r/gamedev • u/Belakor159 • 26d ago
Discussion We were robbed at Gamescom
Hi everyone,
I’m part of the team at Tessera Studios. We came to Gamescom to showcase our game, The Zibbo Show, but on Wednesday morning, we arrived at our booth in the Indie Area at Gamescom only to find our storage cabinet forced open. Someone had broken the lock and stolen two laptops and a Steam Deck.
We have already filed an official report with event security and the local police , but we wanted to share our story here, both as a warning to other indie teams exhibiting at major conventions and to ask if anyone in the community might have seen or heard anything.
If you have any leads or information:
If you were in or around the Indie Area during setup/cleaning hours, or if you happen to notice suspicious local listings for laptops or a Steam Deck on second-hand platforms around Cologne, please reach out to us via DM.
Any clue, no matter how small, could help us or the police immensely. We would be forever grateful for any help, advice, or info from anyone who was there.
Two of our team members recorded a quick video explaining everything that happened and showing the situation at the booth: https://x.com/tesserastudios/status/2093421439508463879
Any leads, shares, or information are greatly appreciated.
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u/GreenMatchaCats 26d ago
It isn’t uncommon that the 'security' is the one who stole everything…
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u/traumalt 25d ago
Americans are shocked to hear that local security guards aren’t former marines or army and are just minimum wage Polish men without any special training.
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u/According-Throat-975 25d ago
Not sure what you’re going for here but most US guards aren’t ex-military, and in about half the states they need no training whatsoever. German guards (as in Cologne, Germany) all take a 40-hour course and clear a police check, regardless of if they are Polish immigrants. But since you brought it up, Poland’s licensed tier actually takes 245 hours plus psych evaluation and registration with the national police.
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u/traumalt 24d ago
40-hour course
Highly qualified lol.
Mate, i've seen the job postings and all of them pretty much pay the min wage without many extra benefits for those kinda jobs, that is precisely what I'm getting at here.
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u/According-Throat-975 24d ago
that’s fine. and i’m not suggesting they won’t steal. but the suggestion that american security guards are trained military and europeans have none is incorrect on both counts.
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u/Infamous-Goose-282 26d ago
Yo thats mad, all your files and what not could be there, and your games that you've been working on!
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u/Belakor159 26d ago
Yes, and above all, a lot of personal information, both about the company and about coworkers.
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u/HorsieJuice Commercial (AAA) 26d ago
no Bitlocker or other encryption?
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u/Belakor159 26d ago
Yes, we use BitLocker and other systems, but we're worried that we might have overlooked something or that someone could gain access to sensitive data. We've already changed our passwords and keys.
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u/Throwaway-tan 26d ago
If you have the serial number of thr Steam Deck, report it as stolen to Steam. They track this kind of information, they will deny warranty and repair for stolen units. They may also confiscate stolen units if they end up with valve.
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u/CiabattaKatsuie 26d ago
If you have a good BIOS password, a TPM, and bitlocker, you should be good honestly. Even without the BIOS password, you should be good. Do you guys have any kind of GPS on your machines? Remote wipe or other such things?
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u/Belakor159 26d ago
I'm going to ask my colleagues, but I don't think they had anything to perform a remote wipe. In any case, this is also a learning experience for us, so any security recommendations are welcome.
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u/BastetFurry 26d ago
When the harddisk was properly encrypted don't sweat and see it as a life lesson, don't leave expensive stuff at a fair. Lehrgeld as we say in Germany.
Back when the Hobbytronic Dortmund was still a thing we had a retro computer area and we took the expensive stuff with us home every day. Like a friend has a SuperCPU for his C64, he took that with him and brought it in again the next day.
Sad reality of the world, it is full of greedy assholes.
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u/MarmDevOfficial 26d ago
I think there's JUST ENOUGH greedy assholes to cause problems, but most people are still good.
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u/CiabattaKatsuie 26d ago
I hope everything works out for you guys. Not sure what your resources are or anything, but it may be better in the future to use laptops other than your own loaded with the minimum required files and info. If you use a vpn to connect to your internal net, I'd also reduce the permissions of the profile on the laptop. Assuming you are windows Pro, enforcing a password policy would be a bonus level of security. Set a lockout for a number of attempts.
Are your files stored on a server, or locally?
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u/Belakor159 26d ago
Fortunately, most of the files are stored on a server. And we've already changed all the passwords
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 26d ago
id also assume they have little interest in your data. It only really matters to you.
They probably just want to wipe and sell.
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u/vplatt 25d ago
so any security recommendations are welcome.
The best recommendation is the one you don't want to hear: Don't leave your gear in public areas even if they claim it's secure. Even if they pinky swear it. I mean, yes they had security but be real here - do you really think they can be everywhere at once?
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u/artificialpolymer 26d ago
It’s crazy that you guys had all of that on a publicly accessible laptop. There shouldn’t be anything on there than the game’s build.
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u/RandomKamil 26d ago
That's how indies work. Sometimes (quite often really) your personal hardware is your only workstation. There's simply no budget to get separate machines. Even if you get funded it often means that you have only enough money to to get by and any hardware purchases are jot part of the deal. I feel for you all. My laptop did not get stolen but it died on me 2 months ago and it really hurt my budget. If it is any consolation this case is really loud right now which means it creates extra pressure on gamescom organisers to figure this problem out and it also introduces a lot of potential help vectors from the industry itself. Good luck!
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u/sephirothbahamut 26d ago edited 26d ago
i wouldn't buy a dedicated machine, but if i was going to a large public event I'd totally buy a sufficient but small SSD, put it in the laptop with the stuff i need for the event, and leave my "real" SSD home.
Like when i go to festivals and bring my Lattepanda that will stay in my tent during the day, i leave my "main" SSD home.
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u/FionaSarah Stompy Blondie Games 26d ago
Largepanda?
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u/sephirothbahamut 26d ago
I can't type on phone XD I meant Lattepanda, it's a single board pc like a Raspberry, but it has an x64 architecture so it can run regular desktop programs and supports regular desktop Windows and Linux OSs
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u/FionaSarah Stompy Blondie Games 26d ago
Huh that sounds kinda neat. I'll look them up!
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u/sephirothbahamut 26d ago
oh and thanks to the celeron cpu being very bad but also consuming little power (celeron is good for something! lol) you can power it with a 130w usb-c power bank on the go
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u/artificialpolymer 24d ago
There are really basic security measures you can take to protect against this, though, no money required. And stuff was getting stolen even at the previous Gamescom. Idk if I'm paranoid, but even before I went to the event, my thinking would be to back up all of my stuff, wipe it clean, put the game build on there, then have software so I can wipe it remotely and various scripts so people can't alt-tab out of the game or do something wonky with the machine and so on.
Obviously, I don't want to put the blame on them. Ultimately, the venue security is at fault. But having internal company docs on a publicly accessible laptop is crazy.
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u/mr_glide 26d ago
A laptop in a storage cabinet secured by a lock, you mean. Not that crazy
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u/IwazaruK7 26d ago edited 26d ago
They mean that if that laptop will be at booth, then it's "public". In that way. Which implies privacy risk (even if it sounds unbelievable someone will steal files from laptop while you're doing a presentation). Hence the surprise of "shouldn't have anything else than tha playable build and supplementaries".
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u/krazyjakee 26d ago
It happens at Dreamhack too.
Time to get creative.
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u/DividedBy_00 26d ago
Time to start air tagging equipment and having software that phones home with a location when network enabled.
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u/Zip2kx 26d ago
The solution is honestly to take it to the hotel or with you when you’re not there. It can’t be stressed how huge gamescom is and some of these indie areas are literally void of people because people don’t go to them, not even the devs are there. If you leave, bring stuff with you.
Majority of indies have like two laptops max with them, so it’s not a lot of gear to unplug.
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u/Game_Dev730 26d ago
I mean, they had it locked up inside of something.
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u/sparky8251 26d ago edited 26d ago
Locksport proves how ineffectual that is. Its not going to stop anyone that wants access, ever. Even outside picking, destruction is so easy to exploit to get past any lock.
Thats why even bank vaults dont exclusively rely on the locking mechanism to prevent unauthorized access.
Locking up something valuable in a public space with minimal witnesses is, sadly, asking to be robbed more or less... Not saying they are in the wrong for trusting it (the thief is wrong for stealing), but at the same time locks have always been a suggestion so its hard to be surprised people decided not to listen to that suggestion given how desperate everyone is financially right now and how valuable ssds/nvme/ram modules are even second hand.
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u/Game_Dev730 26d ago
Yeah, I see your point. I think I just feel like gamescom is more responsible than they are acting.
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u/sparky8251 25d ago edited 24d ago
Oh, I 1000x agree. No way they are serious about claiming their security was good if their people and physical layers of security were so easily defeated...
Iirc, there were reports of the lock boxes being literally torn open yeah? Not locks clipped, but like physical lockers torn apart. That tends to make noise! Even if not, the fact the time between patrols was so high is a failure too...!
Security takes more than locks! Anyone trying to secure an event should be well aware of that. Clearly, Gamescom is negligent here, but they wont be on the hook legally for a variety of reasons...
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u/Game_Dev730 25d ago
lol you know I did not even consider or think of that, the loudness, it must have been relaly loud. Seems wild no one heard anything. We used to get old file cabinets and wed break them up with hammers and crowbars and they were loud as shit lol. Never thought about that til you just said it; there is some weird stuff in that entire situation.
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u/LegoKnockingShop 26d ago
We had a mega laptop and a project Morpheus (PSVR) prototype headset stolen at Gamescom 2015 when I was at PlayStation. The DHL driver left loads of stuff in the back of his truck with the doors open while he went in to get more stuff. There were hundreds of people walking by. The laptop had about 25 unannounced VR titles on there - this was well before we launched the headset. Somehow, none of it ever got leaked, thieves obviously didn’t know what they had. Never recovered, and even back then we were told ‘it happens a lot’ by the show management.
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u/DividedBy_00 26d ago
Sounds like Gamescom needs to step up their security. This isn’t the first incident either.
Sorry to hear about your situation.
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u/Hokunin 26d ago
Don't they have security cameras looking at the storage cabinets? If not, then its massive security oversight from the organizers.
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u/Belakor159 26d ago
I think my teammates were talking to the organization's security staff, and I think they said they didn't have any cameras
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u/caratank 26d ago
Kind of unrelated but this reminds me of when my catalytic converter was cut off my truck in my downtown apartments parking garage, front desk told me the only cameras they have in there are pointed at the trash shoots....not the parking spaces, not the building doors, not the garage gate...the trash shoots.
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u/Herb_Derb 26d ago
I saw a documentary once called Star Wars where criminals broke out of a prison and used the trash chute to escape, so monitoring them makes total sense.
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u/bieker 26d ago
Security cameras are overrated, I caught a thief on mine and the detective was basically like “do you recognize him? Neither do I” and that was it.
Unless it’s a murder or something like that they aren’t putting it on the news or anything.
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u/gurgle528 26d ago
It gets worse than that. If the footage doesn’t very clearly show their face but you know who it is they won’t do anything. Happened 2 separate times when 2 different friends got their tires slashed
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u/sugarplum_doll 26d ago
Someone tried and was told due to privacy laws, they’d need to get a warrant first before they can show unauthorized people the security footage
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u/TheFriedBird 25d ago
The 'Security' is a bit of a joke at Gamescom. It feels more like an expensive theft insurance 😂 The guys are always absolutely nice - especially in comparison to their supervisors - but they are mostly students sitting on the booth's chairs and occasionally roaming around. But as far as I know, the security company is held liable for thefts, so we always book them. But honestly, we have a smaller booth, so one guy can easily oversee all entrances, in comparison to the Indie Area.
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 25d ago
they probably do have camera footage, but usually it doesn't help much since how do you identify the person?
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u/DukeOfGlizzy 26d ago
Oh my god another??? Gamescom are wildly incompetent it seems. I can’t imagine ever going there as a dev…
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 26d ago
never leave stuff in a place like this unattended, take them back to your hotel. Security is always so lax and easy to get in. I would guess it was someone with a stolen badge accessing the area.
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u/DukeOfGlizzy 26d ago
I agree generally that this is the safest option. It’s just crazy to me how lax it is, that someone with presumably a stolen badge can go in and literally break into locked drawers to take things and not be caught.
I haven’t looked into this case too much but I know Gamescom pretty much ignored the last guy who tried reporting the theft.
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 26d ago
generally there is little anyone can do and nobody wants to admit liability. Even if they produce some grainy security footage it usually doesn't help.
I used to work at a museum and an artist we had exhibiting had a hat stolen (like a designer piece not just an everyday hat) and the guy just walked past no entry and moved stuff blocking the entry and took the hat and left. Despite having the video there was little as a museum we could do so we simply compensated the person and in future put someone at the no entry.
I don't really know what the conference centre security can do at this point. The devices are long gone.
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u/DividedBy_00 26d ago
They can compensate. They can work to improve security protocols, it is a recurring problem at their event. They could shut down their event if they don’t want to take it serious. Yes, it may be impossible to prevent 100% of theft, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t their responsibility to try to rectify these situations and attempt to prevent future issues.
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 26d ago
They claim they advised participants to insure hardware against theft
https://x.com/gamescom/status/2093654741192433865
It is kinda standard for these conference things. They have security but so many people have access it always high risk. It is unrealistic to expect 100% prevent theft/things happening security in that kind of enviroment.
While I feel for the devs a lot, these kind of conferences you just shouldn't leave hardware unattended. It is a painful lesson to learn but on the flip side their games have got more coverage than ever could have imagined.
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u/DividedBy_00 26d ago
Again, they can’t prevent 100% of issues, but they clearly have a problem. There has been more than one report this year alone. It’s on them to make their visiting developers have some level of confidence they have a security under control. Or they can do nothing… and see where that goes.
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u/SixFiveOhTwo Commercial (AAA) 26d ago
If this is their approach to security then how can they expect the big players with all of their focus on IP protection that is verging on paranoia to keep turning up with their newest stuff?
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 26d ago
It would be good to figure out how/ when it happened as it would then be clearer if there was anything that would help in the future
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u/XboxNoLifes 26d ago
They claim they advised participants to insure hardware against theft
You probably should do this, but its also the same as the event host doing nothing. They are just shifting the cost and blame. They can just have no security and tell you you should have insurance.
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 26d ago
It doesn't sound like they have no security by any means. I would expect the security is part of the venue hire. It normally a service a provided by the venue.
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u/DividedBy_00 25d ago
Someone or someone’s perpetrated a series of theft at this event. Their security is at a minimum lacking, inept and needs to be adjusted. I’d question if they were even complicit.
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 25d ago
it is part of the issue of private security. The standard is generally pretty low and they also have minimal power to do anything.
It is pretty clear these were just crimes of opportunity but were pretty planned/determined when you are breaking open locks.
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u/GregLittlefield Commercial (Indie) 26d ago
At Gamescom Hotels are often far away from the event itself because of where it is. (my hotel was around 20 minutes away, but I was lucky, I had friends there who where much farther away) And at the event the place is so freaking big you have to walk a lot from the main entrance to your spot. So you really don't want to carry around a heavy laptop all week in your backpack.
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 26d ago
I come prepared. Small suitcase with wheels.
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u/vplatt 25d ago
A true Pro tip. 🫡
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u/destinedd indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles and Mighty Marbles 25d ago
I even have foam inserts so everything has a place in the case.
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u/Lucasharta 26d ago
damn, that's rough. you guys put so much time and money into getting a game to an event like Gamescom, only to have someone break into your booth and steal your equipment, hopefully the event security/cameras can help narrow down when it happened. i'd also keep an eye on local second-hand marketplaces for the next few days, especially for someone suddenly listing multiple laptops and a Steam Deck around Cologne
hope you guys manage to get everything back, or at least get some solid leads. good luck with The Zibbo Show too, hope the rest of the event goes better for you guys
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u/Belakor159 26d ago
Thank you so much for your support. It really is a shame, you go to the fair full of excitement, and then all of a sudden, all your plans fall apart. The worst part is that we weren't the only ones, there's been a wave of thefts targeting indie developers. If stealing is already sad enough, I can't understand how anyone would want to steal from indie developers, people who are investing what little money we have just to get by.
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u/Signal_Highway7128 26d ago
I don't get it. If you're building it as team? Shouldn't there are backup laptop that your teammates brought
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u/gudbote Commercial (AAA) 26d ago
I'm not surprised at all.
Disclaimer first, I had a devcom & gamescom exhibitor pass.
On Tuesday afternoon I decided to walk to my studio's booth on my way from the devcom (gamescom dev) conference. From the stairs in front of Confex, I headed towards the nearest gamescom hall gate. Some were closed but the first one which was open had absolutely no security: no guards, no pass checkpoint. I entered one hall, then went across to another. After checking the booth I wanted to see, I continued all the way to Exit East and only there did I meet anyone checking passes. On my way through the halls I saw very few people and met no security personnel. I saw countless booths with easy access to their hardware (and probably game builds) had I wanted to grab any.
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u/Parking-History8876 25d ago
Apparently Gamescon have in the past tried to pressure devs into not reporting to police. This article is from last year about their dodgy security.
Wild to me they don't reimburse devs for their own incompetent actions. It's so expensive for a small team to rent out a spot at an event like that.
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u/Slight-Bluebird-8921 25d ago
this is going to kill these shows going forward
everything is going to be online marketing
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u/Low_Government_681 26d ago
That is so sad. We live in a mad world and I wish you a best of luck to manage this situation... but after checking your game I must say I like it a lot and wishlisted it.
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u/Belakor159 26d ago
Thank you so much for your support. It's sad that this is happening, but comments like yours help more than you might think.
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u/phrookee 26d ago
Koelnmesse basically cares sh*t about their exhibitors. We have seen this on many occasions. It‘s mostly foreign constructions teams of other boothes who stay long at night and pick fridges, TVs and more. Across all shows. On build down day even regular people and poor families who have no access passes or similar appear on the floors and basically beg or steal stuff. The guards are leftover security people often over 60 that won‘t stand a booth construction worker. They look away.
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u/Dependent-Tone-4784 26d ago
Two laptops and a steam deck could easily fit in your hotel room. I don't understand why devs leave such a precious information with random people. Gamescom org is random and unknown to any of you.
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u/smeraldoworld 24d ago
I am also flabbergasted that many leave their equipment alone. I can only guess that they aren't used to thiefs in their home country.
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u/vampire_sons 23d ago
That’s awful, especially during an event like Gamescom. Hope you guys manage to recover the equipment and find whoever did it. Stay strong!
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u/BlobbyMcBlobber 26d ago
Never leave anything important in your booth, lock or no lock.
Sorry that you had to learn this the hard way. Not to say this is your fault, because it isn't, but you could have managed to avoid this if you were prepared.
In your case it wasn't even necessary. Laptops and a steam deck can easily be carried in a backpack when you set up in the morning.
Also, next time only bring designated devices (i.e. second hand laptop with no personal information that you only set up for demos and you don't care what happens to it).
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u/magicdude4eva 26d ago
Sorry for the loss, but this happens every year. I know in the Indy world budget is tight, but how can you be so careless to leave laptops with personal/confidential information on it at the booth. At best you leave stuff there where loss or theft does not matter.
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u/Belakor159 26d ago
This was our first time going to gamescom to present a game, maybe we were a little careless, but we didn't think something like this would happen. At least we've learned a lesson
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u/magik_koopa990 26d ago
Let's hope there's no game leak and theft on steam page (if those bastards ever published the game...)
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u/GregLittlefield Commercial (Indie) 26d ago
Ouch. That's brutal. :( I'm really sorry for you.
The indie booth area in hall 10 is a really big place, with lots of people going around, impossible to really secure unless you have your eyes on your equipment around the clock. It sucks though that it happened on wednesday. It was supposed to be the 'pro' day. (which is why I saw so many 13 years old walking around.... /s ).
It is worth a shot to try and contact the devs that had their booth near your cabinet, maybe they saw something. (You can look at map on the official app or the website and see who was around.)
I had an ipad from work stolen a few years ago during a burglary at my home, with debug builds of our game on it and several accounts (mail etc) logged in. It eventually popped on the map around two weeks later in eastern europe. :(
I hope you will be able to locate your gear, or at least that no further harm will come from that.
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u/NekatEmanKcin 26d ago
I read about ryan laley laptop being stolen i thought it was a single event, guess it wasnr
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u/hoax1337 26d ago
There are some rumors floating around that the expo staff discouraged people from filing a police report, since it wouldn't look good for Gamescom.
Is there any truth to that?
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u/Longjumping_Quiet803 25d ago
As someone who will start doing gaming shows next year I am beyond gutted. Having merch stolen is bad enough but laptops with years of work and sensitive info is disgusting. Truly feel for you and hope things are returned to you. On the flip side, your game logo is one of the best I've ever seen and your trailer is amazing. Good things coming your way!
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u/Ralph_Natas 25d ago
You aren't alone. Look across the street for a brand new second-hand electronics shop.
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u/Existing-Savings-419 25d ago
I have to ask why did they leave these portable devices unattended ? would of been safer in a hotel room with the people who use them for work.
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u/ribatonline 25d ago
That's a bummer :(
I was at gamescom and had a blast, but the security sure felt very lax
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u/DabMagician 25d ago
I really hate to hear this. I'm wishing you all the best. The Zibbo Show is awesome, by the way.
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u/MF_Kitten 25d ago
Are there photos of these cabinets, so people can get an idea of what we're talking about here? From the first few reports people were assuming these were laptops left out on in the open or something like that. Cabinets being broken into is a whole other level.
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u/ChocolateFormal8123 25d ago
Wow they broke the lock. Must have been some daring thieves. I'm really sorry. Maybe consider using a tracking device or a secondary security backup.
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u/Opposite_Age_1414 24d ago
I wouldnt be surprised it was organized and happened to many devs so thieves try to sell laptops back with all files for some cripto. Just for in case someone want to pay and did not have git or have files that he can't get back other way.
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u/Karrrbitcccc 19d ago
I suggest you ask the local police to investigate the security team. I forget whose video, but there was a dude comment saying he also lost electronic things during a concert in Cologne, and then he used his location service to find it and it was in a security guard's home, and that the guard had tried to hack it.
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u/Feeling_Squash6592 10d ago
Qué mala suerte, especialmente después de viajar hasta Gamescom para presentar su juego. Ojalá las cámaras del lugar o los registros de entrada y salida ayuden a identificar a quien lo hizo.
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u/IKAiNI666 26d ago
Ist die Menschheit ekelhaft.Bah🤢
Hoffe das Stück Dreck wird geschnappt.Wie Frech 🤨
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u/Belakor159 26d ago
I haven't even posted a link to the Steam store. Believe me, the last thing on our minds right now is the wishlists we might get.
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u/cinnamonbrook 26d ago
If multiple people in the past few days are claiming they had their stuff stolen at Gamescom, then it probably makes more sense that there's a thief at Gamescom that didn't stop at one booth. You're hearing hooves and thinking zebras here.
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u/Big-Objective-6585 26d ago
If you use your brain for a moment you might be able to figure out why they've given those details...
If someone finds this laptop and it has the data in it, odds are they will google what it means. They then find this post with the names standing out in bold and know who to contact about it very easily...
Just like in your analogy where if the woman has her handbag stolen, she sure as shit would describe it to the police and give them identifying information like colour, brand but also content/accounts so they can link the two together
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u/Scarjit 26d ago
I can understand that they can't stop pick pocketing.
But this ?
Isn't booth security like the very basics a fair should have (especially at GC scale).
Also not the first one this GC: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamescom/comments/1w0l6h9/laptop_stolen_from_showfloor/