As you will have heard, UCA is the host venue for the indie game’s festival GDLX25!
This is an exciting moment for UCA Games, to be hosting one of the annual Spring / Summer games festival circuit events.
We are offering the opportunity to buy discounted student tickets!
This is possible when we bulk buy direct from GDLX. These tickets will be £22 per ticket and available from the UCA shop.
GDLX25: around 50 playable indie games, 2 talk streams, a Fireside Chat stage and lots of networking!
Don’t delay, buy soon before the GDLX25 is sold out!
Detailed Description
It should not be a surprise that this is a paid ticketed event. The same as any other contemporary games festival: New Games Plus, A MAZE, WASD, Feral Vector, REZZED, EGX, ComiCon and so on.
All things cost money to run, especially games events, and with a maximum event capacity of 550-600 people, if all the games & creative tech students were free, and the whole school attended, the event organisers would be broke. GDL would collapse and in the current climate, would probably never run again. Ergo, the need to pay for tickets.
What about the Guildford Games Festival (GGF), you may ask? It is an outlier in this event scenario. GGF has a list of large AAA and AA studios who are big sponsors of the event, each spending thousands to be a headline sponsor (including UCA Games) and this is why it can offer free tickets to its one day G-Live event capacity. This is partly done to keep Guildford on the map, when other hubs around the UK are growing.
By contrast, GDLX25 is an indie dev only event, made up of solo and small team developers, and to support this fragile community who are making wonderful unique games, it allows the exhibitors to showcase for free. Amazing! Compare this to having a small stand at EGX/ REZZED in the Indie Zone (we have previously done this), which costs thousands per table. Indie devs cannot afford this.
Another example of a game’s festival hosted at a university, is AdventureX, at Greenwich University in London, which I have attended over the last couple of years. It was not a free event. Everyone, including Greenwich students had to buy their own tickets. The exception being volunteers, and I am pleased to say we have a dozen GDLX25 volunteers from our school.
As you can see, by attending GDLX25 you would be directly supporting our indie games industry.
We look forward to seeing you there. GDLX25 - Play, chat, network!
