[GAMBIT-UROPS-summon] Boston Festival of Indie Games - Deadline Extended to August 20th, Prizes!!

[Richard Eberhardt]

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.

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 http://bostonfig.com/?p=253

So submit your games now!

Call for Submissions Extended to August 20th; Prizes Announced

The call for submissions to the Boston Festival of Indie Games Showcase is  open until August 20th.

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. The showcase will include videogames and non-digital games (board games, street games, LARPs), produced in the area of New England.

Call for submissions

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.

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.

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.

Note that the new deadline for submissions is August 20, 2012.

Eligibility

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:

  *   Games may be either recently released (within the last 6 months) or in production.
  *   Games should be independently produced, though publisher funding/distribution is acceptable.
  *   Games are not produced by a major publisher-owned studio, which is included in this list http://www.theesa.com/about/members.asp
  *   Games should be produced by studios in the New England area.
  *   Games should include at least one finished, playable level.
  *   Game content and other materials are owned solely by the developer/designers or legal permission obtained to use any other copyrighted material.

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.

Prizes

Those submitting to the digital games category will be eligible for one of these prizes, which will be decided by popular vote.

  *   Adobe – Full version of Adobe Creative Suite
  *   Unity – Unity Pro license
  *   Wacom –  Intuos5 Medium tablet
  *   Dell – X51 gaming PC and M18x

More prizes are on the way, stay tuned!

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us http://bostonfig.com/contact/

If you have a game, please submit it via our online system http://bostonfig.com/game-submissions/<http://bostonfig.com/game-submissions/>

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