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Team Centrifuge at EGX – ready to give the talk!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We recently went to EGX – the UK’s biggest games event and we had a very productive time! It wasn’t all fun and games as our team, consisting of Nathan and Berni – the company founders – and Sarah – who kindly volunteers as our community manager – gave a talk at the show.<\/p>\n

For the first time this year there was an EGX Fringe Theatre with a schedule “consisting entirely of panel sessions proposed and delivered by the EGX community”. We proposed a session called: “Lessons from game Development – If you build it they will come. (Spoiler: They won’t)”
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\nThe blurb of it was: “Join the team from Centrifuge (makers of Interference and other casual games) as they discuss their gamedev journey over the last few years and share the incorrect assumptions and mistakes that they made along the way. Featuring panellists Nathan, Berni and Sarah.”<\/p>\n

We were pretty pleased when it was accepted and we were given a slot on The Fringe stage at 2pm on the first day of the show. We didn’t expect many people to come as it was the first day and no-one really knows who we are. Imagine our surprise as we were setting up the AV for the presentation – the room started to fill up. Then a class of school children came in with their teachers and there was standing room only!<\/p>\n

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Where did all these people come from?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We really enjoyed talking about our game development journey so far and framed the session as:\u00a0 Assumption<\/strong> followed by\u00a0Reality<\/strong> then\u00a0Advice<\/strong>.
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Assumption<\/b>: We\u2019ve had an interesting idea, and made a game. Let\u2019s send out a press release, and people will talk about it<\/p>\n

Reality<\/b>: You can contact the big sites, but you\u2019re probably not going to be as interesting as the other press releases they receive<\/p>\n

Advice<\/b>: Start small<\/p>\n