XDS (External Development Summit) in Vancouver is the industry’s dedicated event for outsourcing and co-development — the ideal venue for studios like Kevuru Games to connect with publishers seeking reliable external art and development partners.
Kevuru Games team attended the summit to welcome all professionals willing to collaborate, exchange ideas, and find ways to cooperate. The event took place from September 6 to 8, 2023. This year, Kevuru Games took part as a Silver Summit sponsor.
About the External Development Summit in Vancouver
The External Development Summit (XDS) is a major and, in some ways, a unique annual event in the games industry. XDS aims to cultivate and promote external development, focusing on essential aspects such as art, animation, audio, software engineering, quality assurance (QA), and localization. Besides, the XDS provides an ideal environment for networking, learning, and making valuable contacts.
B2B networking is vital to XDS and facilitates contact between like-minded professionals. Furthermore, with its international presence, XDS provides an opportunity to forge strategic partnerships and discover new perspectives.
The mission of XDS is to inspire collaboration and emphasize the power of teamwork and synergy within the games industry. Through panel discussions, roundtables, and collaboration workshops, attendees engage in constructive dialogue, share ideas, and cultivate partnerships that foster innovation and advance the industry.
What actually sets the External Development Summit apart from other game industry events is how narrow its focus stays. Most gaming conferences cover marketing, publishing deals, or player-facing trends. XDS doesn’t. It’s built specifically around outsourcing and external development: art, animation, audio, engineering, QA, localization, the disciplines studios actually hire partners for.
That makes it less of a general industry mixer and more of a working game outsourcing conference in Vancouver, where the people in the room are there to find or vet a development partner, not just catch up on news. For a game development outsourcing studio built around those exact disciplines, that’s not a coincidental fit. It’s the reason Kevuru Games shows up at XDS year after year rather than at a broader industry event. To read about the previous edition of the event, check our story about XDS 2022.
Kevuru Games Team Participation in the Event
We always participate in events where real fans and game industry professionals come together. Our outsourcing team, which develops games for PCs and mobile devices, attended the event. Our team consists of more than 300 people, including game designers, artists, programmers, animators, and managers.
We have been in the industry for over 13 years, and have worked with famous publishers such as Epic Games, Fomo Games, Bandai Namco, LucasFilm, Eternal Horizons, FireHoseGames, etc. Contact us if you have any ideas for cooperation.
