Japan’s most popular indie games expo, BitSummit, has opened ticket sales for its 2024 event, which will return to Kyoto on Friday, July 19.BitSummit’s 12th annual event – subtitled ‘Drift’ – will be held at its regular venue of the Kyoto Miyako Messe from July 19 (Friday) to July 21 (Sunday), 2024.
The weekend dates will be open to the general public, with tickets on sale now.The key visual depicting the theme of this year’s BitSummit, “Step into it with all your might!” was unveiled on Wednesday.The event will be streamed on BitSummit’s YouTube, TikTok, Bahamut and Twitch channels in Japanese, English, and Chinese.VGC is the western media partner for BitSummit and you can expect full coverage of the event on these pages, as it happens.Last year’s event was BitSummit’s first fully in-person show since before the pandemic, attracting a record attendance of 23,700 visitors, according to organisers.
In 2019, it attracted around 17,000 visitors.BitSummit Let’s Go!!! Featured around 100 games from more than 20 countries. VGC played and summarised a large chunk of these titles, and crowned its BitSummit Game of the Show.Established in late 2012, BitSummit was originally formed to give Japanese independent game developers a chance to show their games to the world.BitSummit is organised by the Japan Independent Games Aggregate (JIGA) – Q-Games Ltd, Skeleton Crew Studios, Pygmy Studio Co Ltd and BlackSheep.