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IndieCade 2010: The Sundance of Indie Games comes back with style
Imagine walking into a vinyl store that is stocked to its eyeballs with Bob Dylan and Zeppelin, approaching the counter and asking if they carry any Justin Bieber. That was me at IndieCade.
I’ve never given much thought to indie games. When I think of my favorite games of the modern day, I think of Mass Effect and…well, mostly just Mass Effect. I also found myself lamenting the idea of showing up to a gaming convention that was going to be one bizarre and boring game after the next. I mean, these are indie games! What kind of budget could these games possibly have? The poor saps that are making these games are probably a bunch of Mountain Dew-guzzling rejects who are developing clumps of animated pixels on a screen as a way of trying to flag down the hiring staff over at Blizzard because the fan fiction they wrote about their characters on World of Warcraft didn’t get them noticed.
Oh, how wrong I was.
Listen to a 1 Hour Podcast Interview About The Rise of Indie Games
Keramcast.com (full disclosure – a sister site) features a comprehensive discussion and interview between new media enthusiast and host Keram Malicki-Sanchez and Sam Roberts (director of the Indiecade festival) and Jesse Vigil (Psychic Bunny). Topics covered include the past, present and future of indie games, how to develop an indie without any resources, how to get a game into the marketplace, new kinds of games that are emerging and the importance of this new medium.
Interview with Rob Jagnow, Creator of Hit Indie Game “Cogs”
An interview with Rob Jagnow, creator of popular indie tile-based puzzle game “Cogs.”
Indiecade California 2009 Winners and a Surprise Announcement of New Indie Game Label “The Singularity”
The winners of the IndieCade international indie games festival are announced and Psychic Bunny announced a partnership venture with IndieCade Chair and Director to form The Singularity – a new independent game label.
IndieCade International Independent Game Festival Day 1 – California, 2009
For better or worse, depending on your take, indie games are becoming something entirely new. Nowhere to be found the frag enthusiasts or Columbine tributaries that one used to expect from the definition of floppy disk era indies like DOOM and Duke Nukem. IGR reports from day one at Indiecade, Culver City 2009.
The 2009 List of IndieCade Indie Game Finalists – IGR Covering the Event from Culver City October 1st-4th
IndieGameReviewer.com are very excited to be covering the IndieCade independent games festival and conference in Culver City, California this weekend of October 1st-4th, 2009.
