Gamedev.world will highlight game devs in 8 languages in a 24-hour streamed event
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Gamedev.world will debut on December 9 and December 10 as a game developer conference translated live into eight languages across 24 hours of streaming.
The conference, the sequel to an event first held in 2019, features more than 30 speakers from all over the world, said Rami Ismail, former co-head of Vlambeer and a video game consultant, in an interview with GamesBeat.
It’s a pretty amazing virtual event, as it will debut with simultaneous translation eight eight languages, including Arabic, Brazilian-Portuguese, English, French, Hindi, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. It will also be close-captioned.
The show includes speakers like Ismael Daouda Nouhoun from Lomé, Togo. He will speak about the importance of creating and using your own game engine. Daouda Nouhoun is the creator of a mobile game called Transform, and it’s very unlikely Western game developers know about him.
Nourhan ElSherief, a developer in Egypt and technical lead at Ironbelly Games, will give a talk about empowering local communities to help game developers. She has been in games for 10 years, working on multiplayer double-A games with the Unreal Engine.
And Rasheed Abueideh, designer of a game called Liyla and the Shadows of War, will talk about “Gaza and the Shadows of War.” The Liyla game was about the 2014 Gaza war and its impact on a girl in an effort to raise awareness about a humanitarian dilemma.
Some of the talks focus on indies or game development. Some focus on being an entrepreneur and raising money. Some are about the nature of human collaboration and communication.
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