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2008 Indie Game Summit - Final Line-Up Revealed

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2008-01-09 16:00:18 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
The organizers of the 2008 Independent Games Summit (that would be me, Matthew Wegner and Steve Swink!) have announced the full schedule for the February 2008 GDC event , with several new speakers confirmed and the January 16th early-bird deadline approaching The 2008 Independent Games Summit (operated by CMP, as is this site!) seeks to...
 
Tags: indie, successful web games, web games, game, indie game development, reality, scandinavian reality games, games, original games alike
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'The Amateur': Amateur vs Indie

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2008-02-04 16:07:16 by andrewd in GameSetWatch
Andrew Doull is an IT manager from New Zealand who spent the last 5 and a half years working in the United Kingdom. He's just emigrated to Sydney, Australia, and spends his free time developing Unangband , a rogue-like game, and blogging at Ascii Dreams . He writes an irregular column for GameSetWatch The gaming press is conflating two trends in...
 
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Column: 'Save the Robot': What Indie Games Can Learn From Little Miss Sunshine

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2008-01-28 08:00:27 by chrisd in GameSetWatch
Save the Robot is a biweekly column from Chris Dahlen crafted specially for GameSetWatch, dealing with gaming as pop culture and cult media Last week, Simon Carless - expanding on an "indie games rule" column by Clive Thompson - speculated whether indie games are "exploding." In quantity and quality, he and Thompson are surely dead-on that more...
 
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Best Of Indie Games: Love the Beagles

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2008-06-06 16:00:26 by timw in GameSetWatch
Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days, as well as any notable features on his sister 'state of indie' weblog This week on 'Best Of Indie Games', we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released...
 
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More GDC: Indie Games' Future

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2008-02-20 11:34:15 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
Yesterday at the Game Developers Conference heralded a full day of seminars, speeches and discussion about the future of independently made games. At the end of the day, a passel of young-ish game makers held court. They were all affable, and they all had made some very good small games which have been sold to Microsoft for the Xbox Live Arcade...
 
Tags: indie games, games, downloadable game arena, game, indie game makers, true game maker, future, game developers conference, xbox live arcade
 
 
 
 
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The state of indie gaming

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2008-04-30 20:52:57 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
Yes, Defend Your Castle was an indie game. It was developed in Flash, but indie none-the-less. The indie game scene has always been important to mainstream gaming, but things are really about to blow up. WiiWare is the easiest way for indie devs to get their title out to millions of gamers. We could really start to see some amazing stuff hit...
 
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Goats, Cheese, Canada: Toronto's Indie Games

2008-06-30 11:26:00 by Jean Snow in Wired: Game|Life
 
Want to play some indie games themed on cheese The Toronto Game Jam (TOJam) indie fest is done for this year -- it was held back in May -- but all the games that were produced during the 3-day event are still available for download, or played directly in-browser if flash-based What should you expect from the 34 games on offer? All entries were...
 
Tags: indie games, games, cheese, game, toronto game jam, indie game designers, cheese theme, info page informs, event
 
 
 
 
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The Indie Games Theme Song

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2008-09-08 03:12:00 by Passfield Games in Game Musings
 
The Pretentious Indie Gamer Scene (PIGScene) have posted a song that sums up the indie game scene as viewed by, well, pretentious indie gamers They express themselves best in their own words: "The PIGScene goes beyond the mainstream. We report on real indie games that real indie artists are creating. Note the word artist as opposed to...
 
Tags: games, real indie games, real indie artists, pretentious indie gamers, indie game scene, platform engine, word artist, pigscene, song
 
 
 
 
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Best Of Indie Games: For the Multiwin

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2008-09-27 00:00:07 by timw in GameSetWatch
Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days, as well as any notable features on his sister 'state of indie' weblog This week on 'Best Of Indie Games', we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released...
 
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IndieCade: Night Journey, Braid, and the importance of indie games

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