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Sunday Comics: Dead Island The Best of the Independent Games Festival 2011 exhibition at Melbourne’s Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is set to end on March 25. Gloomy news, I know — my socks have been thoroughly marinated in a pool of liquid human despair formed by my tears. But! The leaking of said sad-fluids was premature, to say the least, because come March 27, ACMI will host the Best of IGF 2012.
You’re on a first date. It’s going pretty well. You’ve had a good time talking, you’re both laughing a lot. You’re feeling the vibe.
Because we somehow neglected to post it this week, the Independent Games Festival (IGF) has announced the finalists for this year’s IGF Awards, which will be held at the Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco in March.
The Independent Games Festival has announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft Games Studios. The partnership will involve a jury of indie game developers awarding an “XBLA Prize” (XBLA being Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade service), which will be given out at the IGF, a festival and awards ceremony that happens each March at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
It’s always wonderful to see a worthy indie game slowly bud and blossom over time. In this case we’re talking about the underwater fantasy world of Aquaria which is, after winning awards at the Indie Game Festival and hitting Steam, now making a debut on the iPad later this year.
Wow – August is set to be a big month for the Sydney Opera House and games. Earlier today we posted that PaRappa the Rappa creator Masaya Matsuura is heading there for a show, now we’ve gotten word that the Independent Games Festival is showing a selection of games. The best news? The show is free.
