GameHorizon Conference 2012
Get your ticket here27 & 28 June 2012Newcastle Gateshead
Partners
Media partners
Develop delivers priceless trade information to the global games development sector. Total monthly readership figures across print, online, digital and mobile is over 300,000. Reaching programmers, artists, musicians, animators and more, Develop is the most effective way to promote new tools and find experienced, skilled staff.
GamesIndustry International is the market-leading website and community for news and information about the global videogames industry, covering all aspects of the interactive entertainment value chain. The site has a significant and qualified global audience, with over 100,000 registered users spanning every part of the industry, from design, development, publishing, marketing, distribution or retail all the way through to media, freelance and students. Leading news content, with opinion-forming industry interviews and analysis, are added daily, while the site boasts one of the largest recruitment databases for videogames-related roles, a company directory of contact details for hundreds of businesses in the industry, and links to industry bodies and events
PocketGamer.biz: The mobile games industry website with the mostest
Charity Partner
SpecialEffect is dedicated to using technology to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities. More specifically, we help people to play and enjoy computer games. For many with disabilities, the majority of computer games are simply too quick or too difficult to play. By working alongside them and their parents or carers to find out which games they CAN play, or by adapting those games that they can't, we're having a profoundly positive impact on their mental wellbeing and overall quality of life.
SpecialEffect is actively collaborating with a growing number of developers and is dedicated to helping as many people with disabilities to experience the joy of games with cutting edge technology.
Partners
Game Republic is an industry-led games network that supports and promotes the Yorkshire and UK games industry, with members including Rockstar Leeds, Sumo Digital, Leeds Metropolitan University, Just Add Water, Four Door Lemon, Tuna, the University of Huddersfield and the University of Bradford.
Game Republic is expanding and offering more extensive commercial benefits to its Yorkshire and UK members, developing a more effective membership structure that will include games developers, digital publishers, digital companies, support industries and academic institutions.
IGDA is the largest non-profit membership organisation serving individuals who create video games. IGDA advances the careers and enhances the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community. These core activities advance games as a medium - and game development as a profession.
LAUNCH was created by Birmingham Science Park Aston to develop the gaming entrepreneurial talent by focusing on three themes of LAUNCH a Career, LAUNCH a Business and LAUNCH a Technology culminating with an annual LAUNCH: Future Gaming & Digital Conference for 300 people as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
LAUNCH supports the development of games businesses by providing an annual conference, a Games & Digital Incubator providing facilities for early stage and startup indie games studios through to established studios on the Parks 14 acre site for larger established games and digital businesses, access to a business support incubation scheme for technology businesses, LAUNCH Awards and games meetups.
Manchester Digital is the independent trade association for the thriving digital sector in the North West of England.
TIGA is the trade association representing the UK's games industry. Our vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games business. Our mission is to fight for the interests of game developers and digital publishers. We focus on the delivery of three strategic objectives: effective political representation, profile raising and helping our members commercially. This means that TIGA members are effectively represented in the corridors of power, their voice is heard in the media and they receive benefits that make a material difference to their businesses, including a reduction in costs and improved commercial opportunities.
UKIE is the only trade body for the UK's wider interactive entertainment industry. We exist to champion the interests, needs and positive image of the videogames and interactive entertainment industry who's companies make up our membership.
We're here to help ensure that our members from the videogames and wider interactive entertainment industry have the right economic, political and social environment needed for this expanding industry to thrive.
We provide a range of services to meet the shared needs of our members and to further the interests of the interactive entertainment industry as a whole.