Din is a short experimental work which uses audio in a very novel manner, where each game lasts for only a couple of minutes and players are scored based on their listening ability. The story is centered around a laid-back character named Bill who is having a quiet walk in the park, but is soon followed by his friends and family who harasses him with their troubles, concerns and opinions. Being the friendly guy that he is, Bill must be attentive to their requests or risk upsetting and losing a couple of close buddies.
"We set out with Din to explore how powerful and complex our sense of hearing is, and to push players to learn to rely on it. We discovered that players were initially unaccustomed to doing this, so the first half or whole playthrough became overwhelming. However, after a couple of tries, or sometimes just the first try, players found themselves tracking 3, 5, even 8 conversations at the same time. On top of that, Din is really an allegory for our social lives. The more friends you have, the harder it is to really focus each one through the din of your social network." - Teddy
Name: Din
Developers: Teddy Diefenbach, Mansa Gory, Brian Lee
Platform: Windows
Size: 69.0 MB
UBM TechWeb (producer of Game Developer magazine, Gamasutra.com, and the Game Developers Conference) established the Independent Games Festival in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers.
The competition, now in its 13th year, awarded a total of nearly $50,000 in prizes to deserving indie creators in Main Competition and Student Competition categories at the IGF Awards Ceremony, held in March 2010 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, as one of the highlights of the Game Developers Conference.
The Independent Games Festival will return in March 2011 at GDC in San Francisco - look for more information soon. [More information...]
About The IGS
Featuring lectures, postmortems and roundtables from some of the most notable independent game creators around, the Independent Games Summit is a yearly event, with iterations thus far taking place in March 2007, February 2008, March 2009 and March 2010 at Game Developers Conference.
UBM TechWeb (which curates the IGF and runs GDC) plans to continue and grow the Independent Games Summit in subsequent years. [More information...]
