Upcoming Events

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    Dev Team Coffee

    ⏰ April 6th, 10:00am-2:00pm
    📍 Le Trèfle Verdun
    🏭 DevTeamDrink

    Students, pros, let's share a coffee, talk about gamedev and cry/laugh about our god damn industry!!

    Info & Signup

  • Dev Team Drink April

    ⏰ April 17th, 6:30pm
    📍 Le Trèfle Verdun
    🏭 DevTeamDrink

    Students, pros, let's share a drink, talk about gamedev and cry/laugh about our industry!

    Info & Signup

  • Scientific Game Jam

    ⏰ April 18th - April 20th
    📍 Indie Asylum
    🏭 Numana

    Game jam where each team will be organized around a researcher or a PhD student who will have the important task of presenting their research work, helping the team understand it, and assisting in popularizing a part of it through the game that will be produced.

    Info & Signup

  • Cowork & Chill

    ⏰ April 21st, 1PM - 4PM
    📍 Koujina Café
    🏭 Montreal Game Dev Meetup (MGDM)

    Come get some work done on your project! You can ask questions if you are stuck or bring your partners along during this coworking session.

    Event Info

  • Boardgames! (Playtest)

    ⏰ April 27th, 5:15 PM – 8:30 PM
    📍 LE CENTRAL
    🏭 Montreal Game Dev Meetup (MGDM)

    Let's hang and play physical games.
    If you are make 'em, bring 'em for playtest, feedback, or simply for a fun time and good memories!

    Event Info

  • Game Dev Drinks at Meltdown

    ⏰ Every Tuesday, 6:00pm
    📍Meltdown Montreal
    🏭 Montréal Game Development Meetup Group

    Hang out with other game developers in the Greater Montreal Area, whether you're a veteran developer, indie dev, or only touched a game engine for the first time yesterday.

    Info
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    Game Dev Fridays at ECTO

    ⏰Fridays 9am-5pm
    📍 ECTO, coworking cooperatif
    🏭Écran Partagé

    Every Friday, join us at ECTO coworking space to develop games together. Work on your projects, discuss, find new colleagues.

    Info & Signup

  • Monthly Game Jam

    ⏰ Monthly
    📍 Online
    🏭 Montreal Game Development Meetup Group

    Each month will be a different game jam in which we'll meet on discord at the end of the month on a Friday, and the following Tuesday for our Meltdown events the teams will present their games to the group!

    Info & Signup

Game Dev MTL is a group of individuals working in the Montreal games industry who have two missions:

  1. to offer a dedicated centralized place for finding all the local Montreal games industry events

  2. to create new and recurring events which bring the community together and encourage knowledge-sharing between all Montreal game developers

Past Events

We’ve featured tons of events on our website so far, too many to count! Here are some of the past organizers and the kinds of events they’ve run:

ADVUM — game jams
Autodesk — talks
Dawson College Independent Video Game Design Program — playtests
DevTeamDrink / DevTeamCoffee — social events
Écran Partagé — game presentations, social events
l’Extension Vidéoludique — talks, social events
Game Dev Drink Up MTL — social events
Game Dev MTL — talks, social events, roundtables
Gamerella — game jam, workshops
Indie Asylum — talks, social events
La Guilde — talks, workshops, DEI events, social events, dev support programs, marketing programs
Pixelles — workshops, social events
Montréal Game Development Meetup Group — social events, playtests
XP Gaming — conferences

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