a two-day conference about how we make games and why we make them

The goal of No Show Conference is to give game industry professionals a space to explore our skillsets, our motivations, and our limits as developers.

July 14-15, 2012 at MIT's Stratton Center, Cambridge MA. Follow @noshowconf on Twitter for updates.

Coming in from out of town? Fly to Logan Airport and stay at Le Meridien Cambridge-MIT or the Kendall Hotel.

Want to show off your game in the Demo Hall? Apply here. Want to volunteer? Apply here. Interested in sponsoring? Email us.

The Rules:

• Held on a weekend – so you can save your vacation time for an actual vacation
• Low admission fee – so you can keep your money in your game/life/pocket
• No panels – so your time isn’t wasted listening to strangers agree with each other

The Event:

• Presentations – a single track of talks throughout the weekend covering all aspects of game development, from up in the clouds to under the microscope
• Demo Hall – a room full of developers presenting their games, all of which you can actually play right there
• Game Jam – get inspired by a talk? go make a prototype now, or just visit to absorb the energy

The Tickets:

• All-Access Pass – does what it says on the tin; gets you into the Game Jam, the Demo Hall, and all of the Presentations
• Game Jam Pass – our alternative to a “student pass” since half the broke people we know aren’t students; network in the Demo Hall, make a game over the weekend, and show it off in the conference’s closing keynote post-mortem