I'm sure some of you know about Indie Games Festival (http://www.igf.com). Passionate teams submit their creations for open competition, small monetary rewards and most importantly - public acknowledgment of their skills. This can rocket-jump their carrier in games development industry. To me their "independent" theme is quite inline with Pandora console.
My idea is this: maybe it would be worth to openly promote a possibility to participate in next IGF event by developing a unique game(s) on Pandora console!
Good points:
* For Pandora console: A lot of indie developers, publishers, press would learn about Pandora consoles.
* For players: Several (guessing here) games developed possibly exclusively for Pandora. Rare opportunity to get quality possibly for free!
* For developers: Fame, Glory, Money and Women... (yes, I'm a bit exaggerating here, but you get the point)
Bad points:
* Judging by this years competition next deadline would be 2010 November 1[sup]st[/sup]. This is quite reasonable, but having in mind we don't have Pandoras in our hands - it's a bit worrying.
* According to the rules, judges need 10 units of hardware to test-play the games (http://www.igf.com/rules.html). I quote "[...]along with ten (10) sets of any special equipment and hardware, (e.g., graphics cards, 3D glasses, etc.) necessary to play the Entered Game[...]". I doubt any developer could do that alone. So I guess support from Pandora creators would be necessary here. (I'm not sure here, but I would assume that IGF judges would return those 10 units after the event. Yet they could be contacted directly regarding that)
My questions are following:
1. Do you like this idea? Maybe it has some flaws I missed?
2. If you are a games developer - would you seriously consider to participate?
My idea is this: maybe it would be worth to openly promote a possibility to participate in next IGF event by developing a unique game(s) on Pandora console!
Good points:
* For Pandora console: A lot of indie developers, publishers, press would learn about Pandora consoles.
* For players: Several (guessing here) games developed possibly exclusively for Pandora. Rare opportunity to get quality possibly for free!
* For developers: Fame, Glory, Money and Women... (yes, I'm a bit exaggerating here, but you get the point)
Bad points:
* Judging by this years competition next deadline would be 2010 November 1[sup]st[/sup]. This is quite reasonable, but having in mind we don't have Pandoras in our hands - it's a bit worrying.
* According to the rules, judges need 10 units of hardware to test-play the games (http://www.igf.com/rules.html). I quote "[...]along with ten (10) sets of any special equipment and hardware, (e.g., graphics cards, 3D glasses, etc.) necessary to play the Entered Game[...]". I doubt any developer could do that alone. So I guess support from Pandora creators would be necessary here. (I'm not sure here, but I would assume that IGF judges would return those 10 units after the event. Yet they could be contacted directly regarding that)
My questions are following:
1. Do you like this idea? Maybe it has some flaws I missed?
2. If you are a games developer - would you seriously consider to participate?