From August 3 to August 6, 2023, Kyiv hosted the largest B2B conference in Ukraine – Games Gathering 2023, dedicated to the development of computer games and the creation of high-quality game content.
Teachers and students of the educational program “Esports and Computer Game Development” joined the conference online and had the opportunity to receive up-to-date information on the latest trends in the gaming industry.
Games Gathering 2023 Kyiv is an international gaming conference. It is an opportunity to raise your professional level and meet new business partners – publishers, investors, and service providers. It includes free stands for independent developers, an opportunity to demonstrate your product by participating in the INDIE BLAST indie showcase and applying for the Indie Blast Awards game project competition. Games Gathering conference has been held annually since 2015.
Teachers and students of the educational program “Esports and Computer Game Development” had the opportunity to immerse themselves in the professional space of game development, listen to lectures where experienced developers shared their experiences and revealed professional secrets, take part in online discussion panels, including “BizDev during the war”, “What are the problems with finding a job as a game designer”, “So what? A survival guide for video game developers in wartime”, etc.
There were a lot of very interesting and professional lectures, including “India – a new place for mobile game monetization growth”, “Increasing efficiency, improving quality, reducing art cost with AI”, “Ukrainian game dev 2023: vacancies, salaries, career challenges”, “Strategies for future project management of generative production in game dev + 5 reasons why RM is losing to AI in the modern world”, “GameCarrier: network games are easy. If you know how”, “Unreal Ranges: C++ Ranges Library for Unreal”, “Using the AI model in game development for small teams”, etc.
Participation in a conference of this format is very important for the new educational program “Esports and Computer Game Development”, as after the 1st year students had the opportunity to immerse themselves in the professional environment of game development, get acquainted with modern trends and prospects for the development of the gaming industry.
The Department of Economic Cybernetics is sincerely grateful to the CEO & Founder of Games Gathering Oleksandr Khrutskyi for the opportunity to participate in Games Gathering 2023 free of charge for teachers and students, for the opportunity to join the professional environment of the game dev during the conference! We thank the Games Gathering team for organizing and holding the conference!