Game developers from studios across the North celebrated and competed in the Game Republic yearly (and LEGENDARY) Christmas Party and Quiz on Thursday 12th December 2024 at Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds!
Attendees enjoyed incredible pizzas, a free drink sponsored by Plus Accounting, mince pies and the games-themed quiz with Christmas stocking prizes stuffed with a limited edition Tamagotchi made by Hudson Soft, Pokémon cards, a GR Limited Edition mug, Undercover badges by Sigtrap and some Nintendo merch for each team member.
Studios and organisations including Team17, Radical Forge, Sumo, KudosQA, Snowglobe, Maximalist, Revolution, Red Kite Games, Northrak, Pitstop Productions, Betajester, Just Add Water, Reflex Arc, Dogbox Games, North Wave Audio, Otterweave Games Studio, Staffordshire University, Salford University, Eaton Smith, Sports Director, Mad Cowie Productions to name a few attended the event.
It was another very special evening and a fantastic way to see out a busy year of events to support the games industry in The North. A huge thanks to our Official Partners for their incredible support of all our events throughout 2024 – Escape Technology, Red Kite Games and Barclays.
“Any teams should be happy if they got to mid-table status this year!”
Jackie Mulligan GR
The results are in
The quiz was hotly contested with the top two teams only 2 points apart (29 and 31 out of 40). Boss Kevin came second but in a surprise split from the usual Revolution squad, Charles Cecil joined the Pitstop Productions team deserting Noirin Carmody, Roger Womack, Harry Flanagan, David Cecil, Matt Shepcar (featured image). The group decided to form their own team called “As Long As We Beat Charles”. They not only beat Charles but all other teams in a glorious victory. Congratulations! Last place was admirably taken by Mad Cowie Productions who won two extra drink vouchers to drown their sorrows. It was a challenging quiz this year and Jackie Mulligan said “Any teams should be happy if they got to mid-table status this year!”
Prizes galore!
After the quiz there was a raffle to win a SpecialEffect EA football shirt, a signed (at the event) Broken Sword box set, various merch or ‘games tut’ as Jamie described it and a pair of FREE tickets for our Yorkshire Games Festival Reception & Dinner on 12th February. The raffle raised £500 for the charity.
Happy Christmas one and all! Enjoy the gallery of some of the moments we managed to capture below. The good photos in this gallery courtesy of Corrupted Visuals – corrupted visuals.com
