Indie Dev Argentina 2025 (Day 1) — A Great Celebration of Games, Collaboration, and Making Games Together

As you might have guessed by now, I have a big interest in small indie games. It’s not hard to see why: I’m an aspiring game developer myself. Today, Saturday, the 19th of July, as I write this, the first day of Indie Dev Argentina 2025 was held in Buenos Aires, and I had the opportunity to participate as a developer, along with my team at Libromancy Studios.

I’m a writer too, and I really wanted to spread the word about Argentine games, so here we are!

This is the second outing for IDA, as it started last year as a small expo for local independent games. This year’s event is two days long, and it’s held at the wonderful Casa Provincia de Buenos Aires, here in the country’s capital.

The event started at 10 in the morning with a shared breakfast, followed by an opening ceremony that lasted about an hour, maybe a bit more.

The opener recognized the event’s organizing parties. Quite a remarkable list of people, including members of the University of Buenos Aires, Banco Provincia, the local gaming outlet Press Over, officials from the provincial government, and, of course, the administration of Casa Provincia de Buenos Aires.

A great deal of importance was given to gaming as a cultural medium, with which discourse and politics are, whether we want them to or not, always intertwined.

There was a deep desire for the formation of communal bonds and elevating the collaborative work that entails creating video games.

Around 103 games were submitted to be a part of IDA 2025, but just 20 were selected. Here’s hoping that the rest of the participants don’t give up and keep participating in these events.

Argentina has kept an indie community of game developers along with a more professional industry for many years now. With a focus on federalization, indie gamedev events are held all over the country — aiming to avoid centralizing all activity at the country’s capital.

From EVA (Argentina’s Game Exposition, the main event in the local circuit) to smaller venues like Indie Dev Argentina or FIJA (Festival of Independent Argentinian Games), to regional meetings, indie developers have many chances at networking and getting eyes on their work.

And how many games! With 20 games appearing at the exposition, there’s a great deal of variety on offer. Visual novels, horror titles, Pong parodies, inventive hack-and-slashers, and so much more.

I didn’t have the chance to play much on the first day, however, as my role as part of one of the teams selected required most of my attention.

No worries! Tomorrow is the second day. There are prizes, playthroughs, and even interviews to come in the near future.

The people at The Geekiary have given me the go-ahead to share with you a bit of wonder from my dear South American country. I hope you’ll enjoy getting to know some of the people from the local scene!

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Author: Claribel M

Writer, narrative designer, journalist. Perpetually doing too much.

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