BIC Festival / Busan Indie Connect Festival 2020 has unveiled the list of corporate sponsors who have helped to bring the contactless event live to audiences worldwide, online. The corporate sponsors are KRAFTON, Xsolla, Pearl Abyss, NAVER CLOUD PLATFORM, Epic Games, NCSOFT, Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea, and ONE store – a total of 8 companies, aiming to make the game market have more variety and vitality with these indie titles.
Enhanced grade sponsors for BIC Festival 2020 include:
- KRAFTON, developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- Xsolla, global payment services and publishing solution company
- Pearl Abyss, developer of Black Desert
- NAVER CLOUD PLATFORM, the biggest Korean Cloud service
The Korean branch of Epic Games is in the line-up as a Standard grade sponsor, while Starter grade sponsors include:
- NCSOFT, developer of Lineage, Aion, Blade&Soul
- Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea
- ONE store, representing the Korean app store
BIC Festival 2020 will run from 19 to 25 October with the goal of presenting a new exhibition model for the new normal, by utilizing GeForce Now(Cloud game platform) with LG Uplus, and NAVER Cloud Platform of NAVER Business Platform.
“We are very honored and thankful to be sponsored by many companies for the BIC Festival for finding and promoting local indie games with potential. We’ll try our best to promote good indie games with the expertise of the sponsors and the great support of the BIC Committee.”
Tae-Geon Seo, Executive Chairman of the Busan Indie Connect Festival Organizing Committee