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We are very pleased to present the Catalan companies taking part at devcom - Gamescom 2023. The Government of Catalonia, through the Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC), under its internationalisation brand Catalan Arts, supports the presence at devcom and Gamescom of a wide Catalan Delegation, with more than 19 representatives attending to the Fair, 5 of them as co-exhibitors at the Catalan Arts Games booth at Indie Arena Booth - Gamescom.
This booklet gathers information on the game studios, agents and incubators, attending devcom and Gamescom 2023 and the professional activities we organize. If you want more
information on a particular company or game, please do not hesitate to contact them directly. You can also get in touch with us at the fair booth or by contacting any of our offices -located in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, London or Paris, for further assistance. We hope you will have a chance to meet all of them and have interesting conversations. Under the label of Catalan Arts, we strengthen the presence of Catalan companies and creative works at international fairs and key professional events, such as Gamescom, in our aim to connect, mentor and support creative companies in their international journey. Please have a look at our website to find more about us:
www.catalanarts.cat/en
VIDEO GAME: AK-XOLOTL
2Awesome Studio is the dev team behind Aeon Drive, Dimension Drive and AK-xolotl. Altered Alma is their new space opera metroidvania game with touches of RPG and romance, set in the futuristic city of Neo-Barcelona.
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2
Stand F010g - E019g
Contact +31 645 382 785
Contact at Gamescom
Daniel Piqueras
+34 645 620 771
Sam Sempere
+34 695 504 173
VIDEO GAME: ONE MILITARY CAMP
One Military Camp, a new base building simulator / tycoon game with lots of humor, deep gameplay and no violence in it. It is full of references to classic movies and video games. Our team, Abylight, is an indie studio and publisher based in Barcelona.
Contact
+34 657 485 241
Contact at Gamescom
Eva Gaspar
+34 657 485 241
David Martinez
+34 649 604 009
VIDEO GAME: FRANK AND DRAKE
Indie game studio based in Barcelona, Spain with a penchant for innovative storytelling. They tell their narratives through the lens of multiple art styles like pixel art (STAY), traditional Chinese paintings (Terracotta), and rotoscoping (Frank and Drake).
Catalan Arts Games Booth
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2
Stand F010g - E019g
Contact +34 637 789 752
Contact at Gamescom
Iñaki Díaz
+34 637 789 752
VIDEO GAME: FORGOTTEN FRAGMENTS
Binary Phoenix is an independent game studio formed by Pol Monforte and Marc Pons. We are developing Forgotten Fragments a 2D pixel-art puzzle-platformer.
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2
Stand F010g - E019g
Contact
Contact at Gamescom
Pol Monforte
+34 656 556 956
Marc Pons
VIDEO GAME: SWORD OF THE NECROMANCER: REVENANT
A small development team based in Barcelona, developing our own IPs and looking to expand them. Currently working on Sword of the Necromancer: Revenant, an Adventure/ARPG with a city builder mechanic where you can resurrect your enemies and summon them as allies.
Catalan Arts Games Booth
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2
Stand F010g - E019g
Contact +34 644 430 306
Contact at Gamescom
Victor Pedreño
+34 644 430 306
VIDEO GAME: THE TIME I HAVE LEFT
We are a creative team from Barcelona that strives to inspire others like we were inspired ourselves. We bring our take on what a game can be, say, and mean while trying to create something special that will stick to player’s minds.
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2
Stand F010g - E019g
Contact +34 622 087 049
Contact at Gamescom
Juan Estévez (Yite)
+34 622 087 049
Elías Maidanik
+34 673 402 279
VIDEO GAME: SMOOTS JET SKI
Kaneda Games is a company with over 10 years of experience developing high quality videogames with competitive prices. Smoots Jet Ski is a videogame based on water racing sport. This game shows our IP Smoots which fits perfectly with an arcade game like this.
Contact +31 645 382 785
Contact at Gamescom
Jordi Arnal
+34 667 446 344
VIDEO GAME: CL M
Mango Protocol has been crafting narrativedriven games since 2013. The studio is currently working on CLeM, a mystery puzzlevania adventure for consoles and PCs to be released on 2023.
Catalan Arts Games Booth
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2
Stand F010g - E019g
Contact
Contact at Gamescom
Javier Gálvez
+34 650 314 818
VIDEO GAME: WORLDLESS
Noname Studios aims to create high action, visually impactful games with fantastic art, able to connect with players and bring them fresh and unforgettable emotional experiences.
Worldless is a 2D metroidvania with fluid animations and a turn based combat.
Catalan Arts Games Booth
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2
Stand F010g - E019g
Contact
+34 644 519 826
Contact at Gamescom
David Sanchez
+34 644 519 826
Carlos Moreno
+34 690 788 382
VIDEO GAME: THE OLD MAN AND HIS CAT
Mission: To entertain and shock players by focusing on unconventional gameplay mechanics and aesthetics. Vision: We pursue new challenges in the multiplayer gaming world. What we do: We develop our games and offer porting/publishing services to other studios.
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2
Stand F010g - E019g
Contact +34 656 414 870
Contact at Gamescom
Josep Maria Pedros
+34 656 414 870
VIDEO GAME: THOSE WHO CAME: HEALING SOLARUS
We believe that videogames have the power to generate positive energy! You must survive, discover, act and heal your new planet in Those Who Came: Healing Solarus, our cooperative (1 to 4) adventure game with RPG components. It is about healing instead of killing!
VIDEO GAME: UGLY
We are a creative team from Barcelona that strives to inspire others like we were inspired ourselves. We bring our take on what a game can be, say, and mean while trying to create something special that will stick to player’s minds.
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2 Stand F010g - E019g
Contact +34 607 686 153
Contact at Gamescom
Gerard Singuerlin +34 677 661 546
Francesc Porta +34 660 575 239
VIDEO GAME: CRIMSON TALE
Thruster Games, a Barcelona-based Indie studio, creates entertaining gaming experiences with an open, transparent team dedicated to development. In Crimson Tale, Elizabeth, a vampire, alters the present by changing the actions of the dead in their final moments.
Contact +34 617 170 451
Contact at Gamescom
Sergio Murillo
+34 617 170 451
VIDEO GAME: RAILGODS OF HYSTERRA
Mission: To entertain and shock players by focusing on unconventional gameplay mechanics and aesthetics. Vision: We pursue new challenges in the multiplayer gaming world.
What we do: We develop our games and offer porting/publishing services to other studios.
Contact +31 645 382 785
Contact at Gamescom Saverio Caporusso +34 697 947 991
VIDEO GAME: KOA AND THE FIVE PIRATES OF MARA
Undercoders is an independent videogame development studio located in Barcelona, founded in 2005. Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara, our latest title, is a platforming adventure set in the world of Summer in Mara!
Catalan Arts Games Booth
Indie Arena Booth Halle 10.2
Stand F010g - E019g
Contact +34 934 187 353
Contact at Gamescom
David Jaumandreu
+34 616 870 330
Àngel Beltran
+34 676 984 818
Indie
VIDEO GAME FAIR
IndieDevDay is the largest video game fair in Spain (organized in Barcelona), where more than 100 development studios come together to show their projects to all kinds of audiences and meet more than 40 investors and publishers from the industry.
Contact +34 639 934 464
Contact at Gamescom
Laura Gonzalez
+34 665 985 125
Luis Daniel Santigosa
Date: Tuesday August 22nd 3pm
Location: Devcom congress. Köln Messe
A look into different initiatives that made the Barcelona indie scene bloom and caught the attention of international publishers and big companies. Two example are: IndieDevDay, the biggest indie event in Spain that keeps growing exponentially or GameBCN, a mainly public funded incubation program that was born like a local initiative and has become an international referent. Both will take part of this panel, being Joan Francesc Bañó, executive director of GAME BCN’s incubator in charge of the moderation + 4 speakers:
Laura Gonzalez, cofounder Indie Dev Day IDD (Barcelona)
Iñaki Diaz, CEO Appnormals (Barcelona)
Target Audiences: indie developers and publishers
Experience Level: Intermediate
Key Take Aways: invest, training, mentoring, internationalisation, incubator, indie, developer, fair, market, financial tools & grants, landing & collaboration opportunities in south Europe (Spain-Barcelona)
The Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC) is a public institution of the Government of Catalonia’s Ministry of Culture that looks after the development and the consolidation of the Catalan creative sectors as an uplift for its professionalization. ICEC advises and accompanies Catalan companies in their development process in several sectors such as: music, performing arts, visual arts, audiovisual, books and digital culture. It offers grants and financing tools, as well as services for internationalisation, business and audience development.
Catalan Arts is the brand used by ICEC for the international promotion of Catalan companies. Via ICEC’s network of European offices (Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, London and Paris) we work on a variety of lines of action to connect, mentor and support creative companies in their international journey. To this end, with Catalan Arts we strengthen the presence of Catalan companies and creative works at international fairs and key professional events and offers all kinds of useful materials and resources to professionals.
The Ministry of Culture, through its Innovation and Digital Culture Department, aims to support projects and initiatives that link art and culture with the digital world, working towards cultural exchange, growth, and innovation. We also aim to strenghthen the video games sector in Catalonia, as well as to create and support initiatives that help promote and spread digital culture among Catalonia and its citizens.
Marisol Lopez General Director innovacio.cultura@gencat.cat
CAT
€660 M
(+20% above 2020)
SPAIN
€ 1.281 M
43%
Art 2D and 3D: 20%
Game desing: 8%
2D and 3D animation: 6%
Internaction desing: 4%
Audio and music: 3%
Technical artist: 2%
COMPANY MANAGEMENT
24%
20%
OTHERS 13%
Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC)
ICEC Barcelona
+34 933 162 770 internacional.icec@ gencat.cat
ICEC Berlin
+49 30 551 95 40 berlin.icec@gencat.cat
ICEC Brussels / Bruxelles
+32 2 230 72 21 brussels.icec@gencat.cat
ICEC London
+44 207 842 0853 london.icec@gencat.cat
ICEC Paris
+33 1 43 250 435 paris.icec@gencat.cat
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