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Road to the IGF: Galactic Cafe's The Stanley Parable

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by Mike Rose [01.31.14]
In this latest Road to the IGF interview, Wreden and Pugh discuss how they made The Stanley Parable, and what AAA companies like Valve could be doing to better highlight and nurture the modding community.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Business/Marketing, Exclusive, Video, IGF

Road to the IGF: Untame's Mushroom 11
by Kris Graft [01.30.14]
Mushroom 11 is a game about a blob. It's also the kind of game that developer Itay Keren has always wanted to make.
Indie, Video, IGF

Don't miss our Road to the IGF finalist Q&A series
by Kris Graft [01.30.14]
It's that time of year again: This week, we've started publishing our Road to the IGF series of interviews with Independent Games Festival Finalists. Don't miss them!
Indie, IGF

Road to the IGF: Damian Sommer and Emily Carroll's The Yawhg

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by Leigh Alexander [01.29.14]
Continuing our Road to the IGF series of interviews with finalists, we talk to Damien Sommer about The Yawgh, a local multiplayer choose-your-own adventure game latticed with depth and beauty.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Art, Design, Exclusive, Video, IGF

Beyond the finalists: IGF 2014 Best In Narrative jury picks
by Alex Wawro [01.29.14]
We highlight the IGF 2014 entrants that earned at least one vote for the Best In Narrative award from an IGF juror, but didn't reach the critical mass of votes to become a finalist.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, IGF

Road to the IGF: Lazy 8 Studios' Extrasolar

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by Mike Rose [01.28.14]
As part of Gamasutra's Road to the IGF series, Rob Jagnow discusses how his love of ARGs shaped Extrasolar, and how he's been secretly terrified of how people will react to the game throughout development.
Console/PC, Design, Business/Marketing, Exclusive, Video, IGF

Road to the IGF: Brace Yourself Games' Crypt of the NecroDancer

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by Alex Wawro [01.27.14]
Kicking off Gamasutra's 2014 Road to the IGF series, Ryan Clark explains how "Thriller" influenced the design of NecroDancer, and why it's important to find the perfect beat you're building a rhythm game.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Business/Marketing, Exclusive, Video, IGF

Beyond the finalists: IGF 2014 Best In Audio jury picks
by Alex Wawro [01.14.14]
We highlight the IGF 2014 entrants that earned at least one vote for the Best In Audio award from an IGF juror, but didn't reach the critical mass of votes to become a finalist.
Console/PC, Indie, Audio, IGF

IGF 2014 organizers announce record Main Competition entrants 1
by Staff [10.24.13]
The organizers of the 16th annual Independent Games Festival are proud to announce that the event has once again seen record entries for its latest Main Competition.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, GDC, IGF

IGF China 2013 winners announced
by Brandon Sheffield [09.17.13]
The fifth annual IGF China has concluded, after some 250 entries were boiled down to a core 14 finalists across the main and student competitions. Here are the nine winning entries.
Indie, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, GDC China, IGF

IGF winner Hofmeier pays it forward for Porpentine's Howling Dogs

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by Leigh Alexander [03.29.13]
Cart Life's IGF booth was spraypainted and hijacked by another game -- thanks to Cart Life creator Richard Hofmeier himself. Learn about the Twine game that's "really dear" to him.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Art, Design, Exclusive, IGF

Road to the IGF: ATUM

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by John Polson [03.22.13]
NHTV Breda designers Marta Clavero Jimenez and Thomas Buijtenweg discuss their team's IGF 2013 student finalist ATUM, a puzzle platformer inside a point-and-click game attempting to break the fourth wall.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design, Production, Exclusive, Video, IGF

Road to the IGF: Michael Lee on mindful xp

by John Polson [03.21.13]
Carnegie Mellon student Michael Lee speaks about his team's mindful xp, a collection of prototypes with meaningful mechanics, interactions, and goals of evoking a particular theme or personal experience.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design, Production, Exclusive, Video, IGF

Road to the IGF: The Fullbright Company's Gone Home

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by Leigh Alexander [03.20.13]
Our Road to the IGF interview series talks to The Fullbright Company's Steve Gaynor about Gone Home, a first person exploration game that's earned an Excellence in Narrative nomination.
Console/PC, Programming, Art, Design, Exclusive, Video, IGF

Road to the IGF: LiquidSketch

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by Frank Cifaldi [03.15.13]
Nominated for a Technical Excellence award at the 2013 Independent Games Festival later this month, LiquidSketch is a unique iPad puzzle game employing impressive liquid physics that developer Tobias Neukom tells us was a beast to get right.
Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Design, Exclusive, Video, GDC, IGF

Road to the IGF: Tale of Tales' Bientot l'ete

by Leigh Alexander [03.14.13]
We talk to Tale of Tales about its Nuovo award-nominated Bientot l'ete, and how it aims to communicate the unwinnable nature of love and the raw ambivalence of meaningful human interaction.
Social/Online, Indie, Programming, Art, Design, Exclusive, IGF

Road to the IGF: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

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by Frank Cifaldi [03.13.13]
Developers Matt Hammill and Jamie Tucker tell us the history behind the frantic co-op space platformer/defense hybrid, which is nominated for an Excellence in Visual Arts award at the Independent Games Festival later this month.
Indie, Art, Design, Exclusive, Video, GDC, IGF

Road to the IGF: Anna Anthropy's Dys4ia

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by Leigh Alexander [03.12.13]
Our Road to the IGF series of interviews continues with a look at Anna Anthropy's Excellence in Narrative and Nuovo nominee Dys4ia, a poignant, personal game about hormone therapy and the self.
Indie, Programming, Art, Design, Exclusive, IGF

Road to the IGF: Guacamelee!

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by Frank Cifaldi [03.11.13]
DrinkBox, the team behind the open-world action platform game Guacamelee!, speaks to us about where the game from, its inspirations, and what went into its unique, IGF-nominated art style.
Indie, Design, Exclusive, GDC, IGF

Road to the IGF: Starseed Pilgrim

by Frank Cifaldi [03.08.13]
Droqen's Starseed Pilgrim is up for the coveted Excellence in Design award at the Independent Games Festival later this month. We talk to him about the game's origins, his collaborators, and some real-life gardening gone bad.
Indie, Design, Exclusive, Video, GDC, IGF

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