By Jim Rossignol on August 9th, 2012 at 10:00 pm.
Indies can now submit their game to the IGF. The IGF Committee report: “Following over 850 entries to IGF 2012, the Festival has expanded each existing category to six finalists, all of which will be available in playable form at a larger, expanded IGF Pavilion on the GDC show floor, and will compete for nearly $60,000 in prizes.” $30,000 of that is for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. Really, though, it’s about the prestige of being a game development hero.
Submissions close on October 17th, 2012 at 11:59pm PDT. So hurry!
09/08/2012 at 22:22 Jams O'Donnell says:
Will you be entering, Mr. R?
10/08/2012 at 11:41 Hvr says:
IGF 2013 : “The Grand Prize goes to… ‘FEZ’“!
YEAH!
09/08/2012 at 22:37 rustybroomhandle says:
So far no bickering, just mild snarking in the Twitterverse.
09/08/2012 at 22:38 TillEulenspiegel says:
For prestige, wouldn’t you need someone besides the winners to care about who won the award? An Oscar it ain’t.
09/08/2012 at 22:49 Terragot says:
Too true, there’s a hell of a lot of nepotism in these awards and for what? Rock Star you aint, you’re just some over-hyped hipster who the untalented and unoriginal press are going to write about because they can’t objectify games into print.
Roll on the ego party.
Also.
“Suck on my dick, choke on it.”
09/08/2012 at 23:36 CrookedLittleVein says:
I may regret this but, what exactly is this “Suck on my dick, choke on it.” in reference to?
No, I’m not searching for that on Google. Might raise a few eyebrows.
10/08/2012 at 00:04 Hoaxfish says:
I believe it was the response Fez’s Phil Fish gave on twitter in response when people questioned him winning twice with the same game
http://thewiredfish.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/fez-creator-talks-smack-about-japanese-games-major-downplay-on-twitter/
10/08/2012 at 01:07 CrookedLittleVein says:
Huh. What an ass.
Thank you for the info!
10/08/2012 at 04:08 pqmnwsd6 says:
Here’s a good guide on some of the more popular ones to pick from.
http://lifehacker.com/5529133/five-best-password-managers
09/08/2012 at 22:55 Hoaxfish says:
Fez needs a hat trick
09/08/2012 at 22:58 rustybroomhandle says:
Maybe they can enter the patch that they could not submit to XBLA.
10/08/2012 at 00:28 BooleanBob says:
Yeowch. So much burn, it went all the way back around to cold.
10/08/2012 at 06:34 Gnoupi says:
Maybe he will announce a “special pc remastered edition”.
09/08/2012 at 23:03 Gasmask Hero says:
Why should I care?
The only reason that such awards exist is to provide a measure of a given developers esteem amongst other developers. This does not equate to wider recognition, is not a measure of any given games quality within it’s genre and does not drive sales.
I do not base my purchases on whether or not any given game is an IGF finalist. I do not know if any of the games that I own have IGF awards and to be honest, as stated, I do not care.
09/08/2012 at 23:23 zeroskill says:
Thank you for letting us know you don’t give a crap, really, thank you, a lot.
09/08/2012 at 23:46 Nick says:
If it helps, I don’t care either.
10/08/2012 at 01:09 CrookedLittleVein says:
I’m Spartacus!
I mean, I also do not care.
09/08/2012 at 23:05 hemmingjay says:
IGF is a total wank! Multiple “winners” have never finished their games even 2-3 years later(I’m looking at you particularly Monaco). Until they stop treating this as a hipster exercise in masturbation consider me and the world at large, unimpressed and uninterested.
09/08/2012 at 23:22 BurningPet says:
I think the main advantage of it is the exposure really, plus, i bet a nominees in there have much easier life at getting into steam.
10/08/2012 at 00:13 hemmingjay says:
If you were to enter Towns I am sure you would get much support.
09/08/2012 at 23:48 caddyB says:
How good is Fez anyway?
09/08/2012 at 23:57 Mo says:
My GOTY so far.
09/08/2012 at 23:58 RobF says:
Very good.
10/08/2012 at 00:56 DuddBudda says:
to paraphrase idle thumbs:
a mediocre platformer with an obsfuscated Myst waiting within
in my own experience:
my 360 was bust, and it was not worth buying the replacement just for Fez
10/08/2012 at 11:56 MadTinkerer says:
It doesn’t matter because it’s not out for PC yet. I consider all XBLA games to be PC games that are still in development. So the final version of Fez isn’t out yet, and all “reviews” are previews.
See also Retro City Rampage, if they’ll actually finish it this year. Been on my Steam wish list for at least two months now.
10/08/2012 at 02:42 pakoito says:
Pay 95$ for a judge not to play your game more than 5 minutes. Or at all if there’s any error during installation.
10/08/2012 at 03:29 noodlecake says:
Hmm… I think they are definitely useful. I’ve never seen a bad game be a finalist and I always check out the games that get nominated. Most years I discover a fair few interesting projects through the awards although the last one was very disappointing for that, especially with Fez winning again. Who did that benefit? Anybody who might be excited about Fez would have heard about it by then…