Festival of Independent and Alternative Games

Due day is coming. June 1st.

ALT+CTRL fills a vital niche by providing a juried venue outside the mainstream game industry to showcase the latest independent games to both publishers and the general public. For sponsors it is an opportunity to show their support for indpendent game developers, artists and modders who are trying to push the envelope of what games are and can be. The event will also give sponsors exposure to a projected audience of over 2500 indy developers, game industry publishers, and game fans.

Similar to what the Sundance Film Festival does for filmmakers, ALT+CTRL seeks to cultivate a vibrant independent game community, and bring both the game industry and the general public new and novel applications in game design, game genres, methodologies and approaches to game play.

ALT+CTRL will include the following components:

Exhibition of independent games presented on customized game machines, plus game art related performances
Public screening of "machinima" (films made "on location" in computer games)
Conference on game design and culture, featuring creative leaders from the game industry, artists and independent game developers, academics, cultural theorists, and festival jurors (streamed and archived online)
Outreach to local middle and high school students
Online exhibition archive and catalog, including papers and proceedings from the conference
If you think you have something that fits this description and deserves to be shown, here's our CALL FOR SUBMISSION.

http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/gamelab/events/alt_ctrl_04.html