Conferences
Here are the video game conferences we attend. Connect with us personally if you wish to meet!
Gaming Conferences:
In chronological order:
- MIGS 2009
- GDC 2010 (vids)
- Jalloo 2010
- GDC 2011 (vids)
- Halifax Game Jam 2011
- GDC 2012 (vids)
- PAX East 2012
- PAX Prime 2012
- PAX East 2013 (vids)
- GDC 2013 (vids)
- Jalloo 2013
- Hal-Con 2013
- Global Game Jam 2014
- GDC 2014 (vids)
- PAX East 2014
- Jalloo 2015
- Game Space AV 2015
- Global Game Jam 2016
- PAX East 2016 (vids)
- Jalloo 2016 (vids)
- Game Space AV 2016
- Hal-Con 2016
- Global Game Jam 2017
- GDC 2017 (vids)
- PAX East 2017 (vids)
- Jalloo 2017 (vids)
- Spring Geequinox 2017
- Hal-Con 2017
- Global Game Jam 2018
- GDC 2018 (vids)
- PAX East 2018 (vids)
- Hal-Con 2018
- Global Game Jam 2019
- PAX East 2019
- GDA 2019
- Hal-Con 2019 (vids)
- Global Game Jam 2020
- PAX Online 2020
- GDA 2020
- Global Game Jam 2021 (1,2)
- PAX Online 2021
- GDA 2021
- Global Game Jam 2022 (1,2)
- Y-Con 2022
- Xbox Community Summit 2022 (vids)
- Hal-Con 2022 (vids)
- Global Game Jam 2023
- Hal-Con 2023 (vids)
- Global Game Jam 2024
- GDC 2024 (vids)
- GDA 2024 (vids)
Notes:
- We had "Business Lounge" VIP pass at MIGS 2009, our first conference.
- We attended Game Connection at GDC 2010.
- We had a Xona Games booth (or Xona Games was represeneted in a booth) at Jalloo 2010, GDC 2011, GDC 2012, GDC 2013, Jalloo 2013, Jalloo 2015, Jalloo 2016, Hal-Con 2016, Jalloo 2017, Hal-Con 2017, GDC 2018, Hal-Con 2018, Hal-Con 2019, Hal-Con 2022, and Hal-Con 2023.
- Halifax Game Jam 2011 was our first game jam.
- We placed second (PAX East 2012) and first (PAX East 2013) in PAX East Geometry Wars 2 competitions.
- Matthew Doucette was the keynote speaker at Game Space AV 2015 and Game Space AV 2016.
- 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.
- PAX Online 2021 replaced PAX East 2021.
- 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 the faculty chair of the NSCC Truro Campus Game Development and Game Programming programs.
That is all!