Norfolk Game Developers

08/04/2024

Get your game or project noticed! Find out how to showcase your work for FREE at Norwich Games Festival

20/10/2022

👋Hello everyone!👋

Just to let you know that our team do not regularly update this page. To get in touch with us, please reach out via Meetup, Discord or Twitter.

➡️For meetup events visit our Meetup page: ➡️https://www.meetup.com/norfolkgamedevs/

To join our online community, there is a Discord server invite link on our Meetup.com page! 🎉

We want to bring together the game developers of Norfolk: professional, indie, serious, casual or one offs. If you are interested in making games and meeting like-minded people then you are welcome. T

01/09/2020

For anyone who missed our brilliant Fireside Chat with this evening, the video is now available to view at your leisure on our Twitch Channel here: https://twitch.tv/videos/728291499?t=00h08m36s

More talks to follow, watch this space!

NorfolkGameDevs went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Just Chatting VOD now.

31/08/2020

Join us tonight for our first "Fireside Talk" event. On Tuesday 1st September at 8pm we will be talking to Ricky Walton of Mediatonic, creators of Fall Guys. Ricky is a Norfolk Game Devs member based in Norwich and will share his experience of getting into the games industry.

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/NorfolkIndieGameDevelopers/events/272803099/

Twitch Broadcast: https://www.twitch.tv/norfolkgamedevs
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/u8zhp3y

13/10/2019

Could you spare 5 mins of your time to help us with some opinions on our future plans?

We're working towards something which could be pretty exciting, if all goes well, but we need some guidance from this community to help shape these plans. Please help us by completing a short survey by following this link:

https://forms.gle/bmLdsY7zfPQqwVy48

Your responses to the below, no matter what your relationship to games development or Norfolk, will be hugely appreciated by all of us here at NGD.

We want to create a space in Norwich to support the growth of the games development industry within Norfolk. The Games Hub would centre around a building or work space which would offer a range of services to those interested in the creation of video games. It's aim would be to support and retain ex...

01/04/2016

Norfolk-based game developers are exhibiting at the Norwich Gaming Festival at the Forum from 10:00am - 4:00pm until 2nd April. Come along, try their latest games, give feedback and lend your support to this growing industry in East Anglia. http://www.norwichgamingfestival.com/Games.html

The Norwich Gaming Festival 2016: An inclusive festival in Norwich city centre, open to the general public, celebrating all aspects of video games and gaming!

01/02/2016

If you ever wondered how the groundbreaking animation in Prince of Persia was achieved (over 30 years ago!), check out this amazing video footage which Jordan Mechner hand traced, frame by frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC3WEwSJoHs

Jordan Mechner's old journals take you behind the scenes of the creation of a classic 1980s video game. jordanmechner.com/ebook

22/01/2016

Great to see both A Fox Wot I Drew and Henry Hoffman make this list! http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/01/22/51-british-games-to-look-out-for-in-2016 - congrats!

We've sifted through 100 British-made games planned for 2016, and these are the 51 to look out for.

05/01/2016

Amazing achievement by blind player Terry Garrett - completing the Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time in 5 years (bet 4 1/2 of them were spent in the *&$! water temple...).

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/01/04/it-took-him-five-years-but-a-blind-gamer-has-completed-ocarina-of-time

Despite being totally blind, Terry Garrett has finally completed The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

17/12/2015

Reminder - we'll be meeting TONIGHT from 7:30pm at Pottergate in central Norwich. All welcome - do come along if you make, would like to make, or just want to chat about games.