Penny Arcade has announced the creation of a new Penny Arcade Expo event, PAX Dev. The show will take place from August 24 to August 25 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. The event will allow developers the chance to meet and talk with one another about game development, with no exhibition, no fans, and no press.
“The idea started with friends in the game dev community asking us to host an event where they could really focus on exchanging ideas without any distractions,” said Robert Khoo of Penny Arcade. “There are events that are great for signing your next deal or promoting your current project, but that’s not PAX Dev. We’re 100 percent focused on the craft of game development.”
The August timeslot places PAX six months after the Game Developers Conference event, which usually operates in March. This gives developers another event to meet-and-greet and falls after the announcement of new products at E3 in June. The event also includes creators of table-top and card games.
“There is this odd distinction where some shows are just for video games or just table top and collectable cards or just board game. But we’ve all seen how ideas in one segment can feed and influence innovation in another part of the game industry. Having representatives from all of the extended game development family can only make PAX Dev stronger,”said Khoo.
Early registration is $249, with at-door pricing being $329. PAX expects to sell 750 tickets to the event. Anyone interested in running a panel at the event can submit here.
Any developers looking forward to the new event?
