[This weekend, we’ve been updating the IGF website after the submission deadline, and while in there, I also had a chance to properly update the Independent Games Summit website. Since this is the first time the history of the Summit has been laid out, figured I’d crosspost over here.]
The Independent Games Summit, which first took place in 2007, is a forum to discuss the state of independent games at the Game Developers Conference, the largest game creation conference in the world.
It takes place alongside the pioneering Independent Games Festival at GDC, which is in its eleventh year of awarding and showcasing the best independent video games, with previous winners including Everyday Shooter, World Of Goo, Braid, Gish, Darwinia, Audiosurf, and many more.
The Summit, which will take place for the third time on March 23rd and 24th, 2009 in San Francisco, California, features lectures, postmortems and roundtables from some of the […]
Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back
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