{"id":80825,"date":"2019-02-07T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/336225"},"modified":"2019-02-07T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:50:00","slug":"dont-miss-these-illuminating-interviews-with-the-igf-2019-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/07\/dont-miss-these-illuminating-interviews-with-the-igf-2019-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t miss these illuminating interviews with the IGF 2019 finalists!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights of the\u00a0Game Developers Conference<\/a>\u00a0is the IGF Pavilion, a showcase on the GDC Expo Floor where the year’s Independent Games Festival<\/a> award finalists gather to show off their remarkable work.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It’s a fantastic opportunity to take a break from your GDC schedule and see some innovative, trailblazing, and\u00a0just plain\u00a0interesting\u00a0<\/em>games played live, often with their creators present.<\/p>\n

To get a better sense of who you’ll meet and what you’ll play, check out Gamasutra’s ongoing\u00a0Road to the IGF, a series of brief interviews\u00a0with this year’s IGF finalists that delve into how (and why) they make games.<\/p>\n

They’ve already published interesting chats with about half of this year’s finalists, with the other half still to come, so now’s a great time to jump in and get caught up! Here’s what’s available\u00a0so far:<\/p>\n

\"\"Mirror Drop<\/em>\u00a0takes players to a puzzling world of endless mirrors and reflections, creating a\u00a0dizzying realm of repeating visions and colors into infinity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Singing is the only way to interact with the people and puzzles of\u00a0Wandersong<\/em>, tasking players with using their voice to improve the lives of those they meet.<\/p>\n

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levedad<\/em>\u00a0is an autobiographical game of long-exposure photography, but one that asks the player to bring their own personal meaning to the places and things they choose to capture in their lens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Seers Isle<\/em>\u00a0is a visual novel that explores player agency in the genre, casting them as an invisible character who must use choice to change her fate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Watch Me Jump<\/em>\u00a0turns a play of the WNBA into a piece of interactive fiction, having players shape a life and career through the choices they make for Audra, an all-star player rocked by scandal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game<\/em>\u00a0follows a nice amphibian detective to an\u00a0island of spooky mysteries (and cheerful animal friends).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Alto’s Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0takes players on a stunning sandboarding journey across shifting sands, gliding across striking landscapes and beautiful backdrops that hint at a world beyond the dunes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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ETHEREAL<\/em>\u00a0takes the player through a complex, puzzle-filled place without words, teaching them through its colorful visuals, peaceful goals, and thoughtful mechanisms<\/p>\n

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Forgotton Anne<\/em>\u00a0takes the player to a land of the items we’ve forgotten,\u00a0our discarded objects given striking life in a world built to evoke the feeling of an animated feature.<\/p>\n

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Sole<\/em>\u00a0takes players to vast cities bathed in darkness, having players unveil their presence, histories, and story with light.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Circle0<\/em>\u00a0is a game that’s designed to break down – an experience in incomprehensibilty\u00a0and chaos that grows more distorted and unpredictable with every interaction.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Appearing on the GDC 2019 Expo Floor\u00a0from March 20th\u00a0to the\u00a022nd, the Independent Games Festival Pavilion will give attendees the chance to play the nominated titles and meet the game creators. Along with the IGF Pavilion, developers can also take part in the Independent Games Summit (March 18th-19th), which highlights the best and brightest of indie development, featuring valuable discussions and networking opportunities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since its debut in 1999, the Independent Games Festival remains a platform that recognizes the efforts and artistic craft of some of the most beloved independent games in history, including revolutionary and memorable titles such as Quadrilateral Cowboy,\u00a0<\/em>Night in the Woods<\/em>, Her Story, Papers, Please<\/em>\u00a0and Fez, <\/em>among many others.<\/p>\n

For more details on\u00a0GDC 2019\u00a0visit the show’s\u00a0official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, or\u00a0RSS<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent company Informa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights of the\u00a0Game Developers Conference\u00a0is the IGF Pavilion, a showcase on the GDC Expo Floor where the year’s Independent Games Festival award finalists gather to show off their remarkable work. \u00a0It’s a fantastic opportunity to take a break from your GDC schedule and see some innovative, trailblazing, and\u00a0just plain\u00a0interesting\u00a0games played live, often […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}