Independent Gaming Competitions and Festivals
You are more like an artist that make games than a programmer? Or bored of the usual gaming things? Than take the opportunity and check in to those festivals. Get rich, get famous.
Competitions
- B-Game Competition - Presented by TIGSource
- Gamma256 - Presented by Kokoromi
- Game maker Winter Competition at YoYo Games
- Ludum Dare 48 - 48 hours spreed game development compo -
- Minigame Competition - Games in 4k and 1k - http://minigamecomp.org.uk
- Retro Remakes - http://www.retroremakes.com
- Social Impact Games Contest - Read intro at http://grandtextauto.org
- Swedish Game Awards - http://www.sga.to
Festivals
- Art of Play - The Art of Play - Symposium and Arcade
- Do it Yourself Festival Zürich - http://www.diyfestival.ch
- Exposition Gamerz 02, Aix en Provence - http://gamerz02.blogspot.com
- Festival Emergences Paris - http://www.festival-emergences.info
- Gameworld - http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/gameworld
- Independent Games Festival - http://www.igf.com
- London Games Festival - http://www.londongamesfestival.co.uk
- Make Art - http://makeart.goto10.org
- Piksel - Festival for Free and Open Souce Audiovisual Software, Hardware and Art - http://www.piksel.no/
- Playware - http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/gameworld/playware/
- Wired Nextfest - http://www.wirednextfest.com
- ZXZW - Festival for Independent Culture - Tilburg Netherlands - http://www.zxzw.nl
Magazines
- Indiegames - http://www.indiegames.com/blog
- The Independent Gaming Source - http://www.tigsource.com



