Hello there!

I am currently writing a master's thesis at the University of Brussels on the experience of Belgian indie developers on Steam. My thesis focuses on marketing and communication.

If you are Belgian indie dev, have a store page on Steam and can spare 30 minutes to answer questions about your choices and dreams, please contact me on Steam (lafilleange95) or at angela.binot@ulb.be.

The interview would be conducted in audio format on Discord or the app of your choice, but I am flexible with the scheduling.
Don't hesitate to ask me questions for more information if needed :)

If you know someone who can be interested please share the information, thank you!

PS: I speak English and French but my Dutch is sadly not the best yet :/

Obviously I have a little something for those who read me:
The first one is missing a J and the second one a 5

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/zI_HK/
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Sc_mU/

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As a small note:
The links missing only something in the description, not in the link itself. So each one can still click on it to get directed to the GA, without to add something.
You maybe want to fix this ^^

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Thank you for your reply!
Is it fixed now?

11 months ago
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no at least for me the giveaways go direct to the main giveaway page

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Isn't that meant to happen given the last paragraph before the links?

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oh your right i didn't read it correctly

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Yes, fixed now :)

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Good luck with your thesis and finding someone suitable. I am assuming you already tried to contact belgian devs directly via Steam, Twitter or their homepages?

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Thank you for your wishes :)
I already have some contacts and people who accepted to be interviewed. I went to a few events focused on Belgian devs but I am also thinking about those who didn't attend and given that I am focusing on indie ones they can be hard to find. That's why I am asking generally like that too.

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Thought so. :)

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Look for BloodyGoodReviews

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I see that he is a Belgian founder of Pirate PR a marketing & PR agency for the indie game industry. Thank you for the information :)

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no idea if this will help but though google found - https://belgiangamesindustry.com/belgian-game-studio/

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Thank you for your response :D I already did that research and am planning to contact some of the indie studios of the list.

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You should ask devs from the Benelux directly on Twitter.
Rami Ismail is Dutch but if he should retweet your request you'll get plenty of candidates.

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Thank you a lot for bringing his profile into my attention, he seems to be very interesting :D I am going to read that article about surviving the indiepocalypse.
I am keeping that advice to publish on twitter too thank you, I started by IRL networking, steam groups and here.

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Larian Studios comes to mind. If they still are "Indie" is debatable but they are in the industry a long time and as they are based in Belgium they'll know the local industry landscape. I'd contact them.

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Good luck with your thesis

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Bump :)

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Bumpo!

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Thank you ^^

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Happy to help :)

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Bump for science

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bump

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Little up because the giveaways are ending in 3 days ;)

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bump 👍
Also the giveaway are ending in 1 week (17 June)

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Thank you :D I thought I put the deadline for the 10th but it seems to be a week after that haha

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I second contacting Rami Ismail since not only is he a Dutch indie developer of note - being part of Vlambeer - he is part of a whole building complex specifically meant for indie devs, if I recall correctly from a documentary. I cannot find the name for the life of me.
There is also Tale of Tales, an indie studio in Belgium.
I'm not sure if either Vlambeer or Tale of Tales are still around, but maybe you could still contact the developers to share their stories?

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Good luck with it, have a bump!

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