2010 Independent Games Festival Gets Record Main Competition Entries
The organizers of the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival -- the longest-running and largest festival relating to independent games worldwide -- are proud to announce record entry numbers for IGF 2010's Main Competition, for which entries closed last night.
This year's Main Competition -- just one of the three IGF competitions taking place this year -- amassed 306 game entries, many of them new titles from leading indie developers.
Information, screenshots and videos on each of the IGF Main Competition entries are now available on IGF.com. This total entry tally comprises 35% more games than last year's record 226 Main Competition entries, itself a 30% increase on the previous year -- showing the continuing popularity of independent games and the IGF.
This year's IGF entries will be checked and distributed to the more than 150 notable industry judges for evaluation, before finalists are announced in January 2010 and winners awarded at the IGF ceremony during Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco next March.
IGF 2010 organizers are reminding that games are due for submission in the free to enter Student Showcase category by November 15th, 2009, and entries to the IGF Mobile competition -- encompassing iPhone, mobile phone, PSP, DS, Android and other handheld games -- are due by December 1st, 2009.
Comments
So much competition this year :(. I was looking through the entrants and saw Submachine 6! I've been waiting for months for this to be released and I find out about it like this lol :P. You guys should check out the Submachine series if you like point and click games and you haven't tried them.
Anyway, good luck fellow entrants!
*goes off to play Submachine*
Posted by: Jonathan DeLong | November 3, 2009 2:42 AM
Holy shit.
Limbo.
LIMBO!
Posted by: Sergio | November 3, 2009 10:50 AM
Submachine: Haha, yeah Mateusz almost missed the Deadline. I had to remind him. Apparently, he isn't so focused on competitions. But It's nice to see him finally take part after all.
Posted by: Krystian Majewski | November 3, 2009 2:53 PM
*shares Sergio's excitement*
LIMBO!!! :D
Posted by: Hauke | November 3, 2009 9:55 PM
What's up with Snapshot? It used to look great, but that new screenshot looks awful.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 4, 2009 12:14 AM
You have no idea how happy I was to see that Limbo is still with us.
It's been years, but it's still a game people haven't forgotten.
Hope it does well in the competition!
Posted by: Erika | November 28, 2009 5:01 PM