IndieCade 2014

Indie Games Festival.

From the website:

The IndieCade Festival is the biggest independent game celebration in the United States. This premiere event is held each October in the Los Angeles Area and is open to the industry and to the public.

Events October 9th – 12th, 2014 include a professional conference track, business networking, social events, tournaments and entertainment, as well as family-focused activities, meet-and-greets with game creators, hands-on gameplay with more than 150 top independent games.

IndieCade offers a unique opportunity to play and preview the latest innovative indie games of all types and rub shoulders with the creators of the newest games, as well as legends from across the industry.

Conference

Conference Sessions

“IndieCade 2014: Communities, Cliques and Cultures.

As we looked back across the months since IndieCade 2013, and as we looked forward to IndieCade 2014, we couldn’t help but reflect on the state of our community. We quickly realized we were talking about communities—overlapping cliques, cultures, groups and mindsets—that overlap here at IndieCade.

An important part of maintaining a community is understanding where the community has come from so that we can understand where its going. These reflections enable us to honor those that got us here, avoid mistakes of the past or other industries, as well as to build a vision of the future to which we should all work to move toward.

In putting together this year’s conference, there are a few conversations we hope to help focus and maybe even progress. Things like celebrating our diversity of makers and games. Finding ways for more of us to make games a sustainable enterprise. Sharing our practices and games with one another and the larger public. Understanding the impact indie games have had so we can begin to see where we can go.

Come, play, chat and make games with us. Let’s get inspired and chart the course of indie games!

Naomi Clark, John Sharp & Akira Thompson
Co-Chairs, IndieCade Conference 2014”