
The event builds on the success of the 2013 symposium, which featured a number of independent games developers and special guests, including keynote speaker and Hollywood-based composer Jeff Rona, Yann Seznec (of Edinburgh’s Lucky Frame studios), Alex May (developer of Eufloria), and Alexander Mathew (Interactive Media graduate student at USC).
Hosted as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and now partnered with the Scottish Games Network and IGDA Scotland, this year’s EGS has expanded to encompass two days in 2014.

The second day will be smaller and more intimate, focusing on exclusive workshops led by guest speakers in the fields of game development and game audio. Workshops will range from The Chinese Room developers talking about world-building design techniques to Vincent Diamante leading a workshop exploring interactive music composition/implementation techniques.

We are delighted to have the following guest speakers for our panel discussions and workshops:
- Vincent Diamante (thatgamecompany)
- Jessica Curry (The Chinese Room)
- Yann Seznec (Lucky Frame)
- Malath Abbas (Quartic Llama)
…with more to be announced.

The EGS strives to raise awareness about games growing as an art form and showing what games can be, so the EGS Games Festival is one way to show off the creativity of the Scottish games development community. This will also be a fantastic opportunity to advertise your projects and meet other dev teams. For usability purposes, we will give preference to projects that look and feel complete (or mostly complete). If your game isn’t fully done yet but still has a certain sense of polish to it, we are happy to consider these projects as well. Space will be limited, so please sign up ASAP!
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