Vote for your favourite game at the Big Indie Zone Audience Choice Award sponsored by Jam City at Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2025
- The Big Indie Zone Award sponsored by Jam City encourages audience participation by choosing the standout game of the conference.
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In just three weeks, we’ll be heading to San Francisco to kick off Pocket Gamer Connects in the United States, and it will be an unforgettable celebration of the industry!
Indie developers are the lifeblood of the games industry. At Pocket Gamer Connects, we’re all about spotlighting the visionary creators pushing the boundaries of this dynamic sector. One of the standout highlights of our conferences is the Big Indie Zone. This beloved section of the event offers incredible opportunities for developers to showcase their groundbreaking work.
Whether you’re a publisher hunting for talent to collaborate with, an investor looking for fresh opportunities, a service provider eager to showcase your innovative tools, or a developer ready to network with fellow creatives, we’re here to make it happen. Our mission is to create opportunities for growth and collaboration, particularly for indie developers, while celebrating their extraordinary projects. Don’t miss your chance to be part of something truly spectacular!
We like to support indie developer where we can and therefore have an allocation of complimentary tickets to attend the conference set aside – as well as a limited number of Big Indie Zone Expo Tables (worth $600!) – which we hand out via a competition to a lucky, randomly selected, few. Just complete the form to enter.
The Big Indie Zone Audience Choice Award, sponsored by our friends at Jam City, is a standout moment of the event that really captures its spirit. Attendees can collect a voting form at the reception, explore the showcased games, and vote for the one that impresses them the most. The winner will be announced on the afternoon of the second day.
About Jam City
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment company providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience. The company is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing games, generating over $4 billion in aggregate lifetime bookings and nearly 1.5 billion downloads for hundreds of millions of players worldwide. In addition to conceiving and developing the hugely popular Cookie Jam and Panda Pop franchises, the company is a partner for some of the biggest global IP holders, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands from NBCUniversal, Disney, and Warner Bros. Games. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery has generated over $500 million in bookings and 135 million installs since launch, Cookie Jam has generated over $1 billion in aggregate lifetime bookings, and Jurassic World Alive continues to be one of the top-grossing geo-location-based, AR mobile games in the market. Jam City has studios and talent located in Los Angeles (HQ), Burbank, Cedar Falls, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, and internationally, in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Montreal, and Toronto. For more information, please visit www.jamcity.com.
More opportunities for Indies
There are plenty of other benefits for indie developers when attending the event; they are:
The Very Big Indie Pitch
Our Very Big Indie Pitch is a fun but hotly contested event that allows developers to present their games to a panel of industry experts, receive valuable feedback and compete for top prizes, including the iconic Big Indie Pitch baseball bat. It has proven to be a genuine game-changer for teams in the past.
Applications to enter close on Friday, Feburary 28, 2025
Investor Connector
Investor Connector offers selected applicants the chance to meet with investors and venture capitalists seeking opportunities in the right sectors. During the conference, we provide a dedicated, quiet space where pre-approved companies searching for funding can connect directly with investors eager to explore potential partnerships.
Applications to enter close on Friday, Feburary 28, 2025
Publisher SpeedMatch
The Publisher SpeedMatch session lets selected developers and publishers connect through quick, speed-dating-style meetings. These brief interactions don’t finalise deals, but they offer a valuable opportunity to establish initial contact, which can lead to more in-depth discussions during or after the conference.
Applications to enter close on Friday, Feburary 28, 2025
Journalist Bar
At the Journalist Bar our editorial team from PocketGamer.com, the longest-running and leading b2c mobile gaming site, will join us at the venue, led by Editor-in-Chief Dann Sullivan. If you’re a developer working on a game, this could be your chance to get it on the experts’ radar.
It can be hard to pin a journalist down, even at an event like Pocket Gamer Connects. So we’ve taken some of the randomness out of it with our Journalist Bar. It’s a place to meet a member of the Pocket Gamer consumer team. Dann and his team will have 15-minute appointments available to check out new games.
The mornings will be by appointment only, and the afternoons will be for walk-ins.
All fringe events are free for Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2025 ticket holders but require separate applications. Due to the event’s attendance, numbers can fill up prior to the deadline, which also end soon, so act fast!
If you haven’t yet, now is the time to book your ticket
Indie attendees have an exclusive discount on tickets for the upcoming conference. Don’t miss this opportunity to secure your ticket and join us for an inspiring event that could open the door to new opportunities. Act now to reserve your spot!
