Upcoming Events

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    Cafés DEI

    ⏰ March 27th, 10:30am
    📍 Online
    🏭 La Guilde
    🎤 French

    Online discussion forum for those interested in DEI in the games industry. This March edition will be about neuroinclusivity.

    Info & Signup

  • IVGD Indie Game Playtest - Spring 2025

    ⏰ March 27th, 6pm-9pm
    📍 Dawson College
    🏭 IVGD

    Come play indie games at the next playtest by the Independent Video Game Design program!!

    Register your game for the playtest: https://forms.gle/DdTCydgEfgxYFjcUA

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  • 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

  • Game Dev Drinks at Meltdown

    ⏰ Every Tuesday, 6:00pm (no event Dec 31)
    📍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 — 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, 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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