Smithsonian highlights indie game makers with museum arcade

On the weekend of August 5, the Smithsonian American Art Museum Arcade will showcase 40 indie games at its third annual event in Washington, D.C. It’s free to the public and, along with showcasing indie games, it has an educational bent and will feature workshops and student work.

“The first year of the arcade was a local-developer-only show to test the idea of how we’d run such an event and that drew about 4,000 visitors,” said Chris Totten, one of the organizers of the event, in an email. “Last year, we opened it up to all U.S. developers and got international submissions and that show attracted 11,750 people.”