The Independent Games Festival is kicking off 2018 by announcing the finalists for its annual award show. It runs alongside the Game Developers Conference industry event in San Francisco, where nominees will also get to showcase their work. It will announce winners on March 21, about halfway through GDC.
In recent years, indie games events have popped up around the world, such as A Maze in Johannesburg and BitSummit in Japan. The Los Angeles-based IndieCade festival just celebrated its 10th year, and Sega is sponsoring the Leftfield Collection indie showcase at the annual EGX festival. IGF was first to the fray 20 years ago. It hands out a number of awards, including the $30,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize, as well as the alt.ctrl.GDC Award for innovative alternative controllers.
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