Independent Game Festival. IndieCade. UC Santa Cruz CMPS 171 – Game Design Studio II courses.soe.ucsc.edu/courses/cmps171/Winter13/01 15 February 2013

UC SANTA CRUZ Upcoming deadlines  Friday, February 15 (today)  Team status report due, via team status report tool  Friday, February 22  Sprint 2 ends  7 full days until the end of the Sprint (including President’s Day holiday)

UC SANTA CRUZ Team meetings  Will not be meeting:  Militarium, Biogenesis: Monday is a holiday  No class on Monday, Feb. 18, President’s Day holiday  Will meet:  Tearable World (Tuesday, Feb. 19, 9am)  10 Days Left to Live (Tuesday, 10am)  No class on Friday, Feb. 22  Will meet Militarium 2-2:45pm, Biogenesis, 2:45-3:30pm

UC SANTA CRUZ Lab Cleanup Schedule  This week: 10 Days Left to Live  Next week: Biogenesis  Team duties:  Ensure overflowing trash cans are emptied to bin outside in 3 rd floor courtyard (anytime during week)  By 5pm Monday and 5pm Friday (unless things get out of control, then more often):  Pick up food containers, bottles, etc.  Pick up stray craft materials, pens, etc and return to drawers  Clean off tables in conference rooms and big circular table  Report any major soda/food spills to me, so we can call cleanup crews  Put controllers/game boxes/etc. away (tidy up game area)  Report any cleaning materials needed

UC SANTA CRUZ Upcoming Events  Jai Hudes, today, 5:00pm, Game Lab (new secret room)  Xperience – The Game  Very interesting example of using a game for improved personal introspection  Recommended  Brenda Romero, GDC Bootcamp  Thursday, February 28, 2013, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM  Location: Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)

UC SANTA CRUZ Independent Games Festival (IGF)  One of the most high-profile competitions for indie games  Held yearly with the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) in Spring  Goal is to be the “Sundance for Games”   Applications in fall  IndieCade is another   West coast is in the Fall  East coast is new, and in Spring  Deadline is May 30 ($80), or June 30 ($110)

UC SANTA CRUZ Class picks  Which games were most highly voted, after watching the gameplay trailers?  Student IGF 1.Zineth 2.Pulse 3.Knights of Pen and Paper 4.Back to Bed 5.Farsh  Grand Prize 1.FTL 2.(tie) Kentucky Route Zero, Little Inferno 3.Hotline Miami 4.Cart Life