Do you hope to support more regional events going forward? Where might you look to go next? FORMAT is always open to collaborating with more regional events and so long as we feel there’s a mutually beneficial partnership to be had we are always open to working with more exciting brands and industry people. We’re in talks with a lot


of other big industry events at the moment, to explore collaboration options, and hope to be able to share more news in the future.


The event was much different from FORMAT’s


events in the sense that it was more business orientated, with the event focusing a lot on careers, talks and lectures by industry professionals and giving game studios the chance to exhibit their current career opportunities within the Guildford region.


What’s next for FORMAT? Where do I even begin? We’re in the start of our 2023 event season and this year will see some amazing feats from us, including some as of yet unannounced product collaborations. That’s as well as holding bigger events in terms of scale and content, and, most importantly, a small hint of our future outside of Manchester. The whole FORMAT team is ecstatic to reveal what


lies on the horizon. We think the UK games industry events scene will be happy with what’s to come.


From a difficulty standpoint the event was actually


from our side a nice walk in the park, it was weird to be on the exhibitor side of things rather than the organisation side as outside of sourcing the developers needed for the Northern Developers Indie Zone, things were very simple.


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