IGS: ‘Building The Future Of Indie Games’ Panel

Here on GSW, we’re proud to present the latest video from this year’s Independent Games Summit, which took place at Game Developers Conference 2007 last March as part of the Independent Games Festival.
This was the final panel of the inaugural Independent Games Summit, and it was somewhat optimistically called ‘Building The Future of Indie Games’. It featured the following delightful indie folks: Greg Costikyan, Manifesto Games; Mark Morris, Introversion; Eric Zimmerman, Gamelab (kindly standing in for originally scheduled panelist David Jaffe, who was down the chip shop or something); Derek Yu, Bit Blot (this is coincidentally posted on the day Aquaria will be released!)
Ah yes and Moderator: Simon Carless, IGF - that’s me! The original description for this ‘future of indie’ lecture is below, and was obviously quite idealistic and ‘big picture’. But the reality of the unscripted panel involved some horrible ass metaphors and extended, entertaining arguments, as far […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back