General Conference

In an era of increasingly complex pipelines and distributed teams, AI isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a competitive advantage This session explores how External Development Managers and Directors can harness AI tools to streamline vendor collaboratio......

Over the past decade, the appetite from traditionally underrepresented players to see characters like them in the games they play has grown As studios and their Ex Dev partners look to meet this need by adapting this diverse reality into their games,......

Whether you're a large publisher working with multiple external partners or a small studio offering specialized development services, effectively evaluating, engaging, and managing external development is both an art and a scienceIn this practica......

In an industry where large-scale co-development is often entrusted to even larger studios, we’re asking a simple but disruptive question: Can a carefully coordinated collective of small, expert studios actually do it better This Table Topic challen......

The topic for discussion is external development, specifically through staff augmentation What is Staff Augmentation and how can it be used for external development needs on a variety of different sized projects Let’s take a chance to talk to all p......

One of Hollywood’s biggest models - such as the Marvel model - focuses on large, IP-centric creative teams at the core, surrounded by specialized units that help deploy content across formats and marketsThis structure is now mirrored in the game in......

8:00am - 6:00pm Registration & Information 8:00am - 6:00pm XDS Connect Zone 8:00am - 6:00pm The Hub 8:00am - 6:00pm Original Force Booster Bar 8:00am - 6:00pm Globant Café 8:00am - 6:00pm NeoBards Tea Station 8:00am - 6:00p......

Enjoy a light morning snack and some coffee in The Hub, brought to you by Indomi Studio LLC......

Join us alongside Joe Nickolls at the XDS Main Stage to open the second day of the External Development Summit!......

Enjoy a hot cup of tea, brought to you by Neobards......

Leanne has been making video games for over 20 years Starting in Indie development in the UK working on titles such as Scrabble, Risk and Magic the Gathering After that she worked at a 3rd party publishing division in Japan for a couple of years, the......

In the Video Game Development Industry, we all became familiar with the phrase "Survive to 2025" being passed around through 2023 and 2024 This was followed by an arduous first half of the year for many in 2025 And now posing the question through th......