The organiser of Croatia’s Reboot Develop Blue convention has been issued with a bankruptcy order by a courtroom in Zagreb citing €520,000 in unpaid money owed, in keeping with a machine-translated report in Croatian news site tportal. Digitalna avantura, operated by Damira Đurovićam, has been directed to pay €2.000 to begin bankruptcy proceedings, after a judgement discovered that the corporate didn’t have the belongings to pay its excellent money owed.
The judgement confirms long-standing issues in regards to the future of Reboot Develop, which have swirled for months. Efforts to contact Đurovićam by a quantity of totally different events, together with by GamesIndustry.biz, have failed and no different employees are at present recognized to be working for the enterprise.
The Dubrovnik Sheraton, which has hosted Reboot Develop Blue since 2015, confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that it has acquired no reserving for 2026 and now not hosts Reboot Develop. The occasion, which normally runs in April, had celebrated its tenth anniversary within the venue final yr.
tportal reported that Đurović was one of the unique founders of Digitalna Avantura, which launched in 2012. A protracted-standing determine within the Croatian video games business, he beforehand served as editor-in-chief of gaming journal Hacker and launched fashionable Zagreb-based client occasion Reboot Infogamer. That occasion final ran in 2024, which was the final yr for which Digitalna Avantura submitted public accounts, exhibiting €139,000 revenue from €1.12 million in income.
Reboot Develop was launched in 2014 with “the goal of increase an awesome, high-end sport convention for builders and business professionals in a single of probably the most stunning locations on this planet,” he advised GamesIndustry.biz in 2015, and rapidly made a reputation for itself by combining main Western keynote audio system with a uniquely laid-back ambiance within the Dubrovnik Sheraton, a brief hop from the UNESCO World Heritage Web site on the Adriatic Sea. Indie veteran Rami Ismael described it as “the best games event in the world“, and it was celebrated for its influence on elevating the Jap European growth scene.
A Canadian sibling, Reboot Develop Purple, launched in Banff in 2019 and was well-received however the next yr’s occasion was cancelled attributable to to the COVID-19 pandemic and it didn’t return.
Considerations over this yr’s Reboot Develop Blue had beforehand been raised by those that’d already paid for tickets, however noticed the corporate fall silent final yr. Makes an attempt to contact the occasion for refunds have failed, though many have been holding out hope that it will nonetheless happen. GamesIndustry.biz understands that some native builders nonetheless plan on congregating within the space in mid-April.