28th November 1pm – Online Webinar on IP with Lewis Silkin and GG Insurance
21st November – GaMaYo with the Game Republic Awards -at WX and GR VIP mixer at 4pm
14th November – Game Republic Panel at Develop North in Liverpool
25th October
Game Republic partnered with EGX/MCM Comic Con to offer all GR members a FREE industry ticket to the event at ExCeL London on Friday 25th October.
The EGX business event took place in the Platinum Suite (West Entrance) at ExCeL and featured talks on investment/funding, publishing, marketing and PR aand was followed with an exclusive games industry mixer – plus full access to EGX and MCM Comic Con!
21st October at 1pm
Driving Sales for Christmas
Online Webinar with Matt Hitchcock and Richy Pears from Other Things
26th September
Game Republic Panel at Nexus Dublin Games Conference
25th September
Game Republic – Pitching to Investors and Publishers
Wed, Sep 25, 2024, 4:00 PM in Liverpool followed by Re:Format Industry Party
19th September
New Creative Technologies on 19th September
In collaboration with Barclays Games and Creative and XR Stories – at Kommune in Sheffield – the New Creative Tech event looked at the latest innovations in creative tech for games, film and TV. The day includes talks, panels and demos, followed by drinks and networking at the National Videogame Museum.
Fireside Chat with Caroline Cooper-Charles and Barry Ryan
Caroline Cooper-Charles, Chief Executive of Screen Yorkshire in conversation with Barry Ryan, Head of Production, Ink Factory on his incredible body of work while previously at Warp Films including smash hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Andy Nyman & Jeremy Dyson’s Ghost Stories and Chris Morris’s BAFTA winning first short My Wrongs 8245-8249 &117 and Four Lions, and Tyrannosaur for Warp X, as well as the use of technology in film-making and current and future landscape for film production in the UK.
Fireside Chat with Ashley Day and Jamie Sefton
Ashley Day, Head of Developer Relations, Team17 discussing his career with Jamie Sefton, Managing Director at Game Republic, including being deputy editor of gamesTM, launching the Wii U and Switch at Nintendo UK and now helping indie developers make their dream games a reality at Team17 – plus how Team17 is handling a fast-changing global market, using new technologies and discovering new games.
Tales of Technology with Judi Alston
Judi Alston, Creative Director and CEO, Dreaming Methods on using technology to tell stories for social change, with their XR Stories-funded demo The Pit Camp about the 40th anniversary of the Miners Strike, and the homelessness project Streets of Change.
The Future of XR with Jed Ashforth
Jed Ashforth, CEO of Realised Realities was instrumental at Sony in bringing PlayStation VR and VR2 to life and joins the event to talk about the present and future of XR.
Valve meeting at GamesCom
Game Republic Summer Arcade Party
Wednesday 17th July Leeds Arcade Club
One of the most popular events of the year with 3 floors of arcade machines and 200 game developers all in one place.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology
9th July
Game Republic panel on Narrative Design at Develop Brighton 2024
11th June
VGEC and Tax savings for indies with Plus Accounting
Online event
6th June
Game Republic Student Showcase
The Game Republic Student Showcase 2024 took place on Thursday 6th June at Staffordshire University, with 14 universities and colleges, 50 projects and 150 students – the biggest showcase yet, and the largest games industry Student Showcase in the UK. Participating universities and colleges including University of Hull, Sheffield Hallam University, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Bolton, University Campus Doncaster, University Centre Grimsby, University of Leeds, University Centre Leeds, University of Huddersfield, Staffordshire University, University of York, York St John University , Leeds City College and University of Sunderland.
Full story here
14 Universities, 50 projects, 159 students and judges from Sumo Digital, Red Kite Games, Rebellion, Revolution, Pitstop Productions and Distinctive Games.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology
5th June
Panel at Climb 2024
23rd May
GaMaYo presented by Game Republic
Tileyard North, Wakefield
5pm – 6pm (with special VIP networking for Game Republic members 4pm – 5pm)
Sponsored by Tileyard North
GaMaYo welcomed 400 developers and industry from across the North of England, 26 new games to play, roundtables, networking and more
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology
18th April
Game Republic: New Partners and PR
Thursday 18th April
KPMG, 1 St Peter’s Square, Manchester, M2 3AE
3.30pm – 6pm
(sign-in and networking 3.30pm – 4pm)
In collaboration with Gameopolis and FORMAT GG
This event looked at new partners and new markets for games as well as general PR insights. The event will be followed by the FORMAT VIP industry party at the BierKeller in Manchester. Full story here.
The event featured talks from Ben Robinson (ID@Xbox) on Game Pass and other opportunities on Xbox, Scallywag Arcade (Draw & Code) about licensing and making Taskmaster VR, Charley Grafton-Callaghan from Grafton-Callaghan PR about planning your games promotion and dealing with influencers, and Jonathan Lloyd (CG Hero) about working with freelance artists. Special guests included Sony PlayStation XDEV.
Thanks to KPMG for the use of the amazing venue!
6th March
Game Republic Yorkshire Games Festival Reception & Dinner
sponsored by Johnston Carmichael with a BFI Roundtable talk
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology
27th February 5pm to 6pm
Exclusive GR Online Event with Valve
Virtual event with Q&A with Valve’s Erik Peterson and Alden Kroll
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology
Thursday 18th January 4pm to 7.30pm
Narrative Design and Trends Forecast for 2024
Sponsored by Revolution
Avenue HQ Leeds
The event included a forecast of trends by GI.Biz Chris Dring and a panel on narrative design with leading writers including Marvel, DC and Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell, Award-winning Dreaming Methods Judi Alston and Charles Cecil, creator of Broken Sword from Revolution and an update from Ben Board- Epic on Unreal and Fortnite.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology
Wednesday 13th December 2023
The Game Republic Christmas Party & Quiz 2023 sponsored by Boneloaf
Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology #GR20
Thursday 23rd November 2023
GameDevDay including a Game Republic and GaMaYo event, featuring more than 350 developers from Yorkshire and across the North with something extra special for our 20th Anniversary year! This event is headline sponsored and hosted by Tileyard North. Event sponsors are Coatsink and Lenovo.
Game Republic Awards story here
The event included – Joshua Garrity, Head Game Scout at Secret Mode delivering a talk “Confidence is a skill, not a personality trait”, Colin Macdonald, UK Games Fund with a Content Fund update, Matt Handrahan, Kepler Interactive/Kowloon Nights on publisher funding available and Gus Curley, London Venture Partners plus 20 demos of new games and the Game Republic Awards also featured here
If you have free tickets, please consider making a donation to SpecialEffect here – our chosen Charity Partner for our 20th Anniversary year.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology #GR20
Thursday 5th October 2023
XR, Virtual Production and Beyond
with XR Stories, Barclays and Game Republic
Confirmed guests and speakers include:-
- Elaine Wong (Pico VR) presenting about opportunities on this VR platform,
- Richard England(Reflex Arc) with a talk on virtual production pre-vis for Marvel’s Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania,
- Draw & Code presenting on using games tech for non-games
- + more guests, talks, an expo of XR companies, special roundtables and refreshments.
Join us for roundtable discussions providing attendees with the chance to engage with experts and industry leaders on the latest trends and developments. For people working in film and TV production, games development, and software makers, the event is a great opportunity to network with like-minded individuals and gain valuable insights into the industry.
Game Republic Members – FREE
If you have free tickets, please consider making a donation to SpecialEffect here – our chosen Charity Partner for our 20th Anniversary year.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology #GR20
19th July, Arcade Club Leeds – full write-up here – thanks for coming and thanks to our Official Partners Barclays, Escape Technology and Red Kite Games. It was great to hear the applause as we thanks each one of you for your support this year.
Thursday 21st September 2023
Investment lunch – insights on all things investment and exit featuring panellists from Hiro Capital, UK Games Fund, Lewis Silkin, Red Kite Games and Square Enix Collective with light lunch and networking
12 noon to 2.30pm at Kollider Castle House, Kollider, Castle St Sheffield S38LU
Speaker panelists include:
Lauren Hunter – Producer at Square Enix Collective
Spike Laurie – Partner at Hiro Capital
Simon Iwaniszak – StudioDirector at Red Kite Games
Laura Harper -Partner at Lewis Silkin
Ian Jarvis – High Growth & Entrepreneurs Business Manager at Barclays
Colin MacDonald – UK Games Fund representative
Big thanks to Barclays Eagle Lab at Kollider in Sheffield for hosting the event, and to our Official Partners for 2023, Barclays, Red Kite Games and Escape Technology.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology #GR20
Game Republic Arcade Birthday Party – the cake wasn’t a lie!
Tuesday 6th June, University of Bradford
Game Republic Student Showcase and Winners Reunion
Event Sponsor: Pitstop Productions
Find out more about their incredible work here
This was a Game Republic and invited guests only event.
If you had free access to this event – please consider making a donation to SpecialEffect here – our chosen Charity Partner for our 20th Anniversary year.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology #GR20
Bonus event for 2023
Tuesday 23rd May, Online Only
Valve Webinar
This is a live webinar business event on 23rd May, from 4pm-5pm, with Alden Kroll, Valve with all the latest news and opportunities with Steam and the Steam Deck Console. There’ll be a presentation followed by a Q&A where you can ask live questions.
If you got free tickets, please consider making a donation to SpecialEffect here – our chosen Charity Partner for our 20th Anniversary year.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology #GR20
Event overview and insights here
Wednesday 10th May, Leeds – Story here
GameDevDay Game Republic and GaMaYo events, featuring more than 250 developers from Yorkshire and across the North
This event was sponsored by SIGN
If you had free tickets, please consider making a donation to SpecialEffect here – our chosen Charity Partner for our 20th Anniversary year.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology #GR20
Event review here
Wednesday 26th April, Guildhall, York
Games Talent – advice and help on attracting and retaining talent at your games company
Featuring Chris Dring, GamesIndustry.biz talking Best Places to Work and Shahid Ahmad (ex-Sony) discussing changing negative to positive attitudes to your job – Rosie Taylor, content and community manager for Safe in Our World discussing ‘Navigating toxicity in games in community-facing roles’
If you got free tickets, please consider making a donation to SpecialEffect here – our chosen Charity Partner for our 20th Anniversary year.
20th Anniversary Official Partners: Escape Technology, Barclays and Red Kite Games #GR20
Thursday 9th March, Leeds Games Pitching – Tips and insights into how to make winning pitches with Tencent and Huey Games went online due to snow!
David Valjalo, Creative Director of Strategic Partnerships at Tencent presented about opportunities for developers and provides insights on pitching to investors. Rob Hewson, CEO & Creative Director at Huey Games also did a Q & A and showed example pitches for publishers – Jamie Sefton closed the event with tips for those attending GDC.
If you got free tickets, please consider making a donation to SpecialEffect here – our chosen Charity Partner for our 20th Anniversary year.
20th Anniversary Official Partners: Barclays, Red Kite Games and Escape Technology #GR20
Wednesday 8th February 2023, Bradford
Yorkshire Games Festival Speakers Reception and Dinner
A special event to celebrate the YGF 2023 with industry guests including BAFTA and speakers from the festival, with drinks reception and curry.
Official Partners: Red Kite Games, Barclays and Escape Technology
#GR20 – Donations to SpecialEffect here
Thurs 26th Jan 2023, Sheffield
Games PR Special featuring Devolver and Renaissance PR
4pm – 7pm
Game Republic business event at the Showroom in Sheffield, followed by networking
Wed 14th December 2022, Leeds
7.30pm – 11pm
Game Republic Christmas Quiz & Party – very special treat for all GR members this year. Details to be revealed soon!
Sponsored by XR Games, Barclays and Red Kite Games
Thurs 24th November, Leeds
GameDevDay – two developer events, with Game Republic from 4pm – 6pm, then the GaMaYo evening networking event from 6pm – 10.30pm
Sponsored by Barclays, Escape Technology, Flix Interactive, Radical Forge, Hiro Capital, Creative Growth Finance and AWS
Thurs 20th October, York
4pm – 7.30pm
Game Republic event at the newly restored Guildhall in York with XR Stories – an AR/VR/XR special
Wed 28th September, Sheffield
4pm – 7pm
Game Republic business event at the Showroom in Sheffield, followed by networking sponsored by Boneloaf
Wednesday 20th July, Leeds
Game Republic Summer Arcade Party 2022
The return of our games-playing party at the fantastic Leeds Arcade Club!
6pm – 10.30pm – includes pizza and drinks
Tuesday 7th June, York
Game Republic Student Showcase 2022
A competition for final-year students from our Educational Partners to win one of 5 awards including Game Art, Game Design and Best Team!
Kindly sponsored by Rebellion North, Distinctive Games, Sumo Digital, Red Kite Games, Barclays and Revolution Software
Wednesday 25th May 2022
GaMaYo!
Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds from 6pm
We’re back after two years! The best industry networking with more than 200 Northern people in a friendly, inclusive space, with new games demos from developers across Yorkshire and the North.
Lead sponsor: Red Kite Games
Also sponsored by Escape Technology and Rebellion North
Wednesday 27th April, Leeds
Game Republic business event at Barclays Eagle Lab from 4pm – 7pm
Features guests Curve Games, XR Games and Emma Cowling.
Tuesday 29th March, Sheffield
Game Republic Business Event
Live at the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield from 4pm!
Thursday 24th February 2022
Game Republic event in association with Gameopolis
HOST Salford, 4pm – 8pm
Featuring speakers Radical Forge and Huey Games
Sponsored by Escape Technology
Thursday 17th February 2022, Bradford
Game Republic Speakers Reception & Dinner at the Yorkshire Games Festival 2022
Sponsored by Barclays and Escape Technology
Wednesday 26th January 2022, Leeds
Belgrave Music Hall, 6pm – 10.30pm
Game Republic (delayed) Christmas Quiz and Party!
Includes quiz, pizza and drinks!
Lead Sponsor Red Kite Games
Also sponsored by Escape Technology
Thursday 18th November 2021, Leeds
Game Republic Business Event
Sponsored by Yogscast Games
Belgrave Music Hall, 5pm – 8pm
Games business event featuring talks from Irwin Mitchell solicitors on publishing contracts and Yogscast! Networking with drinks and pizza afterwards.
Wednesday 20th October 2021 – Online
Game Republic – PR/Journalism Online Special
4pm – 4.45pm
Featuring speakers including the Editor-in-Chief of VGC, Andy Robinson, plus Founder of Renaissance PR for games, Stefano Petrullo and Ella Romanos and Victoria Powell from the exciting new Indielab Games Accelerator for West Yorkshire!
Watch here
Wednesday 22nd September 2021
3.30pm – 6.30pm
National Videogame Museum, Sheffield
Sponsored by Escape Technology and Barclays
Game Republic’s first physical event for 18 months! Featuring guest speakers from Merge Games, Barclays, Sumo Digital and HOST Salford, and the opportunity to play some amazing retro and modern games at the NVM! Followed by drinks and networking.
Wednesday 28th July 2021
5pm – 8pm
Water Lane Boathouse pub, Leeds
Sponsored by Red Kite Games
We’re back! Our first physical event for 16 months – an informal get-together outdoors with drinks, and we’ll also post an online event with presentations on the same day with Team17 and Red Kite Games.
Thursday 24th June 2021
4pm – 4.45pm
Game Republic online event with Humble Bundle! Featuring a chat and Q&A with John Polson from Humble (screenshot below) about their various publishing opportunities for developers, as well as the BFI and DIT.
Thursday 10th June 2021
4pm – 4.45pm
Game Republic online event with GOG.com!
Special event featuring a presentation and Q&A with one of the biggest PC games platforms on the planet – GR members attend for free!
Wednesday 26th May 2021
4pm – 4.45pm
Game Republic Student Showcase 2021 – Award Show!
Kindly sponsored and judged by Red Kite Games, Sumo Digital, Rockstar Leeds, Revolution and Rebellion North.
Also sponsored by Barclays
Thursday 13th May 2021
4pm – 4.45pm
Game Republic business event featuring new publisher Secret Mode, plus new Northern games media company BGFG and games insurers GG Insurance
Thursday 29th April 2021
4pm – 4.45pm
Platform-holder Microsoft Xbox with a presentation and Q&A just for GR members!
Thursday 25th March 2021
4pm – 4.45pm
Games Business Special featuring Steve Tagger (nDreams), Aaron Trebble (DLA Piper) and Ron Ashtiani (Consultant, ex-Atomhawk).
Thursday 11th March 2021
5pm – 5.45pm
Presentation and Q&A with global games investor Makers Fund
Thursday 18th February 2021
4pm – 4.45pm
Funding Special – with Ella Romanos from Fundamentally Games discussing different types of games funding and investment available, plus Deborah Farley from UK Games Fund ‘s Tranzfuser scheme
Thursday 21st January 2021
4pm – 4.45pm
LEGO Ventures – with Senior Associate Parin Shah discussing “digital play” funding
Thursday 17th December 2020
iOS event and Christmas Quiz!
Thursday 26th November
Game Republic online business event with Devolver Digital – 4pm
PLUS!
Game Republic/GaMaYo Retro Games Special! 6pm – 8pm
Plus Retro Games celebration with prize draw
Thursday 17th December
The return of the Game Republic Christmas Quiz ™!
Wednesday 14th October
Games Business Event
With Yves Le Yaouanq, Senior Scout and Business Development at Ubisoft
Thursday 24th September
3pm – 4pm
VR/XR special
With talks from XR Stories, nDreams, Realised Realities – and a panel featuring Cooperative Innovations
Tuesday 1st September
Games Funding Special
Featuring UK Games Fund and Creative England
Thursday 30th July
Valve Event
Live Q&A on how games companies can get the best out of Valve’s Steam digital store
Wednesday 22nd July
7pm – 8pm
Game Republic Summer Party Online!
Sponsored by Escape Technology
Every ticket includes 3 free Namco games – Pac-Man, Dig Dug and Galaga.
Tuesday 14th July
Games Jobs Live: Game Republic
4pm – 6pm
Sponsored by Red Kite Games and Sumo Digital
FREE games recruitment event for anyone interested in a job in the Yorkshire and Northern England games industry
Wednesday 8th July
Working with Influencers
Rich Keith, CEO of Fourth Floor Creative will present about the current YouTube/Twoitch etc environment and how games companies can successfully work with influencers online to sell their games.
Thursday 25th June
Game Republic Studio Special with Team17!
Special live event in association with Team17 – included talks on game development and publishing.
Thursday 11th June
Game Republic – Running a Games Business webinar
Special business webinar panel with Viktorya Hollings (Boomdash Digital and ex-PopCap), Caspar Field (ex-Wish Studios, now Talk Management), David Clark (Green Man Gaming, Cuba Entertainment) and more – plus a talk from Anna Mansi (BFI).
Sponsored by Barclays
Tuesday 26th May
Game Republic Student Showcase 2020 Awards Show
Online edition! Kindly sponsored by Rebellion North, Sumo, Revolution, Red Kite Games and Barclays!
Thursday 7th May 2020
Game Republic GameDevDay Online – includes webinar with ID@Xbox
Plus! GR/GaMaYo online Slack from 6pm to share games and chat with ID@Xbox, The Irregular Corporation and more
Thursday 16th April 2020
Game Republic online webinar with Kowloon Nights
Thursday 2nd April 2020
Game Republic online webinar with Arran Langmead from Epic Games
Wednesday 5th February 2020
Game Republic Reception and Dinner
at the Yorkshire Games Festival 2020
National Science & Media Museum Bradford and Omar Kan’s Restaurant
Sponsored by Barclays
Thursday 23rd January 2020
National Videogame Museum, Sheffield
Games Business event, with XR Games, Sumo Digital, UK Games Fund & more
Wednesday 11th December 2019
Leeds Adelphi Hotel (upstairs)
Game Republic Christmas Party & Quiz!
The LEGENDARY Christmas Quiz returns…
Sponsored by Red Kite Games
Wednesday 27th November 2019
Leeds – AvenueHQ & Belgrave Music Hall (upstairs)
GameDevDay!
Sponsored by Kwalee, nDreams, PitStop Productions and Coatsink
Featuring both Game Republic and GaMaYo events.
Wednesday 30th October 2019
Venue: Platform Leeds, 4pm – 6pm
Sponsored by Escape Technology!
Game Republic business development event featuring Teressa Wright, Producer at Square Enix Collective with useful publishing and funding advice, games writer Chris Bateman (Discworld Noir), with “A Short Narrative Design Survival guide” plus Stefano Petrullo, Renaissance PR with a talk on the current games promotion landscape.
Thursday 19th September 2019
Venue: Sheffield Kollider powered by Barclays
Game Republic business event featuring Failbetter Games, PitStop Productions.
Includes entry to Sumo Digital’s Riverside Games Night!
Wednesday 24th July
Venue – Leeds Arcade Club
Game Republic Summer Arcade Party 2019!
Headline Sponsor: Escape Technology
Sponsor: Red Kite Games
GR members go free!
Monday 3rd June
University of Hull
Game Republic Student Showcase 2019!
Kindly sponsored by Sumo Digital, Revolution Software, Rebellion North and Red Kite Games
Thursday 9th May
Game Republic/GaMaYo GameDevDay 6
Leeds
Featuring both Game Republic and GaMaYo events!
Kindly sponsored by ChilliConnect, Escape Technology and Rebellion
Thursday 18th April
Game Republic featuring Philip Oliver (GameDragons), Damian Murphy (XR Stories) and Noirin Carmody (Revolution – pictured here)
Venue – York St John University
Thursday 7th March
GameDev Knowledge Share Special!
Venue – Avenue HQ Leeds
Wednesday 6th February
Game Republic Speakers Reception & Dinner
Yorkshire Games Festival
Bradford
Sponsored by Red Kite Games
Wednesday 23rd January 2019
GR/VR
Sheffield featuring DocFest, Realised Realities, Reflex Arc, ImmerseUK and Hammerhead VR
Tuesday 11th December
Game Republic Christmas Party & Quiz
Sponsored by Red Kite Games
Leeds
Thursday 22nd November
GameDevDay
Leeds
Game Republic & GaMaYo events
Kindly sponsored by Fourth Floor Creative, Samsung and Sheridans
Wednesday 17th October
GameMakers @ Platform, Leeds
Green Man Gaming, KTN and Shoosmiths
Thursday 27th September 2018
Sheffield Kollider
Featuring Identity Spark, PlayWerks, Shoosmiths and ADV
Followed by the Sumo Digital Riverside Games Night
Wednesday 18th July 2018
Game Republic Summer Party
Sponsored by Insight Studios Ltd
Thursday 7th June 2018
Game Republic Student Showcase 2018
Leeds Beckett University
Sponsored by Red Kite Games, Sumo Digital and Revolution Software
Thursday 3rd May 2018
Leeds
Game Republic & GaMaYo
#GameDevDay
Partnered with the Leeds International Festival
Also sponsored by Unity, PlayIgnite and Eaton Smith
Wednesday 4th April
York St John University
Business of Games event featuring Renaissance PR & Revolution Software
Wednesday 21st February
Leeds
iOS Special- featuring Travis Ryan from Dumpling Design discussing Smash Tanks! and ARKit
Wednesday 24th January 2018
Sheffield Hallam University
GR/VR
Cutting-edge VR/MR/AR talks from SIE PlayStation developer relations, VISR VR, Realised Realities, Creative Europe and Cooperative Innovations plus playable demos, drinks and networking.
Wednesday 13th December
Game Republic Christmas Party & Quiz
Featuring food, drinks and the Christmas Quiz (won by Red Kite Games) – plus a prize draw that raised £175 for Save the Children
Thursday 16th November
Game Republic and GaMaYo events, Leeds
Headline Sponsor Amazon Appstore. Also sponsored by Boneloaf
#GameDevDay
Wednesday 8th November
Game Republic Speakers Dinner
Yorkshire Games Festival, Bradford
Sponsored by Red Kite Games
Wed 18th October
Mobile Games Special
Sponsored by Samsung
Showroom, Sheffield
Thursday 14th September
Game Changers Lunch
IGGI Conference, University of York
Sponsored by Spirit AI and featuring Sony XDev & Ukie
Wed 5th July 2017
Game Republic Summer Arcade Party
Sponsored by Escape Technology, Autodesk, Revolution Software and Insight Studios.
Leeds
Thursday 8th June
Game Republic Student Showcase 2017
University of Leeds
Kindly sponsored by Sumo Digital, Revolution and Red Kite Games. Also featuring a talk by Microsoft HoloLens.
8th June 2017.
© Victor De Jesus
Thursday 27th April 2017
GameDevDay
Headline sponsor, Amazon Appstore and supported by Autodesk and Escape Technology with sponsor Leeds International Festival
Game Republic event featuring PlayStation VR, Amazon Appstore, Yogscast and more. Followed in the evening by GaMaYo #12, with more than 250 developers attending, 20+ games on-show and a competition from Amazon Appstore.
Thursday 23rd March 2017
Storytelling in Games
Leeds, Game Makers Space
Featured Richard Cobbett (writer, Sunless Sea), Steve Ince (writer, Broken Sword) and Andy Campbell (Dreaming Methods) and John Dennis (Insight Studios) discussing games writing and story development. The event also featured Mario Viviani from Amazon Appstore
Thursday 16th February 2017
University of York, DC Labs
2.30pm – 5.30pm
Selling Your Game
PR & Marketing for small games developers
Featured Stefano Petrullo, Renaissance PR
York and Ago Simonetta, ID@Xbox. Plus the Department for International Trade
Wednesday 25th January 2017
2.30pm – 5.30pm
GR/VR
Featuring talks from Atomhawk, Dubit Ltd, Sigtrap and DC Labs. Sponsored by DC Labs and in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University
Wednesday 7th December
Game Republic Christmas Quiz Party!
Hosted at the Adelphi Hotel, Leeds – 6pm – 11pm
Game Republic is supported by Autodesk and Escape Technology. The event was sponsored by Insight Studios Ltd.
Thursday 24th November 2016
Game Republic, supported by Autodesk and Escape Technology presented #GameDevDay at FutureLabs Leeds. Headline Sponsored by Creative England GamesLab Leeds, who announced their new funding and business support initiative – with sponsors Escape Technology and HP, Merge Games and the University of Leeds.
Followed by GaMaYo #11 at Shooters, Leeds – Headline Sponsored by Creative England GamesLab Leeds – with sponsors Escape Technology and HP, Merge Games and the University of Leeds.
9th November – 13th November 2016
Yorkshire Games Festival at the National Media Museum
Includes talks by John Romero (Doom), Brenda Romero (Wizardry), Charles Cecil (Revolution) and Rhianna Pratchett (Tomb Raider) and a Yorkshire Games Showcase featuring Sumo Digital, Team17, Kotori Studios, Red Kite Games, Dumpling Design, Sigtrap and more.
Thursday 10th November 6.30pm – 10pm
Exclusive Game Republic Speakers Dinner
Sponsored by Red Kite Games, Escape Technology and HP
Special exclusive members event in partnership with the National Media Museum and the Yorkshire Games Festival in Bradford, and featured special guests and speakers from the festival including John Romero and Brenda Romero.
Wednesday 19th October
Mobile Games Design
featuring a talk by Simon Iwaniszak, MD, Red Kite Games on “Developing Profitable Premium Mobile Games” and Nigel Little, MD, Distinctive Games on “Success with Free-to-Play Games” – plus a Q&A.
Announcement of Game Republic’s official support from Autodesk.
Monday 12th September 2016
Game Changers Lunch in York with Sony
Game Republic Game Changers lunchtime event was sponsored by Garbutt+Elliott and featured a talk by Sony Producer Strategic Content about Playstation opportunities and 3volution on IP. The event included over 60 attendees from 40+ developers who also joined the NEMOG conference for talks about game analytics, data and business models.
Tuesday 28th June, 2016
Game Republic Summer Arcade Party partnered with Microsoft and sponsored by Insight Studios Ltd, Escape Technology and Autodesk. Also featuring talks by Garbutt & Elliott and Flix Interactive.
Thursday 2nd June 2016, Sheffield
The Game Republic Student Showcase 2016 featuring BBC Worldwide and sponsored by Sumo Digital, Revolution, Dubit Ltd and Insight Studios Ltd. Full Report here.
Wednesday 18th May, Leeds
Amazon Appstore
Thursday 21st April, Leeds (Included GaMaYo event)
Yogscast and Keymailer. Plus Authentic Media about games funding opportunities.
Thursday 3rd March 2016, Leeds
In association with Ukie. Special “Growing Your Games Business” event featuring IBM Softlayer, Sheridans, Eaton Smith, Sumo and Red Kite Games.
Tuesday 17th February 2016, York
Devolver Digital
Wednesday 20th January 2016, Sheffield
Games funding special, with the UK Games Fund, Creative England and Creative Europe.
Tuesday 15th December 2015, Leeds
4pm – 6pm – iOS special
6pm – 11pm – Game Republic Christmas Party! 6pm until late
Kindly sponsored by Autodesk and Testology.
Wednesday 30th September in Leeds
Autodesk & Simplygon
Tuesday 20th October in Sheffield – sponsored by Testology
All 4 Games
Tuesday 28th July, Leeds College of Art
Ella Romanos, Tenshi Grants and Griff Parry, GameSparks
Wednesday 1st July, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
Stefano Petrullo, ex-Senior PR Manager at Ubisoft and Richard Rose, KPMG
Tuesday 2nd June, University of York
Game Republic Student Showcase 2015 – report here.
Tuesday 12th May, Huddersfield
Google UK videoconference
Thursday 30th April, Leeds
Agostino Simonetta, Charlie Skilbeck and the Microsoft ID@Xbox team
Wednesday 25th March, Sheffield
Spencer Low, Producer, Strategic Content at SCEE
Tuesday 27th January 2015, Sheffield
Ste Curran (Agency For Games) and John Sanderson (Pit Stop Productions).
Tuesday 9th December 2014, Leeds
The Game Republic Christmas Party! Kindly sponsored by AMD, 1001 Ways To Die and Insight For Hire.
Featured Kevin Strange from AMD, our Christmas Quiz, drinks, and food!
Thursday 27th November 2014, Sheffield
In partnership with Autodesk and Jigsaw
Featured Phil Scott from NVIDIA and Graham Bell from Autodesk – plus Jigsaw.
Thursday 13th November, Leeds
Featured Ed Valiente and Takashi Ebiike from Nintendo.
Wednesday 5th November, Sheffield
Sheffield Hallam University
Featured a talk from Francesca Walker, Creative Europe.
Wednesday 8th October, Leeds
Leeds College of Art
4.30pm-6.00pm
In partnership with Autodesk and Bluegfx.
Featured a talk from Autodesk and also a session from Joe Robins, Unity 3D and Come Tremeau, Pollen VC.
Tuesday 26th August, Leeds
Event in association with Ukie – Games Tax Relief
Thursday 26th June 2014, Leeds
iOS8 event
Tuesday 3rd June 2014, Huddersfield
Game Republic Student Showcase 2014 featuring Oculus VR and NVIDIA. Kindly sponsored by Rockstar Leeds, Sumo Digital, Just Add Water and Four Door Lemon.
Thursday 22nd May 2014, Leeds
GR event with Rich Keith, Yogscast.
Thursday 24th April 2014, Leeds
GR networking event with Microsoft’s Lee Stott.
Wednesday 2nd April 2014, Sheffield
GR event with Matt Hatherly, Developer Relations, Amazon UK
Thursday 27th February 2014, Huddersfield
Game Republic/Ukie PR/Marketing event
Tuesday 28th January 2014, Sheffield
Koch Media/Deep Silver and the Technology Strategy Board (IC Tomorrow)
2013
Tuesday 10th December 2013, Leeds
Game Republic Christmas Party – featuring Square-Enix and sponsored by GameSparks
Thursday 7th November 2013, Leeds
SCEE – special PlayStation 4 and PS Vita presentation
Agostino Simonetta, Kish Hirani, Patrick Connor, Ian Pickles
Thursday 17th October, Leeds
Game Republic 10th Birthday Party
Wednesday 3rd October 2013, Sheffield
Andy Payne, Havok
Kevin Booth, Autodesk
Thursday 12th September 2013, Leeds
Games funding special
Tuesday 23rd July 2013, Sheffield
iOS7
Wednesday 1st May 2013, Leeds
Pete Smith from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe XDev based in Liverpool presented upcoming opportunities on Sony platforms and an invaluable presentation on how to pitch your game to publishers – what to do to get your game across successfully and what to avoid!
Tuesday 12th March 2013, Sheffield
Charles Cecil, Revolution Software, on the company’s recent Broken Sword Kickstarter campaign
Robin Cramp, BBC Connected Studio, with new opportunities for apps and game development at the BBC
Tuesday 12th February 2013, Leeds
Intel and Standfast Interactive
Thursday 24th January 2013, Sheffield
Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows Phone
2012
Wednesday 12th December 2012, Leeds
Game Republic Christmas Party
6.00pm-late
Sponsored by Ubisoft Reflections
Featuring the Game Republic Christmas Quiz – with prizes!
Special Event: Wednesday 5th December 2012, Newcastle
Game Republic/Eurogamer GameHorizon Conference launch
Live Theatre, Quayside, Newcastle – 6pm-9pm
Included a panel – “Marketing Your Game” with Charles Cecil (Revolution), Simon Byron (Premier PR), Kirsten Kearney (Thumbstar) and Matt Martin (Games Industry International)
Monday 19th November, 2012, Leeds
iOS event, Leeds
Thursday 25th October, 2012, Leeds
Sponsored by HowarthLynch
Howarth Lynch delivered a session on R&D tax credits
Glen Robinson, Amazon Web Services UK, discussed the company’s web services and the Amazon Appstore for Android.
Ignacio Gomez also joined us from Amazon UK
Thursday 6th September 2012, Leeds
GameDev night with TIGA
Featuring Volker Hirsch, BlackBerry
Thursday 26th July 2012, Leeds
Sponsored by Localsoft
Philip Morris, International Sales, Localsoft
Fred Hasson, CEO, Games Capital
Wednesday 4th July 2012, Sheffield
Colin Macdonald, Commissioning Editor for Games, Channel 4
Sheffield Workstation
29th May 2012, Bradford
Game Republic Student Showcase 2012
Featuring Andy Brammall, Unity
University of Bradford
9th April 2012
Apple iOS
NTi, Leeds
30th March 2012
Screen Yorkshire Content Fund
Electric Works, Sheffield
27th February
GOG.com
St John’s University, York
26th January 2012
Microsoft Windows Phone event
Leeds NTi
1st December 2011
SCEE PlayStation event
Sheffield Hallam University
11th November 2011
OnLive event
Round Foundry, Leeds
27th October 2011
Networking event – Round Foundry, Leeds
iOS5
25th August
Networking event – Sheffield
BBC Fiction Factory & Steel Minions (Sheffield Hallam)
27th July
Networking event – Leeds Mint
21st June 2011
Thanks to everyone who attended our Game Republic members-only event on Tuesday 21st June 2011, Showroom 5, Sheffield – “Meet Unity Technologies”.
The event featured:
Andy Brammall (Unity Technologies) talked about opportunities for developers using the Unity engine.
20th April 2011
Thanks to everyone who attended our Game Republic members-only event – 20th April 2011, Sheffield – “App Store Masterclass” kindly sponsored by Sumo Digital.
The event featured:
Nigel Little (Distinctive Games) talking about his company’s experiences of going “freemium” with their title Football Kicks – which went to number one in the UK iOS App Store in February.
Charles Cecil (Revolution Software) delivering a session about lessons learned from his launches of Broken Sword on the iOS App Store – including successes including the “12 Days of Christmas” promotion.
Plus a fascinating talk from Toru Sasaki, Active Gaming Media, about the forthcoming UKTI games mission to the Tokyo Game Show in September.