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BIC Festival: 부산인디커넥트페스티벌

'부산인디커넥트페스티벌(BIC Festival)'은 매년 부산에서 열리는 글로벌 인디게임 행사입니다. 2015년을 시작으로 올해 9회째를 맞이하는 BIC Festival은 대한민국을 대표하는 인디게임행사로서 성장해 나가고 있습니다.

The Busan Indie Connect Festival (BIC Fest) is a global indie game festival held annually in Busan, South Korea. BIC Fest is organized by indie developers, for indie developers, and our goal is to have the best indie festival in the world!

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BIC 2024

8 August - BICFest | 0 Comments

[previewyoutube=DBzR-4iWbpw;full][/previewyoutube]Global Indie Game Festival for Indie Developers and Gamers!

The Busan Indie Connect Festival (BIC), which started in 2015, is a global indie game event held annually in Busan. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, BIC 2024 will host an offline event from August 16 for three days at Hall 1 of BEXCO's first exhibition hall, and an online festival from August 9 to August 30.

#Record Number of Submissions
BIC continues to break its record for the number of submissions each year, and this year is no exception, with 000 submissions in the General, Rookie, and Connect Pick Divisions, surpassing the 2023 record. Although it's unfortunate that not all the numerous high-quality indie games can be exhibited, the carefully selected indie games will once again highlight the prestige of the BIC Festival.

#Invitation of Previous Award Winners
To celebrate the special 10th anniversary of BIC 2024, previous BIC award-winning games have been invited. Additionally, a parade featuring characters from the award-winning games' IPs will be held.

#Live Indie
To feature as many indie games as possible online, three live studios will be operated within the exhibition hall. Live streaming will continue throughout the three-day offline event and can also be viewed on the Steam event page simultaneously.

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#Slogan
"10G-IN TO YOUR INDIE SPIRIT" is the slogan for BIC 2024. Combining the number '10', representing the 10th anniversary, and the English word 'log-in', it creatively expresses the hope for discovering new indie game spirits and deeply connecting with them through the BIC Festival.

#Key Visual
The key visual symbolizes the vast universe of indie games, called Universe-Indie, with the Indie Spirit captured on the radar, and a login window representing the connection to the BIC Festival. This sequential arrangement depicts the journey of exploring Universe-Indie along with the BIC Festival. The key visual reflects the identity and slogan of the BIC Festival, enhancing the sense of diversity and creativity in indie games.

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BIC Festival 2023: 부산인디커넥트페스티벌 2023

16 August, 2023 - BICFest | 2 Comments

Global Indie Game Festival for Indie Game Developers and Gamers

The Busan Indie Connect Festival, which started in 2015, is a global indie game event held in Busan every year. Celebrating its 9th edition this year, the Busan Indie Connect Festival will take place at BEXCO Exhibition Center Hall 1 in Busan from August 25th to 27th. For the online component, it will be held from August 17th to September 14th.

#Expanding Event Scale with a Professional Exhibition Convention, BEXCO

In a gaming industry that is highly polarized, it has become more important than ever to foster a ladder of growth from startups to small and medium-sized enterprises, creating a sustainable game ecosystem. Indie games, based on fresh ideas and originality, serve as an important foundation for entrepreneurship, and the indie game industry is expanding every year. Reflecting this trend, the BIC Festival continues to increase in scale each year. With this year's edition, the BIC Festival aims to achieve its largest exhibition to date by relocating the event venue to BEXCO, a professional exhibition convention center, expecting to enhance convenience for both developers and gamers while ensuring qualitative growth of the exhibition.

#Non-Competitive Booth Sales for Public and Educational Institutions

The BIC Festival has maintained its original spirit of direct communication between developers and gamers, providing more exhibition opportunities for developers and creating a platform for communication between developers and gamers. In order to provide more exhibition opportunities, this year introduces the "non-competitive booths" for the first time, targeting public and educational institutions, starting with a limited scale to prevent excessive booth setups. Applications are open until June for the A-type booths, which can exhibit up to 8 works, and the B-type booths, which can exhibit up to 12 works. Detailed information can be found on the official website of the BIC Festival (https://bicfest.org/).

#Enhanced Global Promotion Support for Indie Games

For the promotion of domestic indie games, the BIC Festival has been continuously supporting specialized indie game postings for six years since 2018. Additionally, it has been producing indie game-focused content through virtual influencers on platforms like YouTube, which serve as an entry point for the MZ generation, to expand the promotion of indie games. This year, to enhance the global promotion of indie games, the festival plans to recruit English-speaking virtual influencers and create multilingual short-form content. Furthermore, it can be observed that approximately 84% of the exhibited works in the previous BIC Festival were PC-based, indicating a shift of the indie game market from the saturated mobile game market towards the PC game market. To accommodate this trend, the BIC Festival has newly opened the "BIC Curated Page" on Steam this year, diversifying its promotional channels for the growing number of PC-based games.

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