Everything about games in the Seattle area. Video games, tabletop games, story games, stuff like that. Add what you know!
Upcoming related events:
Check out upcoming events on the IGDA Seattle calendar.
Industry events on the HouseOgames site.
Video games by local designers.
(We can grab games by the people in the "indie game developers in Seattle" section.
Tabletop (and other afk) games by local designers.
- Control-Alt-Hack - http://www.controlalthack.com/
Video game companies in/around Seattle:
- 17-bit
- 4gency
- 5th Cell (Vancouver)
- A Thinking Ape
- Adventure Works
- Airtight Games (Gone)
- alpha six productions
- Amazing Society
- Archive Entertainment
- Astrogun (might not really be seattle-based)
- AtomJack
- AvR Gaming
- Bay 12 Games
- Beep Industries
- Belief Engine
- Black Howler Studios
- Bootsnake Games
- Brushfire Games
- Camouflaj
- Carbon Games
- Cardboard Sled
- Cascade Game Foundry
- Cherry Picked Games
- Cicatriz
- Corey Kay
- Detonator Games
- Digital Eel
- DoubleBear Productions
- Drizzly Bear
- Ember Entertainment
- Exato Games
- Fat Loot Games (Gone)
- Fixer Studios
- FlowPlay
- Fuel Cell Games
- Fun Bits (Gone)
- Gastronaut Studios
- Giant Army
- Goblinworks
- Harebrained Schemes
- Heart Shaped Games
- HipSoft
- Indreams Studios
- Ice Water Games
- Jason Meisel
- Koala Shot
- Litesprite
- Logan Fieth
- Lulu Blue
- Lunar Ray Games
- Massively Fun
- Mighty Studios
- Mika Mobile
- Moonlight Press
- Refract Studios
- Richard Hofmeier
- Riveting Games
- Robocognito
- Rumor Games
- Runic Games
- Serellan
- Shadegrown Games
- Shogun3d
- Skull Theatre
- Something Wicked
- Sparsevector
- Spiderweb Software
- Spotted Zebra
- Spry Fox
- Stone Monkey Studios – working on City Quest
- Stellar Games
- Strange Loop Games
- Studio IP
- Studio Pepwuper
- Sunleaf Studios
- Samantha Kalman / Studio Organik
- Subutai
- Superb Lizard
- SwiftCreek Games
- TinkerHouse Games
- Tiny Build
- TooDX
- Torpex Games
- Ty Taylor – The Bridge
- U4iA
- Uber Entertainment
- Undead Labs
- Very Very Spaceship
- WildTangent
- Wulf Design Studios
- Zachtion
- Zachtronics
- Zhurosoft
- Zipline Games
- Zombie Studios
Large game development companies:
- Double Down Interactive
- Valve
- PopCap
- Jawfish Games
- Her Interactive
- Big Fish Games
- Microsoft
- Nintendo
- Bungie
- Arena Net
- Sucker Punch Productions
-
Snowblind Studios
Other lists of Seattle-based video game companies:
- http://gamejobhunter.com/blog/local-video-game-companies-seattle/
- http://houseogames.com/pnw_indie_map/
- http://www.seattleindies.org/links/
Video game hardware companies based in Seattle:
- Evolution Controllers
- VRcade
- Technical Illusions. Creating castAR, glasses that act as a projected augmented reality system.
- Nintendo of America
- Microsoft
Annual games events:
- Seattle Indies Expo
- Seattle Retro Gaming Expo
- PAX Prime: Penny Arcade Expo
Learn to develop video games:
- Studio Pepwuper founder offers a Unity course through Skillshare
- Valve Pipeline – high school student program
Games-related meetups
- Unity 3d User Group
- Seattle Javascript Game Development
- Seattle Games Cooperative
- Story Games Seattle
- Seattle Game Developers
- Seattle Indie Comic and Game artists
- Double Jump! comics, animation, and game art drawing group.
- South Sound Game Developers
- Seattle Android Developers
- Seattle chapter of Women In Games Interntational
groups / associations:
- seattleindies.org
- Seattle chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
- Washington Interactive Network
Game dev accelerators/incubators:
- HouseOgames – they pay rent for your game dev team to live in a house. weird right?
Game shops.
Retro video game shops:
- pink gorilla
- game gurus
Where to find arcade machines in Seattle:
- Add a Ball
- Gameworks
- John John's Game Room
- Seattle Pinball Museum
- Shortys
- Unicorn/Narwhal
- Sureshot
Relevant articles:
- Northeastern Univ. CEO: ‘Gaming in Seattle is a submarine industry’
- Seattle gamers jam out with NASA
- How humans took back the video game
-
Shopping, sword-fighting and silliness: Meet the first-ever WIN Reactor graduates
Other cool related stuff:
- seattle interactive media museum: https://www.facebook.com/thesimm.org
- videos from Washington Interactive Network events
Regional:
iamagamer.ca // recent game jam focused on making games with female protagonists
