‘IGF Presents’ To Have Local Showcase At Austin GDC

So, you may have spotted a just-debuted announcement about Austin GDC 2008 opening its registration - in there is the revelation that “an Independent Games Festival (IGF) showcase” will be part of the September 15-17th 2008 show.
However, that’s all the information we’ve released thus far, so I wanted to explain in more detail and offer an informal call for submissions to this IGF Showcase, which will be significantly different from the traditional Independent Games Festival competition, summit and finalist exhibition that we hold every February/March at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Basically, we decided that the world doesn’t necessarily need another generic worldwide indie showcase - especially as the Independent Games Festival at GDC does that on such a large scale already, and will always be our flagship event (call for submissions for IGF 2009 will be up in the next 4-6 weeks, by the way!)
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Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back