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Can Game Developer Unrest Lead to Revolution?
Bakajin writes "Greg Costikyan's blog article A Specter is Haunting Gaming speaks in coarse language about "despair" in the independent game developing community. He says that despite the fact that no Independent Game Festival title "has ever gone on to major publication and success... 10,000 geeks... would just love to do what the IGF guys are doing... work on something you believe in, not churn out the next big-budget piece of crap." I can't help but read that and think that it represents a huge opportunity for a new game machine that lowers the bar for entry and has a unique revenue model. However, is the story of Indrema a prophesy? Is Infinium just vapor? Is there any other solution?" -
Independent Games Festival Winners Announced
aheitner writes "The winning games at the first ever Independent Games Festival have been announced. The Grand Prize and Audience Choice awards both went to Fire and Darkness, one of the two Linux games among the finalists. Other winners were: Visual Art: Crime Cities, Game Design: Resurrection, and Audio and Programming: Terminus "