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IndieCade East re-enters New York's Museum of the Moving Image
IndieCade East will be held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York, for the second year running, this time from February 14 - 16. IndieCade East includes seminars and panels from high-profile indie developers, academics and journalists, plus seminars, an eSports competition and Night Games East, an outdoors exhibition of physically interactive games. Keynote speakers this year include QWOP creator Bennett Foddy and Tale of Tales co-founder Aureia Harvey. Both QWOP and Tale of Tales' The Path are part of the Indie Essentials exhibition in the museum through March, which showcases 26 indie games including Gone Home, Braid, Kentucky Route Zero, N., Quadrilateral Cowboy and Spelunky. The festival's Show & Tell space allows developers with full access passes to show off their games in two-hour slots on February 15 or 16. Sign ups are available here. Among all of the indie devs, IndieCade East will feature booths from Sony with the PlayStation 4 and Vita, plus Oculus Rift and Facebook. Festival passes are on sale now, $100 through January 31. From February 1, passes will be $125. Individual days run $45 for Friday, $55 for Saturday including access to Night Games East, and $45 for Sunday.
New York celebrates a decade of independent design
The definition of "Indie Game" has changed over the last decade. The term originally referred to games created by developers and distributed independently, without the aid of a publishing partner. In the old days that meant game makers were responsible for pressing CDs, printing manuals, and pushing product to retailers. Over the last ten years, that process has changed drastically; digital distribution, crowdfunding and social media allow "indie" games to have multi-million dollar budgets and pre-sell to customers who never need to set foot in a store. Indie games have come a long way, but have humble beginnings. At New York's Museum of The Moving Image, that humble spirit is on display at a new exhibit: Indie Essential – 25 Must-Play Games.
New York artist fashions dead drop from dying hardware, mounts DVD burner in city wall
The optical drive may be making its exit in the world of personal computing, but at least it seems to still have a place in artistic architecture. Aram Bartholl -- the man behind New York City's infamous USB dead drops -- has installed a DVD burner into the side of the Museum of the Moving Image to promote HOT, an art exhibition described as "a group show about video that is not video." Passersby who pop in a blank DVD-R will be rewarded with a digital copy of the show and the satisfaction of finally having something to do with their aging stash of unused optical media. Just how do you install PC hardware in a museum wall? Drill an enormous hole, of course -- check out a video of the installation for yourself after the break.
