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See answers to some of the most frequently asked questions regarding gamesweekberlin. If you still have a question that you can’t find the answer to, please don’t hesitate to contact us at gamesweekberlin@booster-space.com
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This year gamesweekberlin will come with some new and old formats. Under the motto play.discover.connect, gamesweekberlin will happen as an on-site event on September 16 and 17, 2022. The event is powered by TULPAR Gaming Notebook. We play at the former Colosseum cinema in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and decided to focus on one day for business and one day for all. We call the respective days: Casual Business Friday and Playful Pop-up Saturday. In addition, there will be gatherings in Berlin over the Spring and Summer of 2022 and the Dev Booster competition in spring with the final on June 29 2022 on Twitch.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE PLANNED FOR 2022?
The hightlight of the year most definitely is the gamesweekberlin – play.discover.connect taking place in the former multiplex cinema of Colosseum in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. Discover new games, play in VR and connect with influencers, creators, developers, fans and friends through our entertainment stage shows (the transformed cinema 2), Twitch Streams, Discord activities and online business matchmaking via MeetToMatch. Doors for professionals working in the games industry are open on Friday, September 16, and for the public on Saturday , September 17, 2022.
Regular Formats on Twitch www.twitch.tv/gamesweekberlin :
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Most Wanted: Roommates
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Dev Booster Finale on June 29.
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Papa Plays
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Womenize! Inspiring stories
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Tales of Us Unlocked: green futures; marginalised narratives and mythologies
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Special guests and gaming shows
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Event streams live out of the venue of gamesweekberlin on September 17, 2022
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Formats on-site in Berlin:
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Invite only gamesweekberlin Gatherings in Spring and Summer
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Casual Business Friday -Networking and play for business, developers, politics, institutions and multipliers. Featuring Womenize! Luncheon, medianet GAMES Summer Reception, VIP Meet & Greet, MeetToMatch, panel discussions and games discovery exhibition of gamesweekberlin, September 16, 2022
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Playful Pop-up Saturday – PC and Arcades Exhibition, Entertainment Cinema Stage, VR Cinema Shows, Nerdistan Nostalgia, Cosplay Mixer and more at gamesweekberlin – play.discover.connect on September 17, 2022
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Documentation and Education online:
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For talks and more, check out our recordings of past conferences for professionals on the Booster Space Youtube Channel
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Dev Booster games pitches and recordings of our Twitch shows can be found on Youtube
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Dev Booster games are all collected in our official Steam showcase page
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WHEN AND WHERE EXACTLY IS GAMESWEEKBERLIN TAKING PLACE?
The on-site event of gamesweekberlin 2022 takes place on September 16 & 17, 2022 at Colosseum – Schönhauser Allee 123, 10437 Berlin.
Please note: Doors enter through Gleimstraße around the corner!
Opening hours:
Friday 16.09. 02:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. (for business)
Saturday 17.09. 10:00 a.m – approximately 08:00 p.m. (for public)
Furthermore, in 2022 the gamesweekberlin organizes a plethora online and on-site formats. Of some formats, the date is currently still being planned.
Formats on Twitch with fixed dates are to date:
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Most Wanted: Roommates May 19, June 23, October 13, November 10 and December 8, 2022
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Dev Booster Finale on June 29, 2022
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Womenize! Inspiring stories October 10 and December 6, 2022
You can join the shows here: twitch.tv/gamesweekberlin
WHICH TICKET SHOULD I GET FOR WHICH KIND OF ACCESS?
For the public on Playful Pop-up Saturday:
Regular price for anybody older than 12 years of age and who is not eligible for reduced fares or does not come in Cosplay.
Your ticket price is 10 EUR (incl. fees and VAT).
Reduction applies to people in cosplay. And to students, pupils, trainees, voluntary service participants, pensioners, holders of the Ehrenamtskarte of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, ALG II recipients and social welfare recipients, severely disabled persons from 50% MdE – upon presentation of the corresponding ID.
Your ticket price is 7 EUR (incl. fees and VAT).
Kids below the age of 6 years enter for free. But only with an accompanying person with parental authority.
Kids between the age of 6 – 12 years can enter for 5 EUR. But only with an accompanying person with parental authority.
You only want to attend the QuizNightShow or check in on the last hour? Your ticket price is 6 EUR (incl. fees and VAT). But only for visitors older than 18 years of age.
All of these tickets allow entry to any program point or exhibition area within the premises of gamesweekberlin 2022 at the Colosseum venue. This includes live programs and shows in the cinema hall 2, this includes to play yourself on the big screen or to check out our arcade stations or lean back program in the cinema hall 1. All program and exhibition details are subject to change. Some activities require pre registration on-site or have limited capacity. No participation can be guaranteed.
For members of the games industry on Casual Business Friday:
We decided to keep it simple and only offer 1 ticket that gives access to all program points. This included MeetToMatch networking, the medianet GAMES Summer Reception, the panels and talks, the VR Cinema, the playful exhibition, the Dev Booster Arcades and Nerdistan zone and everything else you can find on site.
It’s 79 EUR plus VAT (makes 94.01 EUR for Germans).
HOW DO I ATTEND THE WOMENIZE! GAMES AND TECH LUNCHEON?
This event is invite only! You can find more info here: https://www.womenize.net/
I HAD A TICKET FOR THE FORMER EVENT AND GOT A LOYALTY CREDIT AFTER IT ALL WENT ONLINE. WHAT’S UP WITH THIS IN 2022?
In case you haven’t used your loyalty credit we gave you in 2020 as we had to cancel the on-site event that year yet: it’s still redeemable. This includes the September event or any other upcoming event with tickets. All individuals received an email with information on their personal status. Please browse your inbox for emails from Madeleine and Eventbrite. Please reach out to gamesweekberlin@booster-space.com, if you can’t find it.
HOW ARE YOU ALIGNED WITH A MAZE. / BERLIN, WHICH IS ALREADY HAPPENING IN MAY 2022?
The A MAZE. / Berlin festival took place from May 13-17, 2022. As an hybrid event with a digital exhibition, live concerts and talks in there propriatory A MAZE. / Space. The on-site part of the event is taking place at Silent Green in Wedding, on Tuesday, May 17. We as gamesweekberlin support the organization of the A MAZE. Bazaar – 3rd International Arthouse Games Market. It is meant to be a market for arthouse and controversial independent games and playful media productions which gives authors and artists the opportunity to meet with publishers, funding institutions or future collaborators. The market is running on Monday May 16, online. It includes talks and workshops. Business meetings are arranged via the MeetToMatch platform. In general, A MAZE. is an event partner of the gamesweekberlin family of friends. A MAZE. will have a selected game to play at the exhibition of our event in September 22.
BUT WHY ARE YOU STILL RUNNING THINGS ONLINE?
Some parts happening under the brand of gamesweekberlin are staying online as we want to support our sustainability efforts and reduce our ecological footprint as much as possible. Also hybrid formats give more people around the world the chance to be part of gamesweekberlin. We stick to building the bridges between B2B2C (i.e. business and public) and have inspiring industry talks and gameplay open for all on Twitch – produced in our studio in Berlin Kreuzberg. This offers a wider reach and supports our careers in the games industry support formats. As a positive collateral, we obviously also help condemn the ongoing pandemic as much as possible.
SO DO I NEED TO BE IN BERLIN TO ATTEND GAMESWEEKBERLIN POP-UP AND CASUAL BUSINESS FRIDAY IN SEPTEMBER 2022?
WILL QUO VADIS GAME DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CONFERENCE STILL BE HELD THIS YEAR?
The Quo Vadis game development and business conference (qvconf, or PRO X ), which you usually known as the central part of gamesweekberlin, has slowly migrated into formats and modules of what we today promote as gamesweekberlin. It is not happening as a standalone event anymore. All things content for game designers and businesses are still available for free to access via our Youtube channel. We continuously add videos and recordings there. We also have play and discovery formats streamed live on Twitch. You can read the new formats such as Dev Booster, Womenize! Inspiring Stories and especially the career topics we curate online and on-site as evolutionary spin offs from the original conference. In times of climate crisis, political instability and ongoing pandemics, we decided to refocus on the local and regional industry and offer networking events such as our gatherings, or the political opening event for the makers and shakers behind the scenes. Long story short: there is no conference called Quo Vadis happening anymore, but the spirit of the event continues in content and format modules of gamesweekberlin.
WILL WOMENIZE! GAMES AND TECH BE HELD THIS YEAR AS AN EVENT?
For this year, we have decided to not organize a standalone conference as Womenize! Games & Tech because of the still ongoing pandemic but we will do a networking lunch event during the Casual Business Friday at gamesweekberlin. The networking lunch will be be held by invitation.
Besides that Womenize! concentrates on the interview series Womenize! Inspiring Stories (WIS) which had its Twitch premiere in March this year and there will be some more WIS on Twitch during the year. Stay tuned for Womenize! content here: www.womenize.net.
WILL THERE BE A CAREER DAY THIS YEAR?
No. But on Friday, September 16, we will have some info counters by educational institutions, by companies such as YAGER Development or King. On Saturday we focus on playful interaction but make sure to check out the companies based in Berlin. Most of them are hiring!
HOW DO YOU ENSURE A SAFE SPACE AT THE EVENT?
We have a Safe Space Policy for all our events, which participants and partners agree to by participating in the event.
It is very important to us that we create an event experience where all participants feel comfortable and welcome. We as organizers are in no way willing to tolerate behavior that discriminates against other people based on appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical/mental impairment, origin, age, religion or gaming preferences or the like. Therefore, we also ask all participants to be appropriately attentive and report incidents of this nature directly to the team so that we can act accordingly.
You can find more information about our safe space policy here: https://booster-space.com/safe-space-policy/
YOU PROMOTE GAMESWEEKBERLIN TO BE A GREEN EVENT. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
True that. But we also acknowledge that we cannot avoid any footprint by running gamesweekberlin. All we can do is minimize impact, do our best to help reforestation projects to thrive and first and foremost make a statement and foster public awareness. What we will try to do especially is to avoid any new prints. We will see to upcycle our existing stock of roll-ups, posters and stickers and the likes. We will not incentivize excessive travel and especially not short stopovers and jet-setting. If you want to join us from abroad, please feel invited and welcome! But do consider taking the train, or form car-sharing groups, or take some days of and tour through beautiful Brandenburg, or at least add a couple of days in Berlin to visit Computerspielemuseum, business partners and do other kinds of sightseeing while on the road. We also will have a stand in the so called sustainability zone (follow the trees) where you can donate into growing our forests on gameforest.club. Or use Paypal directly to the donations. Catering will be meat free. Trash avoided as much as possible. And many more activities you can check out on our info page: https://www.gamesweekberlin.com/sustainability/.
If you got an idea or want to contribute to this initiative, please ping us via gamesweekberlin@booster-space.com
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