Indie SIG/Indie Festivals/IndieCade
International Game Developers Association
Submissions are open for IndieCade 2009: The International Festival for Independent Games and creative interactive media’s juried competition and slate of events.
Call for Submissions:
Indiecade invites independent game artists and designers from around the world to submit interactive media of all types – from art to commercial, ARG to abstract, mind-bending to mobile, serious to shooter – for consideration. Work-in-progress is encouraged.
A diverse jury of industry leaders will select entries for top prizes at the IndieCade 2009 October Festival. All entries for the Festival will also receive consideration for presentation at the other 2009 IndieCade international exhibitions including E3, Siggraph, and More....
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 15, 2009 at Midnight PST.
The IndieCade 2009 festival will take place in October of this year. In addition to the festival, throughout the year IndieCade will host a series of global exhibitions, salons, screenings, and events aimed at cultivating innovation and artistry in interactive media, helping to create a public perception of games as rich, diverse, artistic, and culturally significant. Each IndieCade event spotlights the best in cutting-edge work and innovative game design talent to the public, fostering the independent design community thriving at the fringes of this major industry.
IndieCade 2009’s festival program is open to the public and includes theatrical and gallery exhibitions featuring top finalist games by an internationally renowned jury, artist presentations and talks, featured previews of anticipated new innovative work, an award reception featuring the top awardees, salons and workshops led by industry leaders and featured gamemakers, intimate lunch and evening programs, special VIP and networking events, ongoing and city-wide gameplay.
IndieCade 2009 Events:
IndieCade @ E3, Los Angeles (June 2-5)
IndieCade @ SIGGRAPH, New Orleans (Aug 5-7)
IndieCade 2009 FESTIVAL (Oct 1-4)
IndieCade Europe, GameCity, UK (Oct 26-29)
(and more locations to be announced…)
For more information: IndieCade.com or email central@indiecade.com
About IndieCade:
IndieCade supports independent game development and organizes a series of international festivals and showcase exhibitions for the future of independent games. It encourages, publicizes, and cultivates innovation and artistry in interactive media, helping to create a public perception of games as rich, diverse, artistic, and culturally significant. IndieCade’s events and related production and publication programs are designed to bring visibility to and facilitate the production of new works within the emerging independent game movement. Like the independent developer community itself, IndieCade’s focus is global; it includes producers in Asia, Europe, Australia, and wherever independent games are made and played. IndieCade was formed by Creative Media Collaborative, an alliance of industry producers and leaders founded in 2005. Advisors to IndieCade include Dave Perry, Will Wright, Eric Zimmerman, Greg Costikyan, Tracy Fullerton, and Keita Takahashi among many other storied industry veterans and rebels. [1]
