Submissions

IndieCade Submissions NOW OPEN!

IndieCade was established to create vibrant festivals and showcases dedicated to independent games and open to the public. It is our goal to showcase exciting and innovative new work, host productive networking environments, hold important discussions, and have a lot of fun.

IndieCade invites independent game artists and designers from around the world to submit interactive media of all types. Work-in-progress is encouraged.

A diverse jury of industry leaders will select entries for finalists and top prizes at the IndieCade 2010 Festival. All entries for the Festival will also receive consideration for presentation at IndieCade Europe.

Gamemakers and their teams are supplied with passes to all the events they are selected and all related IndieCade social events. It is IndieCade's ultimate goal to bring the eye of the public and industry to your games.

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Submission Process

Submissions are now open and will close June 20, 2010.

All submissions require the regular $45 submission fee.

If you have a discount code you may apply only one code per entry.

Please note that all submission fees are used specifically and entirely to cover the costs associated with processing your submission.

To submit your game you will follow the process outlined below:

1. Fill out the online entry form.
2. Agree to terms and conditions.
3. Submit the processing fee.
4. Upload, postmark, or supply link for your game by midnight June 20, 2010.

You can save and edit your submission as much as you want.

Once you hit the submit button, you may continue to update your submission until the deadline, June 20, 2010, at which point all submissions will close and no further changes may be made to your submission.

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Eligibility

To be eligible for IndieCade, your game must not have funding from a major publisher (for a list of major publishers see http://www.theesa.com/about/esa_members.php) You can have other deals with these publishers; your game just can't. Your game can have funding from other sources, including investments, grants, crowd sourcing or other funding apparatus. Submission to or inclusion in other festivals does not preclude eligibility in any way. There is no age requirement for submission.

IndieCade has an inclusive submissions policy and invites submission of all styles and genres of games, including PC, browser-based, casual, puzzle, mobile, ARGs, Big Games and installation-based games (submitted via video if not playable on-site), mods (provided they conform to game engine licensing agreements), serious games, activist games, art games, virtual worlds and "sandbox" style games, and more! We also welcome student games and games developed by universities, schools and non-profit organizations. All entries should have a digital component, but hybrid games are not only welcome, but encouraged. Innovation is the name of the game.

Works in progress are permitted and encouraged, but they should include at least one finished, playable level.

All game content and copyrighted material must be fully owned by the designers/developers; if outside material is used, legal permission must be secured or your game will be disqualified.

If you plan to submit a work that is on a non-standard game operating system (e.g., Linux, Atari), please plan to submit review hardware and have a representative on-site to be responsible for installation, or to supply hardware with the game fully installed to the Festival.

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Submission Schedule

All games may be updated until the deadline, at which point all submissions have closed, at midnight PST on June 20, 2010 . Submissions will be confirmed within one week of completion.

Entries will be selected by a diverse jury consisting of game designers, artists, curators and academics.

Finalists will be contacted by August 15, 2010. All entrants are informed of their games status before any official announcement is made. Rejection notices will be accompanied with feedback from the jurors.

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