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WePlay Expo 2024

November 16, 2024 - November 17, 2024

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Welcome to WePlay Cultural Exhibition, a gathering of high-quality global cultural content and experiences! This is the place where you can keep playing nonstop; this is the venue for fresh offline experiences; this is where you can find games and related content from all platforms around the world; this is a super fun game-themed amusement park. 

WePlay continuously enriches and expands the forms of exhibition and experience, creating a super party for content and people with special value in subculture fields. Console games, PC games, mobile games, immersive themes, tabletop role-playing games, guest activities, anime culture, trendy art, merchandise, and more—all geared towards a new generation audience, creating a festival where you can play to your heart’s content. The biggest pursuit here is offering high-quality and unique cultural experiences!

What is WePlay?

WePlay is the biggest indie game exhibition in China,a place where you can have a refreshing offline experience, where you can find gather different platform games from all over the world. This is a fantastic game festival with high-quality indie games, 3A games, cultural content and experiences from around the world!

With its aim to continuously enrich and expand exhibitions and experience styles, WePlay creates a “perfect storm” of content for people with special value in subcultures. Console games, PC games, mobile games, immersive themes, board games, guest activities, dimensional culture, trend art, exclusive merchandise, etc. WePlay is a grand event for new generations to enjoy high quality and unique cultural content experiences.

Key Numbers of WePlay

  • 15000+Attendance
  • 11mOnline Live Streaming views
  • 200+Exhibitors
  • 22m+Related Topics on Weibo
  • 300+Games
  • 100+Medias Attendance (Including online media, overseas media, KOL, Influencer)

What can you experience at WePlay?

  • New Games
  • Stage Events
  • Event Support
  • Guests & Activities
  • Game Awards
  • B2B Matching
  • Game Education
  • Merchandise
  • Board Games
  • trend Culture

New Games Every Year, WePlay gathers around 300 games, for all platforms, from China, Japan, Poland, and 13 other nations for on-location free trials.

In 2021, due to the epidemic, WePlay Expo went online and nearly 300 games were shown and had their trial version downloaded. The event game website (gmhub) during the event had a total PV of over 100k.

The biggest Indie Game Award Event in China – Excellent indie games from China and abroad are all gathered for the IndiePlay annual finalists’ exhibition. This gathers the most creative game developers in all of China. The Annual indiePlay Awards ceremony awards outstanding works in various categories.

Overseas Games – WePlay brings hundreds of high-quality overseas games to China every year for everyone to experience and play. In addition, on-site cross-border business negotiations can also take place. WePlay is increasingly becoming the preferred destination for more companies to engage in industry exchanges and discussions.

Game Education – In 2020, the Game Education Exhibit area displayed games developed by students from six universities in China, which received good praise from the event participants. Many students’ works also participated in the WePlay online exhibition. This year will continue to increase the participation of universities and cooperate with UGDAP (University Student Game Development Alliance Plus) to bring the excellent works of Chinese University Student Game Awards to the scene. This is with the express desire to create higher quality content and interaction with young creators.

Live Events Guests interviews, Speed-runs, Audience-Star Interactions, Live Music, and more! We hope you get immersed in the live events at WePlay.

Guest & Activities Since 2017, WePlay has had live interviews and on-site interactions with international game industry guests every year.

Event Support – At WePlay, not only do we have a lot of games for you to experience, but also myriad ways to get free game merchandise. Enjoy the treasure hunt!

Exclusive Merchandise WePlay is also a paradise of exclusive merchandise covering Designer Toys, Statues, Books, Apparel, and more. A plethora of cultures are reflected here for your convenience to enjoy and take home!

Table Tops For everyone, there is a board game that matches your gaming style. Here you can find that game and kindred spirits to join you in the fun!

Cultural Experience WePlay Expo is event with cultural experience; including Anime & Comic, Traditional Chinese Culture, Sci-Fi, Retro, Historical Medieval combat, and more. We featured the Official 25th anniversary exhibition area of the Chinese Paladin. Restored 5 major game scenes, historical stories and exhibits.

WePlay Expo

WePlay is the event where you can play games all the time with a fresh perspective you might have never had before. It has been organized by TOMO since 2017.

All types of platform games are present, with high quality cultural content and experience gathered from all over the world.

We also create a fantastic event directly for the newest generation who enjoys multi-platform games; such as console games, computer games, mobile games and board games. This includes unique experiences, such as themed immersion, guest activities, dimensional culture, pop art, merchandise, etc.

indiePlay

Over the past decade, indiePlay has emerged as a prominent indie game competition, boasting extensive domestic and international influence, prestige, and allure. Last year, the competition was flooded with over 500 game submissions from 3600 dedicated developers. As indiePlay’s popularity continues to soar internationally, they have introduced a global division, inviting developers from all over the world to showcase their talents and provide domestic players with a glimpse into the worldwide scene.

The awards ceremony will take center stage at the WePlay Expo on November 17th, featuring renowned professionals from the gaming industry as our award presenters.

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Details

Start:
November 16, 2024
End:
November 17, 2024
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Event Tags:
https://www.ciga.me/

Organizer

CIGA – China India Game Aliance
Phone:
+86-21-2022 5186
Email:
simon@ciga.me
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Venue

Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center
1099 Guozhan Rd
Shanghai,200126China
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Phone:
+86 21 2089 3600
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