The war in Ukraine continues, many games industry professionals (and not only) are affected because of this. EGDF calls the EU and its member states to invest in a stable and predictable operating environment for game developer studios. Please find below actions that local game developer studios and national associations are taking to help Ukraine. Keep on supporting!
- International:
- Summary of the actions international publishers are taking (in Polish): https://www.gry-online.pl/newsroom/wojna-na-ukrainie-reakcje-deweloperow-oraz-organizacji-gamingowyc/zb215c0
- Austria:
- Pioneers Of Game Development in Austria (PGDA) organised a call to raise awareness on the situation in Ukraine among local game developer community: https://pgda.at/2022/03/16/pgda-monthly-call-gamedevs-united-helping-ukraine/
- PGDA created also a dedicated Discord channel to coordinate local initiatives: 🇺🇦-support-ukraine (discord.com)
- Croatia:
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- PISMO (The public game development incubator) in Croatia offers relocation, financial and organizational assistance to studios who need to relocate due to the war: https://inkubator-pismo.eu/usluge.php
- Finland:
- Neogames rallied Finnish game developer studios to give donations for charities supporting Ukraine: https://neogames.fi/weekly-news-10-22/
- France:
- The French Video Game Trade Association (SNJV) maps workspaces for Ukrainian game developers so that you can keep on crafting your games away from home, in a friendly and safe environment: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScT7aUtw9kwKDiU4JRFbZMAciWhhrSeC4CnYb5hNYL3IQTjgQ/viewform
- Germany:
- GAME is running a discord channel from where they collecting information on this google sheet for anyone looking for help https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10MtLtT4Wl8gn0324DJ8WLUACIV0gvZjYGO7_1KwCmfE/edit#gid=0
- Lithuania:
- Lithuanian Gamedev Association (LZKA) and other partners in Lithuania are maintaining this page and a Telegram chat to help Ukrainians find job or business opportunities in Lithuania: https://gamedev.camp/ukraine
- Poland
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- The list of Polish activities: https://polskigamedev.pl/gamedev-wspiera-ukraine-news-aktualizowany/
- Polish companies are also active in at least these activities: https://www.humblebundle.com/stand-with-ukraine-bundle;
https://thinkable-muscari-ec5.notion.site/Help4Ukraine-List-of-Ukrainian-Game-Developers-looking-for-jobs-f0cd5896ba174e63a0b3ad6ce1a15e6b
https://www.facebook.com/tetiana.evdokimenko/posts/pfbid02mYjHKpRhnLQUFCPBN6qwuZB7HiBjPkwcFT3x2CnZ2JbDUFaYmUYGGD7Gz3kwxKbJl
- Romania
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- Romanian Game Developer Association (RGDA) maintaining this Google Sheet to help Ukrainians find job or business opportunities in Romania, the document is shared with the Romanian studios: Date refugiati – Google Sheets
- Slovakia
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- Slovak Game Developer Association (SGDA) supported a game jam making stories of Putin’s war in Ukraine visibile: https://www.playforukraine.eu/en/play-for-ukraine-en/
- Spain
- AEVI rallies local game developer community to give donations for a charity supporting Ukraine: https://colabora.ayudaenaccion.org/espana/es/emergencia-ucrania-ae
- Sweden:
- Dataspelbranchen helps Ukrainian game devleopers to find sanctuary in Sweden. Several of our cluster and incubator members can offer workplaces (internet, software, computers, etc.) to Ukrainian game developers who have fled, as well as shelter for them and their families: https://dataspelsbranschen.se/nyheter/2022/3/7/sweden-offers-sanctuary-for-game-developers-fleeing-ukraine
- Switzerland:
- Swiss Game Developer Association (SGDA) support Ukrainian gamedevs in finding a free workspace to continue your game development projects and introduction to the Swiss game developer community: https://www.sgda.ch/for-game-developers-from-ukraine/
- UK
- TIGA rallies local game developer community to give donations for charities supporting Ukraine: https://tiga.org/news/how-can-the-video-games-industry-help-ukraine
- UKIE rallies local game developer community to give donations for charities supporting Ukraine: https://ukie.org.uk/news/2022/03/ukraine-crisis-3-ways-the-uk-games-industry-can-help
- Ukraine: A centralized hub for helping Ukrainian gamedevs: https://bit.ly/HelpUkrainianGamedev
- This initiative is organized by
- InGame Job https://boost.ingamejob.com/en/
- Values Value https://valuesvalue.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/valuesvalue
- Games Gathering https://ggconference.com/en/ or https://www.facebook.com/GamesGathering/
- DevGAMM: https://devgamm.com or https://www.facebook.com/devgamm/
- GDBAY: https://gdbay.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/gdbaycom/
- This initiative is organized by