CFP // Festival of Independent and Alternative Games

ALT+CTRL
Festival of Independent and Alternative Games
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PROPOSAL DEALINE MAY 31, 2004
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EXHIBITION DATES OCTOBER 5 - NOVEMBER 24, 2004
The Beall Center for Art and Technology
University of California Irvine

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

CONTACT : INDI @ UCI.EDU