After feedback from indies, Google announces Indie Games Festival for September

Indie developers have another reason to gather on the West Coast.

Google has revealed that it is throwing the Indie Games Festival in San Francisco on September 24. The company came up with this concept after listening to feedback from its indie partners. The event has a number of core goals. Google wants developers to meet their fans as well as influential people from sites like YouTube. Studios can also use this as a chance to get feedback from players in real time. And this is also a chance for developers to talk about improving discoverability on the Google Play app market. Mobile gaming is a $36.9 billion business, which makes up the bulk of spending on both iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.