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CanDev
Growing and supporting Canberra’s game developer community through monthly meetups and more!
CanDev is bringing together local game developers, along with anyone who wants to support them or get involved with the game development industry. We’ve come a long way and our community continues to grow!
CanDev began in little more than a large shed in Canberra. Pizza, a bare room, and a bunch of laptops. That was enough to gather dozens of game developers together to connect and help each other make games.
Since then, we’ve been hosted at CBR Innovation Network, Reload Bar & Games, and Game Plus, with more venues to come. We’ve grown our community, with an online presence of over 500 members, four different types of event, and a regular attendance of about 50-100 people at our monthly Pizza & Pixels meetups.
Game developers of any experience level, playtesters, and anyone keen on games and supporting Canberra’s local game development industry. CanDev helps you connect, share knowledge and experiences, find new job opportunities, and get some great feedback on your creative endeavours.
Why you should support
CanDev?
CanDev is a volunteer-run labour of love, supporting and growing the Canberra game development industry. If you love games, or want to support local businesses, why not support the ones being made right here in Australia’s capital?
There’s a big industry here, and while government support continues to lag behind, community support is more important than ever. The more support CanDev receives, the more we can do for all Canberra developers, at home and away.
Which resources do you need for the project?
CanDev events are run and organised by volunteers. Funding helps us keep CanDev going and growing. Supporting CanDev helps us support the entire game development industry in Canberra and its surrounds.
► Funding helps us keep our events (and website) running, add new events, and put funds toward other support for local developers.
► New venues help us reach out to different audiences.
► Panellists for Career Mode help Canberra’s developers learn new skills and make their businesses more viable.
► Equipment, like computers and large monitors, let us show games at more locations and lower the cost for developers exhibiting their games at conventions.
► Printing banners, shirts, and other promotional material with CanDev branding helps us spread awareness of Canberra’s game development community.
Where will CanDev
go in the future?
CanDev is growing. If we can support and maintain that growth, there’s so much we can do. Running more events for wider audiences. Getting great industry panellists, supporting game developers in learning new skills and building their games and businesses. Branding our banners at conventions to show Australia and the world that Canberra’s united, we make awesome games, and we’re punching above our weight.
What else can we do? You tell us! As always, where the community sees a potential opportunity, need or benefit, CanDev will try to get there – with your invaluable support.
Who is behind CanDev?
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My Skills: Life-long gamer, experienced event manager, organiser of CanDev for the past 2 years.
Male, 30
My Skills: Friendly local game developer with years of experience running game jams and meetups
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