Nexon Developer Conference Returns Offline After Six Years, Opening on June 24

On May 30, Nexon announced that it will hold the "Nexon Developer Conference (NDC)" for three days from June 24 to 26 at the Nexon headquarters and surrounding areas in Pangyo, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. This marks the first time in about six years that Nexon is opening the NDC as a public offline event.

The NDC began in 2007 as a small-scale internal knowledge-sharing event and has been open to the public since 2011. Each year, professionals from the domestic and international gaming industry participate as speakers, presenting lectures on a variety of topics. The lecture fields have also expanded in line with technological changes, covering new technologies such as platforms, genres, virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI). Over the past ten years, the cumulative number of on- and offline attendees at the NDC has reached approximately 91,100.

Nexon announced on the 30th that it will hold the "Nexon Developer Conference (NDC)" for three days from the 24th to the 26th of next month at the Nexon headquarters and surrounding areas in Pangyo, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Photo by Nexon

This year’s NDC 25 will feature a total of 49 lectures across 10 fields, including intellectual property (IP) growth cases and strategies, postmortems, development experiences utilizing generative AI, game success and failure prediction, large-scale server architecture design, and physics-based character implementation.

Notably, developers of Nexon's major titles such as "MapleStory," "FC Online," and "Pracia Electric," as well as representatives from leading domestic and international game companies that have developed well-known games, will participate as speakers.

Son Junho, Head of Talent Strategy at Nexon Korea, stated, "As we return to a public offline event for the first time in six years, we hope this will be a meaningful occasion where professionals from various fields gather to share practical knowledge and experience," adding, "We will thoroughly prepare every aspect of the event to ensure it is a valuable experience for all attendees."

Meanwhile, the recruitment for offline attendees for NDC 25, which began on May 19, closed early after just three days. The opening ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on June 24 at the Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy and Innovation in Pangyo. During the ceremony, Lee Jungheon, CEO of Nexon Japan, will deliver a welcome speech, and Park Yonghyun, Vice President of Nexon Korea, will give a keynote lecture on the theme "Why We Make Big Games."

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