GDV Festival brings Joeveno's favela shooters to the stage
The free two-day gathering of Brazilian game developers in Brasília adds the solo maker of Aviãozinho do Tráfico to its talks lineup.
- When
- Sat., Nov. 14 and Sun., Nov. 15, 2026. Programming starts at 9 a.m.
- Where
- SebraeLAB, Parque Tecnológico de Brasília (BIOTIC), Brasília, Brazil
- Admission
- Free, with registration. Places are limited.
Joeveno, the Rio de Janeiro musician and YouTuber behind the Aviãozinho do Tráfico series, is booked to speak at GDV Festival, a free two-day gathering of Brazilian game developers at SebraeLAB, inside Brasília's technology park. The festival's announcement says the talk covers independent development and how a personal project becomes a hit.
From the US trailer for BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4 (silent excerpt; the full trailer, soundtrack included, is on Steam). Courtesy Joeveno.
The series is a run of first-person shooters set in Brazil's favelas and built on id Tech 2, the engine behind Quake. Joeveno has described it as a tribute to the Brazilian mods and bootleg discs of the 2000s. The third entry, BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT, made Kotaku's list of the best shooters of 2025. A standalone expansion, BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4, arrived on Steam in September, and Killscreen covered the release.
The festival is organized by the game-development school CSJ Digital, Sebrae-DF and ABRING, Brasília's association of independent studios. Alongside talks and workshops, it runs the Mostra BRING, a showcase of more than 30 games from studios in the Federal District; the GDV Jam, a team game jam that runs across both days; and the GDV Awards, which name the best Brazilian independent game at the closing ceremony.
Other confirmed speakers include Philippe Lepletier of Uruca Game Studio, maker of Mandinga: A Tale of Banzo; Andrezitos, co-founder of Sad Socket, the studio behind 9 Kings; Rafael Bastos of Dumativa, producer of Enigma do Medo and of the five largest crowdfunding campaigns for Brazilian digital games; and the conductor Everton Luiz, who has worked with Elza Soares and writes scores for games, film and theater. Admission is free, with limited places, through the festival's site.
For more reading, see Bootleg and sometimes bloody: retro console culture in Brazil.
Screenshots from BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4. Courtesy Joeveno.
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