celebrating such thoughtful stories, and ...

09/17/2020

Good work from Wabi Sabi

Scavengers is your strategic survival battleground. Enter a free-to-play action shooter where squads of three compete to survive and dominate in a hybrid of sandbox-style PVE and class-based PVP.

08/06/2020

Some good insights for game devs

The hero's journey has been the stuff of story from earliest times. Today's popular heroes include Harry Potter, Frodo, Spiderman, Neo, and Luke Skywalker. They are all ordinary guys who suddenly receive the Call to Adventure, mythologist Joseph Campbell's term for the beginning of the journey.

07/10/2020

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