The (lovingly renamed) Queensland Games Festival has its own website: https://www.queenslandgamesfestival.com/

Hello to all you emerging devs out there! This is an early invite and a call for volunteer helping folks for GO423 on Saturday December 3 at the Brisbane Powerhouse!

GO423 is our annual festival of locally made games with our own studios and makers showing off their work on the Turbine Platform. It’s on at the same time as the farmer’s markets and we get public flow though which means things can get quite chaotic so having volunteers wandering around directing and helping makes such a difference. 

Plus for those of you who do come and assist, what a good way of making yourselves known to to the local game development community!

Sign up for a morning and / or an afternoon slot, make sure you plan to stay on for our famous Loot Crate Debate event – hosted by the always amazing Dan Vogt and featuring a number of local game devs – and our final social / networking session!

Google form for volunteer sign up

Call for EOI* – As usual, we hope to display a range of games made locally in the GO423 exhibition at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Do you have a game to show off?

We love to see:

• Completed games – published and already out there
• Works in progress – ready to play test or pre-release
• Play experiments – something you have made that explores the possibilities of the medium

And all things in between! Digital and Analog formats are welcome.

Google EOI form here – extended due date to November 18th

GO423 is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Screen Culture Funding program.

Our annual GO423 festival is on again on December 3rd 2022 at the Brisbane Powerhouse – a chance to discover the rich creativity of the local game-making industry: With some of the world’s most played games coming out of Brisbane and South East Queensland, the local game-making industry is an important part of our community. This one-day event will allow you to get involved with hands-on workshops, play locally made games, chat with developers, and discover more about the folks who are leading this important creative industry.

Watch this space for our call for games for the exhibition, small sponsorship opportunities and calls for volunteers to help on the day

GO423 is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Screen Culture Funding program

That was a wonderful GO423 thanks to everyone who came along an showed off their beauty games or ran a workshop or mentored like fury in the Emerging Developer’s Room … It was so wonderful to see everyone – <3 the Brisbane game dev community!

Especial thanks go to Dan Vogt and the brave noble teams who risked reputation in the grand Loot Crate Battle.

And the biggest hug to Liz Ballantyne who was the energy and support for so much this year!

Some of my usual rubbish photos from the day …..

GO423 is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Screen Culture Funding program. 

As always, we love our board and tabletop games at #GO423. Not only do we have the ever astounding Half Monster Games running a ‘Make your own board game‘ workshop but that same team will be showing off Xenohunters in the Mosquito Foyer!

We also have a card game from Mirror Forge and a tile game from Daniel Galbraith! Martin Wallace reckons he is just going to come and hang this year but who knows what he might bring along.

Come and play the games and chat with our awesome game makers.

More information about attending GO423 via the Brisbane Powerhouse page

GO423 is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Screen Culture Funding program.

Are you an emerging developer, game design student, or solo dev who would love to chat with an industry mentor?  

Do you have a portfolio or resume, but you have no idea whether it would get you work in the industry? Come along to the Emerging Developer Room to meet some of our local experienced game developers, receive answers to your questions, and meet some of our awesome Queensland game makers.

Mentor session 1: 11am – 1pm

Mentor session 2: 3pm – 5pm

An update on the Emerging Developer’s room is that our adored hosting venue has relaxed the registration requirements and told us folks can just rock up – aim for either a morning or afternoon session and our lovely volunteers will be on hand to help … I think it was a decision made because there are lots of lovely games to go and play while folks are waiting!

GO423 2019 – Turbine platform with Zed Games running the hot seat on stage and a glimpse of the Emerging Dev room up on the mezzanine level. Photo by Iain Anderson @funwithstuff

What else is happening at GO423?

GO423 2021 will (hopefully and all things Covid willing of course) be taking place on Saturday November 13th at our always wonderful venue – the Brisbane Powerhouse!

GO423 2021 will feature some wonderful locally made games in the exhibition – as usual we have a mix of PC, console, mobile and analogue. Come and join us to play the games and chat with the amazing devs who made them.

2021 will also see the return of our popular workshops, the emerging developers room and our very favorite Loot Crate Debate.

Watch this space for updates

GO423 is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Screen Culture Funding program

PRESENTED BY BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL GAME DEVELOPERS ASSOCIATION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BRISBANE POWERHOUSE

LATEST UPDATE: AND YET ANOTHER DATE CHANGE

Due to circumstances (and hopefully a better option) AND of course subject to the sudden shifts of these days, we have had to postpone the festival. At the moment we are hoping for a spring date and have booked Saturday November 13 at the Brisbane Powerhouse

Fingers crossed – meanwhile stay safe everyone and keep making those games!

Call for EOI* – As usual, we hope to display a range of games made locally in the GO423 exhibition at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Do you have a game to show off?

We love to see:

Completed games – published and already out there
Works in progress – ready to play test or pre-release
Play experiments – something you have made that explores the possibilities of the medium

And all things in between! Digital and Analog formats are welcome.

GOOGLE FORM

This EOI will now stay open until at least September!

*Please note:. The GO423 Exhibition is a BYO equipment event. This is an expression of interest only, space is limited and these are precarious times. Please give us enough information so we can consider your game and ensure a valid contact email in case we need to get in touch.