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<div style="text-align: left;">The deadline to submit to the Boston Festival of Indie Games has been extended until August 20th. If you have a game (digital or cardboard, or LARP), you still have time to submit it to the festival. There will be prizes for digital
games, including hardware and licenses to software. </div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">If you want to tell your friends about the festival, you can forward this email, or you can send them to the page with all the information
<a href="http://bostonfig.com/?p=253">http://bostonfig.com/?p=253</a></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">So submit your games now!</div>
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<h1 style="text-align: left;">Call for Submissions Extended to August 20th; Prizes Announced</h1>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>The call for submissions to the Boston Festival of Indie Games Showcase is open until
<span style="text-decoration:underline">August 20th.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Co-presented by MIT Game Lab and Boston Indies, the Boston Festival of Indie Games is a debut celebration of independent game development with emphasis on the New England region. Boston Festival of Indie Games seeks to support and
showcase the efforts of independent game developers by providing a free public event that encourages attendees to share and interact with games in various forms, both digital and non-digital. The Boston Festival of Indie Games is focused on creating an intersection
between community, academic and independent interests in game play. <strong>The showcase will include videogames and non-digital games (board games, street games, LARPs), produced in the area of New England.</strong></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Call for submissions</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Indie Video Games Showcase is an opportunity for independent developers to show off their games, get feedback from the public, and win prizes. Voting will be open to the public in different categories. The submission free of
15$ per digital game; 10$ for submissions from students.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Game creators can also showcase their card games, board games, street games and LARPS to the non-digital games section of the festival. This section is non-competitive, and therefore there is no submission fee for submitting non-digital
games. We hope to have prizes for non-digital games in the future.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Submissions will be first screened by Boston FIG volunteers who will make sure that the game meets our criteria. The games will then be reviewed by at least one of our curators, who will provide feedback to the developer. The curators
will make the final decision about which games make it into the showcase.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Note that the new deadline for submissions is August 20, 2012.
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Eligibility</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">What constitutes indie is always difficult to determine, so game makers should be ready to make the case for why their games are suitable for the showcase. These are some of the criteria to identify games that are suitable for
the festival:</p>
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<li style="text-align: left;">Games may be either recently released (within the last 6 months) or in production.</li><li style="text-align: left;">Games should be independently produced, though publisher funding/distribution is acceptable.</li><li style="text-align: left;">Games are not produced by a major publisher-owned studio, which is included in this list
<a href="http://www.theesa.com/about/members.asp">http://www.theesa.com/about/members.asp</a>
</li><li style="text-align: left;">Games should be produced by studios in the New England area.</li><li style="text-align: left;">Games should include at least one finished, playable level.</li><li style="text-align: left;">Game content and other materials are owned solely by the developer/designers or legal permission obtained to use any other copyrighted material.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: left;">Game makers should be ready to demo on their own hardware, or be able to send someone who can do it for them, on September 22nd, 2012. If we have hardware available, we will let entrants know asap.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Prizes</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">Those submitting to the digital games category will be eligible for one of these prizes, which will be decided by popular vote.</p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:small">Adobe
<strong><em>Full version of Adobe Creative Suite</em></strong><br>
</span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:small">Unity
<strong><em>Unity Pro license</em></strong><br>
</span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:small">Wacom <strong><em>Intuos5 Medium tablet</em></strong>
</span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:small">Dell
<strong><em>X51 gaming PC and M18x</em></strong></span> </li></ul>
<p style="text-align: left;">More prizes are on the way, stay tuned!<strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us
<a href="http://bostonfig.com/contact/">http://bostonfig.com/contact/</a><br>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>If you have a game, please submit it via our online system
<a href="http://bostonfig.com/game-submissions/">http://bostonfig.com/game-submissions/</a><a href="http://bostonfig.com/game-submissions/"></a></strong></p>
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