Indie Fund, the new business model aimed at supporting new indie games, has gone live and is now accepting applications for developers who wish to be funded by the organization.
Sam Barlow, writer and lead designer of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle announced his first independent title, Her Story, which will release simultaneously on PC, Mac, iPhone and iPad on June 24th.
Her Story, as it says on the logo, "is a video game about a woman talking to the police", it sits players in front of a mothballed desktop computer and logs them into a police database. They search through hundreds of video clips that cover seven interviews from 1994 in which a woman is interviewed about her missing husband. Players explore the database by typing search terms then watch the clips where she speaks those words and piece together her story.
"The Group Indie Fund appears to be responsible for manipulating events at both IndieCade and IGF in order to maximize their profit margins on FEZ to the detriment of all the other Indie developers that entered the events looking to win the awards that FEZ received. Any publication that gave FEZ coverage due to these awards, or any customer who bought FEZ based on these awards (or the coverage of them through the media), seems to have also possibly been duped."
This some BS.These clowns are destroying our hobby.They need to be made an example of.
Did shit just hit the fan for Phil and his group of hipsters?
This is serious shit right here, I bet the #gamergate bs was created so this was overlooked.
If it wasn't for gamergate this would not have found out. Gamers have been doing more research then actual game journalists
Everything regarding this has been explained in the video below;
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
This is how f**king corrupt these people are. He basically shat all over his audience, called them entitled, misogynistic, racist... He went on to shitting on an aspiring Japanese developer during a conference (just because he asked a question), by saying Japanese games are terrible and they need "to learn more from American ones". And this happened during a conference where tons of people were watching all this. Then there's the "suck my d**k, choke on it!" thing on Twitter...
And all for f**king what? So he could cover his and his merry band of hipsters' corrupt asses.
@Blacktric
Thx for the link. If all of this information is true, this people most be held accountable for their actions, some major corruption going on.
How in the world can these people not recuse themselves as judges. If any judge will directly benefit from PRIZE money won at these events they should have recused themselves. This needs to be publicly done not behind the scenes, to keep the integrity of the concept.
This is beyond reprehensible!
Fez won this award and all its benefits (Which may have changed over the years but probably close to this).
Seumas McNally Grand Prize Winner receives:
Cash prize ($30,000)
Award Plaque
Three All-Access Passes to the 2014 Game Developers Conference
Mention in Game Developer magazine
Mention on Gamasutra.com
Press release coverage
A one-year limited use license to use a version of the official Independent Games Festival name and IGF Winner logo in promotional materials relating to their game entry.
If you have clout like this, you aren't really "indie" anymore. They are acting just as badly as the AAA developers.
After all Phil Fish's BS attacks on us. Always making us out to be the sub-human pieces of trash. Then his Captain-Save-A-Ho move to defend Zoe Quinn. I felt bad for him when watching Indie: The Movie, even though he looked like an angry jerk there and even at the time - I felt his partner that split from him back then probably had good reason. Now, it's just ridiculous how much of a hypocritical, disgusting idiot he's shown himself to be. Clear all these dirtbags out of the gaming scene in general.
Mike Bithell creator of the indie hit, Thomas was alone, toyed with the idea of a “Dragon’s Den” indie investment panel on twitter yesterday.
