Conferences
Here are the video game conferences we attend. Connect with us personally if you wish to meet!
Gaming Conferences:
In chronological order:
- MIGS '09
- GDC '10 (vids)
- Jalloo '10
- GDC '11 (vids)
- GDC '12 (vids)
- PAX East '12
- PAX Prime '12
- PAX East '13 (vids)
- GDC '13 (vids)
- Jalloo '13
- Hal-Con '13
- GDC '14 (vids)
- PAX East '14
- Jalloo '15
- Game Space AV '15
- PAX East '16 (vids)
- Jalloo '16 (vids)
- Game Space AV '16
- Hal-Con '16
- GDC '17 (vids)
- PAX East '17 (vids)
- Jalloo '17 (vids)
- Spring Geequinox '17
- Hal-Con '17
- GDC '18 (vids)
- PAX East '18 (vids)
- Hal-Con '18
- PAX East '19
- GDA '19
- Hal-Con '19 (vids)
- PAX Online '20
- GDA '20
- PAX Online '21 (replaced PAX East '21)
- GDA '21
- Y-Con '22
- Xbox Community Summit '22 (vids)
- Hal-Con '22 (vids)
Notes:
- We had "Business Lounge" VIP pass at MIGS '09.
- We attended Game Connection at GDC '10.
- 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.
- We placed second (PAX East '12) and first (PAX East '13) in PAX East Geometry Wars 2 competitions.
- Matthew Doucette was the keynote speaker at Game Space AV '15 and Game Space AV '16.
- 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).
- GDA 2020 and GDA 2021 was online due to COVID-19 worldwide pandemic.
- 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!