The Indie Arena meets for it's second birthday. Founded as a community or independent game developers from all over Germany, Austria and Switzerland, A MAZE. is our home base. Here we get together to discuss the past and future of the community and to just hang out. If you're interested in joining us or in what we do, feel free to come by.
GameLoading: Rise of the Indies is a feature documentary exploring the world of indie game developers – their craft, their games, their dreams, and how they have forever changed the landscape of games culture. Disrupting the big-budget industry, indie games have altered the art form through their innovative, varied and personal games. Small teams of passionate and creative developers are offering an alternate voice to players. GameLoading aims to capture this pivotal point in history, where video games have become more personal than ever before.
The film aims to showcase a wide variety of indie developers behind some of the most important games of the past few years and take a broad snapshot of this diverse, creative community on an international scale.
GameLoading features interviews with a mix of high-profile and up-and-coming indie developers and industry figures, including:
IMPORTANT NOTE! Capacity for this session is limited. To reserve a spot, select the “Add To My Sched” button. If the session is already fully booked, you can add yourself to the waiting list by selecting the same button.
The talk will cover the new GUI system and the upcoming global illumination, standard shader, audio mixer 2D physics effectors, multithreaded physics, cloud services and all freshest news. After this talk you should have a rich and complete snapshot to know what you can do and expect using Unity 5.
The Brazen Beasts sent Luca Lombardo, an indie consultant, and Maximilian Kiese, a game design student, to present the group's project: Ink. Beautiful art and no language!
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Important note: this event is independently organised by the Berlin Mini Game Jam team and it's free to attend for everyone, no A MAZE. festival ticket needed! It will take place in a different location from the rest of the festival, in another neighbourhood – see location details below.
If you have any questions about this event get in touch directly with the organisers, via email (berlinminijam@googlegroups.com) or through Facebook or Meetup.com:
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/335413016669984/
Meetup.com event page: http://www.meetup.com/game-developers-berlin/events/221222784/
You can find more details about the Berlin Mini Game Jam on their site: http://www.berlinminijam.de/p/about.html
Welcome to Berlin Mini Gamedev Jam, A MAZE. afterjam edition! Artists, designers and all others who want to be part of the game creation process are invited to our monthly event for experimenting with creating small games!
Berlin Mini Game Jam is a relaxed 8 hour prototyping workshop: After we have chosen a theme together, we form teams or go solo to make game graphics, concepts and prototypes on computers, phones, cardboard or physical space. At the end, we present the results to each other.
Create whatever you want, just bring any materials you need.
Everyone is welcome! Really! Artists, game designers, coders, hobbyists or professionals. Any gender, any background! We always have lots of new people, so don't worry if you don't know anybody yet: You're quite welcome too.
Zeiss is kindly providing a VR One virtual reality case/glasses for smartphones to the Berlin Mini Jam community to use during events and borrowing between events for free! Put yourself on the waiting list http://goo.gl/forms/nSka93XSGa if you're interested. WARNING: Berlin Mini Jam does not provide technical support. Please research information about the VR One and feel free to share your results with the community!
Supports: Android and iOS
Official device support: Samsung Galaxy S5, iPhone 6 (4.7 inches)
Theoretical device support: 4.7-5.2 inches
Dev: https://bitbucket.org/vrone/unity3d (development without Unity is possible)
Specs: https://vronecontest.zeiss.com/index.php?controller=pages&view=about_vr
Inspiration: https://vronecontest.zeiss.com/index.php?controller=ideas
There is no participation fee thanks to co.up coworking. You can return their kindness by buying some of their 1.50€ drinks! Post-jam pizzas sponsored by pizza.de! Snacks for the day are provided by A MAZE. / Berlin 2015 - 4th International Independent Videogames Festival.
We have a Facebook group too, by the way: Berlin Game Developers Meet-Up.
How to get in: http://i.imgur.com/k0Of1sg.png
There are two gates. At the one closer to Kottbusser Tor, reach through the bars to open the door. If both are locked, call Iwan via +4915781987797
