GDCy - Game Dev Cyprus

📸 Hello GDCy People! 📸 The photos from our September GDCy event are ready! 🔴Check out the full album on our Facebook page 🔴Download high-quality photos from our Google Drive Thanks to everyone who joined us this chilly autumn day! Find yourself in the photos, tag your friends, and see you next time! WE ARE GDCy ❤️

🎥 Hello GDCy People 🎥 We have some EXCITING NEWS! GDCy is officially a Community Partner of Purple Perfect, bringing the legendary The Jacksons to Cyprus! And of course, we have something special for our community: 25% OFF YOUR TICKETS with promo code GDCY25! Featuring original Jackson 5 member Marlon Jackson, the brother of Michael Jackson and a member of The Jacksons, get ready for an evening full of legendary hits, live energy, and some serious nostalgia. 👀 Friday, October 23, 2026 | 20:00 👀 Monte Caputo, Limassol 👀 Tickets from €99 before the GDCy discount The evening will also feature opening performances from Rock FM Cyprus, Sophia Patsalides, former Cyprus representative at Junior Eurovision, and Erika Soteri, finalist of The Voice of Greece. Tickets are already on sale! Get your tickets here ⬅️ See you there, WE ARE GDCy!

🎮 Hello GDCy People! 🎮 JetBrains GameDev Day is back on September 28! Get ready for a full day of technical talks based on real-world game production — covering Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, proprietary engines, CI/CD, debugging, AI workflows, and more. Speakers from AWS, Hytale, Fool’s Theory, Playkot, Cubic Games, Jet Heart Labs, and JetBrains will share practical workflows, production pipelines, and lessons learned from actually building games. You can watch the whole event online for free, but if you’re in Limassol, we have a better idea ⬇️ Join the local watch party at the JetBrains Limassol office — technical content on the big screen, followed by networking, food & drinks, and a chance to hang out in one of the coziest offices in town! ➡️September 28, 12:00–20:00 ➡️JetBrains Limassol Office — Avenue Building, 5th floor The full agenda and speaker details are coming soon. Register for JetBrains GameDev Day ⬅️ See you there WE ARE GDCy

🧡Hello GDCy People! 🧡 September is coming to an end, and that means only one thing — GDCy is here!✅ Meet us this Friday, September 25th at 19:00 at our favorite Gerrard’s Kitchen & Bar for a great crowd, quality networking, a nice selection of cold drinks, and tasty food! Let’s finish September the way we love to do it! 🟠Friday, September 25th 🟠19:00 🟠Gerrard’s Kitchen & Bar See you there WE ARE GDCy!

Hello GDCy People! 👋 WN is almost here, and our friends at Mellow and Chrysostomides Advocates and Legal Consultants are hosting a private breakfast on day two — Whose Game Is It, Anyway? ☕️ Most studios believe they own their game. In practice, ownership is a chain of rights transfers from everyone who ever touched it: the outsourced artist, the composer hired for one track, the programmer who left three years ago. Any broken link in that chain shows up later: at due diligence, at a publishing deal, or in court. Mellow and Chrysostomides Advocates and Legal Consultants (one of the oldest and Tier 1 IP law firms in Cyprus) will walk through how those chains break — with real cases. You'll leave with a practical IP audit checklist you can run against your own studio the same day. 📅 September 18, 09:00 | PlusSea, Agios Tychonas 📌 Register here: https://luma.com/6fphaj9q The space is limited, only 30 seats, approval required.

🦖 Hello GDCy People! 🦖 This October, GDCy is joining Cyprus Comic Con 2026, and we’d love to see our community there! ⚪️ October 2–4 ⚪️ Cyprus State Fair, Nicosia Three days of gaming, cosplay, special guests, artists, tabletop, live music, food, performances and all kinds of wonderfully geeky things — basically, plenty of reasons for the GDCy people to be there. 🎮 And since GDCy × Cyprus Comic Con sounds like a pretty natural match, our community gets special ticket discounts! 🎫 Use GDCY5 for Single Day & Weekend tickets 🎫 Use GDCY10 for Early Access & VIP tickets And yes… CCC specifically invited us to bring our T-Rex energy with us 🦖 So gather your friends, your studio, your favorite cosplay — or just yourself — and come spend the weekend with one of the biggest pop-culture communities on the island. Get your GDCy community tickets here 🖱 See you at Cyprus Comic Con 2026!

Hello GDCy People!  🚀 Ready to level up your monetization?  Web Shop Arena, with a $100,000 prize pool, invites mobile game developers to build their own D2C channel for direct sales to players. 🏆 Every studio has the chance to win up to $5,000 in prizes for completing the challenges. And the 4 teams with the best Web Shops by the finals will win extra prizes — ranging from a cash payout to an ad budget of up to $18,000, plus dedicated support from Emarka. 💡How it works: 4 stages to unlock the full potential of your game's monetization: launch your Web Shop, optimize Pay Station, promote your shop, and set up LiveOps tools. At every stage, you'll get live feedback and hands-on support from Xsolla experts. Open to mobile free-to-play games available on the App Store or Google Play that haven't integrated Xsolla Web Shop yet. Please note that the challenge will be conducted in Russian. Don't miss your chance to make your game even more successful — and win prizes along the way! 👉 Apply by September 30

❗️Hello GDCy People❗️ We have a BIG announcement — something we've been working on for a while. For all studios and solo developers, two questions come up again and again: ❓How do I put together a pitch that publishers take seriously? ❓And how do I get it in front of the right publisher or investor? There's another side to this. Publishers and investors receive hundreds of pitches and spend weeks digging through them to find the few that fit. Together with our partners at Narwhal, we decided to build a bridge between the two. Today we're proud to introduce: THE BRIDGE by GDCy The Bridge is a new platform designed to make finding the right partnership easier for everyone. ✅ For developers: become visible to publishers and investors who are actually looking for projects like yours. ✅ For publishers & investors: receive curated, hand-picked projects matched to your own investment and publishing criteria — instead of digging through an endless inbox. Every submission goes through a review, so the projects publishers see are the ones that are ready to be seen. Building a game and looking for the right partner? Looking for the next project for your portfolio? Welcome to The Bridge. WE ARE GDCy!

Hello GDCy People! Our friends from WN is back in town! WN Conference Cyprus returns to Limassol on September 17–18. Meet developers, publishers, investors, and industry professionals through business meetings, discussions, project showcases, and networking opportunities. Game developers can also join the Developer Showcase and Indie Pitch to present their projects and connect with potential partners.  📍 Limassol, Cyprus 🎟 Tickets (with special discount with GDCy promocode) https://wnhub.io/event-info/cyprus26#tickets Two days of conversations that move game business forward.

📸 Hello GDCy People! 📸 The photos from our August GDCy event are ready! 🔴Check out the full album on our Facebook page 🔴Download high-quality photos from our Google Drive Thanks to everyone who joined us and made the evening so much fun! Find yourself in the photos, tag your friends, and see you next time! WE ARE GDCy! ❤️

🍺 Hello GDCy People 🍺 The Craft Beer Festival is almost here! Bring 3 T-shirts you no longer need and get a glass of beer you definitely DO need! This time: ⚫️ 36 unique beers on tap ⚫️ Latest releases from 7 craft breweries + guest taps from Europe ⚫️ Live music ⚫️ Competitions, prizes & a lottery And don’t forget your pirate look! 🏴‍☠️ Full pirate, a little pirate, or just an eye patch — you decide. ⚫️ September 4, 18:00, The Warehouse, Limassol See you there! 🏴‍☠️

💭Hello GDCy People! 💭 Just a couple of hours left until we meet at Gerrard’s Kitchen & Bar! 🎮 We’re waiting for you from 19:00 for some proper GDCy networking, complimentary food & drinks, and our usual Cyprus vibes! 🌴 And to everyone already flying back from Gamescom — you can STILL make it! Straight from Gamescom networking to GDCy networking — sounds like a perfect Friday to us. See you in a few hours, WE ARE GDCy! ❤️

Day one at gamescom dev - ✅🔥 Steady traffic at the booth all day. The most common question is some version of "there's a game industry in Cyprus?" and the follow-up is usually surprise at how large it is. The report has done most of the work: almost everyone who picks it up asks for a printed copy. And a few people said it is the first real data they have ever seen on the region. Unlimit and Mellow are on the booth with us and have supported this delegation from the start. Invest Cyprus is backing our presence here this week, too. Thank you to all three of you 🤝 ➡️ Tomorrow, August 25: our General Manager Andrey Ivashentsev speaks at 13:45 on Stage 5, Confex Level 2 with the talk "The Last White Spot in EU Game Dev: How Cyprus Quietly Built 400+ Studios". ➡️ Cyprus Nights in Cologne opens in the evening. We are overbooked and registration is closed, but a lot of very good companies are coming and we are looking forward to hosting them! We are at booth B03 until then and from Wednesday you will find us at the Games from Cyprus country pavilion in Hall 3.2! #gamescom #gamescomdev #cyprus #gamedev

💭Hello GDCy People! 💭 August is moving fast, and it’s time for another GDCy gathering! Since we had such a great time at Gerrard’s Kitchen & Bar last month, we thought… why not do it ONE MORE TIME? While a big part of the game industry will be busy networking at gamescom, the rest of us will be doing exactly the same thing — just with a little more Cyprus in the mix. Join us on August 28th for our usual GDCy vibes: ⚪️The best GameDev crowd and quality networking ⚪️Complimentary food ⚪️Complimentary drinks ⚪️A relaxed Cyprus summer atmosphere Different location from gamescom — same industry, same conversations, same networking mission. And maybe slightly fewer kilometers walked between meetings 😄 ⚪️Friday, August 28th ⚪️19:00 ⚪️Gerrard’s Kitchen & Bar See you there WE ARE GDCy! 🙊

THE BEER LINEUP 🍒 GOLEM Brewhouse — regular favorites + new Cherry Sour + one SECRET release 🍅 Crossline Brewery — new-recipe IPA + Tomato Gose 🍍 Radical Way — new NEIPA + Fruit Sour 🍺 Miliou Brewery — making their Limassol debut with a Weisse and several IPAs 🍅 EVIVA — Tomato Gose + European guest beers 🌶 OCTOPUS Brewery — Spicy Chili Raspberry Sour And for the first time ever, the festival will have a dedicated European guest tap! 🇭🇺 Mad Scientist from Budapest is coming with four beers: 🍺 DDH Madhouse — DDH IPA 🌊 Surf Pop Star — Gluten-Free West Coast IPA 🪵 Funk Vault — aged sour with apricot, walnuts, cocoa & vanilla 🍇 Funk 2025 — Foeder-Aged American Farmhouse Ale That’s a lot to try in one evening… luckily, half-glasses exist ❤️ See you there! 🏴‍☠️

🖱 Hello GDCy People! 🖱 Our friends from Craft Beer Festival are back — and this time they’re going full PIRATE MODE! ⚫ September 4 ⚫ The Warehouse, Limassol More than 25 taps will bring together new seasonal releases from Cyprus craft breweries, plus some special guests from Europe. How it works: ⚫ Festival glass at the entrance — €5 ⚫ Full glass of beer — €6 ⚫ Half glass of beer — €3, so you can taste more and (hopefully) still remember your favorites And beer is only part of the plan: 🏴‍☠️ Pirate costumes, games & competitions 🍔 Food from Hungry Angry + more other tasty options 🥩 Jerky from GiraBio 🎸 Rock music powered by ROCK FM ❄️ And, very importantly for September in Cyprus — AIR CONDITIONING! No need to go full Jack Sparrow, but a little pirate spirit is highly encouraged 🏴‍☠️ See you on September 4 at The Warehouse! 🍻🏴‍☠️

Hello, GDCy People! 🎆 GameDev Women Cyprus is back for its second Annual Conference on October 9! Women of all roles and backgrounds in gamedev are welcome to connect, reflect, enjoy an immersive experience, and share meaningful conversations. This year's edition explores one bold question: Are Video Games Part of Modern Art? 🎮 The GameDev Women Cyprus team don't offer ready-made answers — they're creating a space to shape that answer together, inside one of Cyprus's most unique contemporary art venues. ✨ What to expect: • Fireside Debate where game development meets contemporary art • Interactive Panel with women shaping every corner of the games industry • Immersive Experience with art, music, curated activities and unforgettable moments • Community & Connections with remarkable women 🎙️ Interested in speaking? Apply to become a panelist when registering. Know someone in the industry who'd love this? Invite your friends and colleagues. 🗓️ October 9, 16:30 - 22:00 📍 Mikri Salamina Art Space, Limassol, Cyprus Free entry — registration required. Spots are limited. ▫️Check the full program and register▫️ Can't wait for October? Join the channel GameDev Women Cyprus to connect with the community, get news, speaker reveals and behind-the-scenes updates. See you there!

Hello, GDCy People! 🎆 GameDev Women Cyprus is back for its second annual conference on October 9! Women of all roles and backgrounds in gamedev are welcome to connect, reflect, enjoy an immersive experience, and share meaningful conversations. This year's edition explores one bold question: Are Video Games Part of Modern Art? 🎮 The GameDev Women Cyprus team don't offer ready-made answers — they're creating a space to shape that answer together, inside one of Cyprus's most unique contemporary art venues. ✨ What to expect: • Fireside Debate where game development meets contemporary art • Interactive Panel with women shaping every corner of the games industry • Immersive Experience with art, music, curated activities and unforgettable moments • Community & Connections with remarkable women 🎙️ Interested in speaking? Apply to become a panelist when registering. Know someone in the industry who'd love this? Invite your friends and colleagues. 🗓️ October 9, 16:30 - 22:00 📍 Mikri Salamina Art Space, Limassol, Cyprus Free entry — registration required. Spots are limited. ▫️Check the full program and register▫️ Can't wait for October? Join the channel GameDev Women Cyprus to connect with the community, get news, speaker reveals and behind-the-scenes updates. See you there!

🇨🇾The Cyprus Video Game Industry Report 2025 is here. An island of one million people. 415 game companies. Over €3.2 billion earned from games in 2025. Per head of population, no country in the world has more game companies, more games revenue or more game installs than Cyprus. But this had never been counted. Pulling all the data together was one of our main goals for this year, and today we can finally say it's done.🎉 Thank you to everyone who shared their numbers, wrote for it, checked our maths, supported us through their memberships and partnerships, and answered yet another email or message from us. 📎🔥72 pages, nine sections, free to read: https://cygma.eu/cyprus-video-game-industry-report-2025/ 📚Printed copies at gamescom: CYGMA stand B-03, Confex, 24-25 Aug, and the Games from Cyprus pavilion, Hall 03.2 F-030G, 26-28 Aug.

First big report from CYGMA is here!