Flashgamm

DevGAMM (ex. Flash GAMM)

Genre	Casual games
Founded	October 25, 2008
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia Kyiv, Ukraine
Website	Conference DevGAMM Company website Renatus Media, LLC

DevGAMM (ex. FlashGAMM) is an international conference devoted to social, mobile and online games and held twice a year, in May (Russia, Moscow) and December (Ukraine, Kyiv).

Brief review

The conference was organized for the first time in 2008. In 2013, FlashGAMM was officially renamed to DevGAMM ^[1]

The conference was originally founded by Absolutist Ltd. Since September 2013, the organizer of new DevGAMM is Renatus Media, LLC. ^[2]

DevGAMM is targeted at professional and indie game developers, free-lancers, artists and animators, producers, publishers, potential investors, representatives of gaming portals and other industry professionals.

Lectures

The lectures^[3] cover various aspects of game design, development and promotion and can be grouped under the following headings:

development (Adobe Flash, social, iOS, Android, 3D, HTML5, Unity, porting, etc.);
graphics and animation (stylistics, special effects, characters, UI, etc.);
monetization (in-game monetization methods, payment systems, conversion, in-game advertising, offers, etc.);
management (games promotion, managing development teams, projects, etc.);
publishing (App Store, Google Play, Facebook, VK, Moi Mir and other social networks, online game portals).

Apart of lectures, the conference features round tables with notable industry figures and a variety of other events, including:^[4]

- workshops
- Speed Game Dating
- Game Contest
- Game Lynch
- Gamm:Play
- Vacancy Wall
- business meetings.

Featured projects

The conference offers a few projects focused at promotion and advancement of one’s own game products.

Game contest is an inveterate Flash GAMM event awarding submitted flash, social, HTML5, iOS and Android titles. It gives an opportunity to game developers to present their games, while publishers and investors may find new interesting titles and talented developers. The award ceremony usually closes the conference.

Speed Game Dating (SGD) is a series of short meetings of developers and publishers based on Speed Dating concept. SGD has 3 sections – flash, social and mobile. During the event developers and publishers sit at different sides of the table. Within 3 minutes developers have a chance to show their games to publishers and exchange contact information. When time is up a moderator gives a signal for publishers to move to next developer in the chain. SGD allows publishers to get acquainted with maximum developers and continue their negotiations during the conference.

Game Lynch is a special round table with industry professionals analysing presented games. The experts highlight highs and lows of their game design, usability ant visuals and offer the ways to eliminate the drawbacks. Game Lynch format allows developers to enhance their games at early stage of their development.

Vacancy Wall is a new FlashGAMM project helping attendees with employment. Jop postings are placed at the allotted area throughout the event, thus, the applicants may have a talk with the representatives of the companies right at the conference. 5) Blitz-sessions form a separate section with 8-10 five-minute lectures on various subjects.

Flash GAMM catalogue is a handbook of flash, social and mobile game developers and publishers. The information submission is free of charge and does not depend on the participation type. The catalogue is included into the conference brochure handed out to all attendees and is available only in printed form.

Gamm:Play is a new special event format introduced at DevGAMM Kyiv in 2013. ^[5] It allows developers to showcase their games in the exhibition zone and get live feedback from visitors.

Supporting companies

Since 2008 the following companies have been active participants of FlashGAMM conference: Alternativa Platform, Avaloid, Adobe Systems, Alawar Entertainment, ARCADIUM, Avocado Entertainment, Avallon Alliance, Arvara, Ac-code, ABBYY, CDNvideo, Casual Games Association, Crocus Modeller, Ciklum, Creara, DigitalHouse, Dengi Online, Encord, ePayService, FlashGD, Fortumo, Freetopay, Fresh Games, FlashGameLicense.com, Friends, Fedoit.com, Flexis, FirstHill Media, GameZHero, Gate2Shop, Gametop, G5 Games, GBN, Global Logic, Garbuz Games, GD-Team, Happy Artists, HBM, Hooligans Entertainment, Heroes, i-Jet Media, Immo games, IPTP Network, Interactive Lab, Ilogos, Jaludo, Johnny-K, KamaGames, Keiss Media, Kaisergames, King.com, LuckySoft, MyPlaceCity, Mob Mentality, Marmalade, Mochimedia, Mail.ru, MoMinis, Nevosoft, Next Games, Official Human, OnlineGameStars.com, planBmedia, Pixonic, Progrestar, Playform, Play Flock, Rambler Игры, Rentabiliweb Siberia, RedBall Studio, RealGames Network, Rubar.ru, RTL Group, Spil Games, Social Vision, Shiny Tales, Strategic Music, Social Quantum, Stella Games, Skazka, Smokoko, 2pat.Pro Targeting, Topsoft, 6waves, Videomore, Vizor Interactive, Wyse Games, Wacom, Webgames, Wheemplay, Xitex, Xenao, Zaxarsearch.com, А-Так, Кто Все Эти Люди?, МояШкола.com, Одноклассники, Страна Призов.

References

Mass Media about Flash GAMM

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