Join "Portside Game Assembly” Conference by Gamecity Hamburg in 2025

November 14, 2024

Join "Portside Game Assembly” Conference by Gamecity Hamburg in June 2025

We can finally announce the premiere of our new event “Portside Game Assembly” (PSGA) for June 27, 2025 - where indie game leaders meet.

This new B2B conference format on June 27, 2025 focuses on networking and the exchange of learnings between leading international indie game studios. Portside Game Assembly enables studio heads and decision-makers to exchange their experiences in a confidential setting in extraordinary locations of Hamburg, around the harbour - and on the water. Interested parties can fill out this registration form.

The conference program for decision-makers at indie game studios

The Conference part will be hosted on the ship "MS Princess" in Hamburg.

Portside Game Assembly consists of four different elements:

Opening Mixer in the evening before the conference day for conference participants
Networking Brunch in the morning for all games industry professionals
Main conference in the afternoon on the ship "MS Princess" at the Hamburg harbour, exclusively for established indie studios
Games Industry Party in the evening for all games industry professionals.

The main conference invites decision-makers from the international indie games industry on board of a ship, which will cruise through the expansive port of Hamburg. The board program: Selected keynote speeches, impulse talks and productive roundtables by and for indie experts to encourage a targeted exchange in this sub-sector of the games industry.

Studio managers and decision-makers from these studios have already confirmed their participation:

bippinbits (Dome Keeper, PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant) / Germany
Ghost Ship Publishing (Deep Rock Galactic) / Denmark
Indoor Astronaut (Unrailed 1 & 2) / Switzerland
Landfall Games (Content Warning, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator) / Sweden
mooneye studios (Lost Ember) / Germany
Maschinen-Mensch (Curious Expedition 1 & 2, Mother Machine, Codecks) / Germany
Overhype Studios (Battle Brothers, Menace) / Germany
Rockfish Games (Everspace 1 & 2) / Germany
Torpor Games (Suzerain) / Germany

Registration

The conference itself is aimed exclusively at studio leads and decision-makers from internationally successful indie game studios. To enable a curated selection of participants, there will be no direct ticket sales, but interested parties can register for participation here: registration form.

The conference ticket includes the Opening Mixer event the evening before, access to the Networking Brunch, the main conference, and the Games Industry Party for a total of 189 euros.

Tickets for the Indie Networking Brunch and the Games Industry Party are available separately for non-conference attendees and will go on sale at a later time.

Anyone interested in Portside Game Assembly can register for the monthly Gamecity Hamburg newsletter or our special mailing list, and receive information as soon as tickets go on sale: https://gamecity-hamburg.de/newsletter/.

You can find all the information on our website: https://portsideassembly.com

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