Independent Games Festival

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FTL: Faster Than Light developer Subset Games at the IGF 2013
Fez developers with the IGF prize 2012
Aquaria voice actor Jenna Sharpe and developers Alec Holowka and Derek Yu on the reception of the IGF prize 2007

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the largest annual gathering of the independent video game industry.[1] Originally founded in 1998 to promote independent video game developers, and innovation in video game development by CMP Media,[2] later known as UBM Technology Group, IGF is now owned by Informa after UBM's acquisition.[3]

The IGF competition awards a total of $50,000 in prizes to independent developers in Main Competition and Student Competition categories and held around the same time as the Game Developers Choice Awards event.

From 2007 to 2010, there was a separate event called IGF Mobile for mobile phone games.[4]

  1. ^ Shiels, Maggie (March 26, 2009). "Indie game awards showcase future". Technology Reporter, BBC News, San Francisco. BBC. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  2. ^ "About the IGF", www.IGF.com.
  3. ^ Garrahan, Matthew (January 16, 2018). "Informa to buy exhibitions rival UBM for £4bn". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2022-12-10. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  4. ^ "Independent Games Festival Mobile". Archived from the original on 2011-01-31. Retrieved 2022-06-11.

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