Time for another GameDev Meetup in Klaipėda! Let’s join, share about your work and meet creators almost at the end of summer – on August 28! The event will take place at Culture Factory (also known as KUFA), Bangų st. 5A, Studio 2A on 2nd floor, from 18:00.

This time we’d like to open „the stage” to everyone in the Klaipėda community and around who are working with games, VR and other related fields to share your visions, ideas and creations. Already confirmed updates will come from Tempo Punk, Worldwide Rush, Play Life Creative Studio, BLON and GameOn events.

We’ll have a computer and screen available for short intros (any format works), and afterwards we’ll have time to try some games or view some creative works, so feel free to also bring your laptops!

Please send a message about your idea or project which you’d be interested in presenting to ricardas@lzka.lt. Also, don’t hesitate to contact the organizers at the location before the event!

Special thanks to Culture Factory for helping with this meetup, and our long-term supporters, the Lithuanian Council for Culture!

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Our next meetup is set for April 10 and will take place at CORE Business Center, Ukmergės st. 126.

Our first guest is Anton Rosenko, Art Producer at Room 8 Studio. He will share lessons learned from wide-ranging productions and how to manage people, pipelines and panic attacks.

The second guest is Iryna Baradzina, Business Development Manager at devtodev. Her talk will cover how breaking data silos and fostering a data-driven culture can boost collaboration, improve efficiency, and drive smarter decisions.

The third guest is Laurynas Vainius, Game Director at Engines of Fury. He will offer tips collected during many years in gamedev on how to approach networking and find contacts needed for studio goals.

Afterwards we’ll have some time for chatting, snacks and drinks.

Thanks to devtodev by AppsFlyer for helping with this event, and also to the Lithuanian Council for Culture for continuous support!

Please reserve your ticket on Eventbrite. 

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The next Kaunas Game Developers meetup will be held on April 9.

During the first part of the event, we will have a couple of short-format game development talks and will end the meetup with a longer presentation from our guest – Vilius Lampickas, game marketing professional (ex Paradox Interactive, Avalanche Studios Group, Flashbulb Games and others)! He will talk about how to market a video game without a marketing department.

Where? Radastų g. 2, Kaunas. Ąžuolo salė, 2a. – Ąžuolynas Library, second floor. There will be signs inside the building to show you the way!
When? April 9, doors open at 17:30

Registration not necessary, but you can sign up through FB event or on Discord. 

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Our game developers meetup series return to Kaunas and will take place on October 11 at Vytautas Magnus University, Putvinskio st. 23 (auditorium 311).

Our program:

18:15
„Upcoming Events & Games in Lithuania”
Nora Navardauskaite, events coordinator at Lithuanian Game Developers Association

18:45
Games intros by developers
If you’d like to share what game projects you are working (do a short intro or just show the game to visitors), please contact Ricardas from LGDA (ricardas at lzka dot lt).

19:00
„Developing a grassroots gamedev community”
Game developers Vaidas Vai, Airidas Janonis, game critic Artūras Rumiancevas.

Thanks to Vytautas Magnus University Faculty of Informatics for the help in organizing the meetup, and the Lithuanian Council for Culture for the continuous support!

Also, if you are working with or interested in gamedev in Kaunas, please join the recently launched Discord server Kaunas Game Developers!

Don’t forget to register on Eventbrite!

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Our next meetup is set for September 28th and will take place at Talent Garden Vilnius, located on Vilniaus st. 33.

We will have three guests covering various topics:

 

19:00

„Technical game designers, what do they do?”

Speaker: Vaidas Okunis, Senior Gameplay Designer, Remedy Entertainment

Vaidas is a game designer with 10 years of experience in the industry who is currently working at Remedy Entertainment. He has been working in various design roles as a gameplay designer, technical designer, and system designer.

 

19:30

„Crafting Worlds with Words: From the Kitchen of Storm Warfare”

Speaker: Onur Kocaoglu, Lead Game Copywriter, Janus Interactive

Onur is an award-winning senior advertising copywriter from Turkey with over 16 years of experience and the lead copywriter of the trading card game Storm Warfare.

 

20:00

„Building Web3 Games: From Concept to Blockchain Integration”

Speaker: Edvinas Mandravickas, CTO, Engines of Fury

Edvinas has been working in various games industry tech roles for more than a decade. Currently, he is leading the technical side of Engines of Fury development, which is a top-down extraction shooter.

 

The meetup, like many other association activities, is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. And thanks to Vilnius TechFusion for spreading the word about our events!

Don’t forget to register on Eventbrite!

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Lithuanian Game Developers Association is happy to invite you to a meetup dedicated to computer graphics and digital art. The meetup is absolutely free of charge!

The event will take place on June 8th in the heart of the old town, at Talent Garden Vilnius.

Sessions:

19:00
„Motion Capture Demystified: A Guide for Indie Game Devs”
Speaker: Jonas Balakauskas, Animation Lead, VR studio „Nieko”

19:30
„A Broad Overview of the Art Direction Process for 2D and 3D Animated TV Series”
Speaker: Giedrė Kaveckaitė, Art Director, KELEBEK MEDIA LIMITED (UK)

20:15
„Making the Worlds of God of War”
Speaker: Vilius Petrauskas, Concept Designer on God of War Ragnarök

After the talks, we’ll have a special celebration – 10 years anniversary of the Lithuanian Game Developers Association! 🎂

The event is organized with the support of the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Creative Europe Desk LT.

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Our next meetup is set for May 3rd and will take place at Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, located on Gedimino st. 51. We’ll have three sessions at the conference hall on 5th floor, and afterwards will move to networking part to leisure area (also 5th floor, behind the screen wall).

This time our topics will be focused on several aspects of business development for games creators:

18:15
„Level UP Your IP: Best Practices for Game Developers”
Speakers: Vilija Viešūnaitė and Aurelija Rutkauskaitė, Law Firm TRINITI JUREX

19:00
„Building Your Studio After Game Jam”
Speakers: Lera Batsian and Olegas Pridiukas, Gamedev Camp

19:30
„Q&A Session about Pitching for Investment”
Speaker: Vytautas Dobilas, Gamedev Fund

Thank you to TRINITI JUREX for supporting the meetup!
Also, as with many other Association activities, we’d like to thank the Lithuanian Council for Culture for their support.

Don’t forget to register your tickets on Eventbrite!

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Welcome to the semi-annual event, dedicated to computer graphics in video games and other creative industries! Let’s meet on December 15 in a beautiful location Tech Park Sapiegos (building No 3), listen to creative experiences from our guests and chat about this really active and hopefully productive year!

 

We’ll have three talks coming from different countries and fields of CG:

 

19:00
“Visualizing a Dystopian World of Vesper”
Vilius Petrauskas, Concept Artist
Vilius was part of many ambitious creative projects, including AAA games (God of War Ragnarök, Horizon Forbidden West), architecture and film industry, with most expensive Lithuanian sci-fi movie premiering earlier this year.

 

19:45
“Art of the Hangar’s Creation: the Impact on Player’s Journey”
Mariya Zinchenko, 3D artist at Wargaming
3 years in Wargaming, 4 years in art in IT industry. Graduated in Design. Mariya is an Environment artist and supervisor in World of Tanks. Mostly she creates, manages and supervises the environment of hangars in Wargaming’s biggest game World of Tanks.

 

20:30
“Transitioning from Traditional to Digital Art”
Aleksei Shatunov, Mentor at CG Spectrum College of Digital Art and Animation
After many years as a traditional academic artist and instructor, Aleksei dived into CG and joined games industry, with experiences in Marvel, Upper Deck, Ringtail studios and others. More at Instagram @shatunovaleksei and alekseishatunov.com.

 

After the talks, we’ll continue the evening at Tech Park with a cosy feast. Fingers crossed for nice weather!

 

Big thanks to Wargaming for support and to the Lithuanian Council for Culture, which enabled us to have such an active and eventful year!

 

Don’t forget to register a ticket on Eventbrite!

 

Background art – Dave Chenell.
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We have a great occasion to meet in Kaunas on October 22, as the Lithuanian Game Developers Association will hold an event together with Kaunas Fantasy & Sci-fi fan club „Feniksas“, who are celebrating their 38th birthday!

The event will consist of two parts.

We will start at 15:00 at Kauno Menininkų Namai (Kaunas Artists‘ House), Putvinskio st. 56.

During all the first part of the event we’ll have a workshop dedicated to miniature painting. Learn how to paint miniature figures, see examples and what materials are needed. Create your own figure and bring it home! We will have all the needed equipment at the spot.

15:30 Talk by Mārtiņš Ceplis aka Kamazs (Latvia)

Frontend developer by day (Ubiquity), gamedev by night (Pahris Entertainment)

Hear the story behind development of Space Wreck, a post-apocalyptic RPG in space, which somehow has Klaipėda in it…

16:15 Fireside chat with Aivaras Klimas aka Zuurix

Solo developer with several successful fantasy themed (and fantastic!) games

Witness the chat about creating games alone, love of fantasy and its influence to creativity.

Interviewed by Artūras ‘Artojas’ Rumiancevas

17:00 Panel discussion: Modern Revivals of Fantasy & Sci-fi Works

Join the discussion about a rebirth of fantasy & sci-fi works and themes in different medias, such as literature, cinema, games and more.

From 18:30 everyone is welcome to join the evening birthday party at the nearby bar “Putvinskio 48” (Putvinskio st. 48 :))!

All the traditional Feniksadienis activities and more are set for the evening:

– New members admission ceremony

– Best costume contest (don’t forget to wear something special!)

– Painting competition

– Bar trivia

– Board games and other fun stuff!

Don’t forget to register the ticket on Eventbrite!

The event is organized by Feniksas and the Lithuanian Game Developers Association. LGDA activities are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.

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