Full Indie Summit 2025

 What is Full Indie and the Full Indie Summit?

Founded in 2010, Full Indie is a Vancouver-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting our local game dev community. We aim to provide independent game creators with opportunities to demo their games, network with other indies, and learn from their community.

The Full Indie Summit is a day-long event that has attracted hundreds of attendees from Greater Vancouver, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. Past talks have covered the processes behind indie favourites such as Celeste, Outer Wilds, and Boyfriend Dungeon, and even featured guests like Microsoft who've shared their insights that also pertain to the indie community.

https://www.fullindie.com/

Full Indie Summit

The 2025 Summit will take place on Saturday, September 13th Vancouver Playhouse. Doors will be open at 9:00 AM, and the main event will run from 9:30AM to 5:30PM, followed by an afterparty that runs until 10pm which includes more food, mingling, and live music. Ten speakers will take the stage to give talks on various game developement disciplines, from design to narrative to localization, and more.

Lunch will be provided to all attendees, including vegan and gluten-free options. Dinner will also be provided to those who purchase the afterparty ticket.

What's Included

• The conference-only ticket tier will have access to all 10 talks from 9:00am to 5:30pm along with lunch provided.
• The afterparty ticket tier will have access to the full event from 9:00am to 10:00pm, with both lunch and dinner provided, and live music. Drinks will be available for purchase at the afterparty.

Location

The event will take place at the Vancouver Playhouse. The venue is located 2 blocks west of Stadium-Chinatown Skytrain station, and has 10 bike rack spots to the left of the main entrance on the corner of Hamilton St and Dunsmuir St. For all other information on accessibility including car parking and navigation within the venue, please visit this link and scroll down to "Vancouver Playhouse".

Schedule

09:00 Doors open

09:30 CONFERENCE START
Included with the Summit Ticket

• Jordann Audet 
  Playing with Perspective: The Power of Asymmetry
  
  
• Max Greenall 
  Ambitious Design Done on Time

10:45 - 11:00 Break: 15 Min

• Alex Carey 
  Games Accessibility 201: Death to Settings, Long Live Design
• Matheus Vilano 
  Developer Experience: The UX of Development Tools

12:00 - 13:45 Catered Lunch (In the Lobby)

• Gordon McGladdery 
  Farm to Table: Stealing from Permaculture to Build Resilient Studios
  
  
• Marina Ryan 
  Adaptive Music Design in Games
  
  
• Thomas Paterson 
  D.O.T. Defence: Making a Game That Plays Itself!

15:15 - 15:30 Break 15 Min

• Audrey Storey
  Branching Out with L-Systems: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Gibberish
  
  
• Jim Munroe, Justin Smith, Isadora Sophia, Daniel Mullins
  That’s My Jam: Understanding the Value of Gamejams

17:00 CONFERENCE ENDS

17:00 AFTER PARTY START
Included with Summit and Afterparty Ticket
Lobby for demoing and networking will be available for the entire duration of the after-party.

17:00 - 18:00 Catered Dinner (in the Lobby)

18:00 - 18:45 Concert: dannyBstyle Band 
Featuring: Danny Baranowsky

22:00 AFTER PARTY ENDS

Pre-order your Summit T-Shirts through this link!