Conferences

Here are the video game conferences we attend. Connect with us personally if you wish to meet!

 

Gaming Conferences:

In chronological order:

  1. MIGS '09
  2. GDC '10 (vids)
  3. Jalloo '10
  4. GDC '11 (vids)
  5. GDC '12 (vids)
  6. PAX East '12
  7. PAX Prime '12
  8. PAX East '13 (vids)
  9. GDC '13 (vids)
  10. Jalloo '13
  11. Hal-Con '13
  12. GDC '14 (vids)
  13. PAX East '14
  14. Jalloo '15
  15. Game Space AV '15
  16. PAX East '16 (vids)
  17. Jalloo '16 (vids)
  18. Game Space AV '16
  19. Hal-Con '16
  20. GDC '17 (vids)
  21. PAX East '17 (vids)
  22. Jalloo '17 (vids)
  23. Spring Geequinox '17
  24. Hal-Con '17
  25. GDC '18 (vids)
  26. PAX East '18 (vids)
  27. Hal-Con '18
  28. PAX East '19
  29. GDA '19
  30. Hal-Con '19 (vids)
  31. PAX Online '20
  32. GDA '20
  33. PAX Online '21 (replaced PAX East '21)
  34. GDA '21
  35. Y-Con '22
  36. Xbox Community Summit '22 (vids)
  37. Hal-Con '22 (vids)

 

Notes:

  1. We had "Business Lounge" VIP pass at MIGS '09.
  2. We attended Game Connection at GDC '10.
  3. We had a Xona Games booth (or Xona Games was represeneted in a booth) at Jalloo '10, GDC '11, GDC '12, GDC '13, Jalloo '13, Jalloo '15, Jalloo '16, Hal-Con '16, Jalloo '17, Hal-Con' 17, GDC '18, Hal-Con' 18, Hal-Con' 19, and Hal-Con' 22.
  4. We placed second (PAX East '12) and first (PAX East '13) in PAX East Geometry Wars 2 competitions.
  5. Matthew Doucette was the keynote speaker at Game Space AV '15 and Game Space AV '16.
  6. GDA = GameDev Atlantic, the first game developer's conference in Atlantic Canada, launched in 2018 with help from Hal-Con and ISNS (Interative Society of Nova Scotia).
  7. GDA 2020 and GDA 2021 was online due to COVID-19 worldwide pandemic.
  8. Xbox Community Summit is for Xbox MVPs, Xbox Ambassadors, and Xbox teams only. Most of its content is under NDA.

 

Special Thanks:

Special thanks to NSBI, Nova Scotia's business development agency, for supporting our attendance to MIGS and GDC each year, often with a GDC Expo floor booth or GDC Play booth. Special thanks to the New Brunswick government and NBCC Miramichi for hosting Jalloo and supporting our attendance each year with a Xona Games booth. Special thanks to NSCC Truro Campus for supporting our attendance to Hal-Con, with a booth, and GDC. Matthew Doucette is a faculty member and faculty chair of the NSCC Truro Campus Game Development program.

 

That is all!