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Boston Festival of Indie Games Announces BostonFIG Game Jam
Adobe, Corona Labs, Skillz and Newgrounds Join Forces to Support Jam
August 21, 2013 ---Cambridge, MA— The Boston Festival of Indie Games today announced open registration for the
second annual BostonFIG Game Jam, taking place at the festival on September 14th on the MIT campus in Cambridge. Cosponsors Adobe, Corona Labs, Skillz and Newgrounds are supporting this year’s game jam. The BostonFIG Game Jam
starts at 9 am and ends at 7 pm. Teams can register online for free at http://bostonfig.com/game-jam/.
The BostonFIG Game Jam is a chance for amateur and professional game developers alike to come together and
make original games from start to finish in just a handful of hours during the festival. Participants will pitch ideas, form small
teams and collaborate to produce their games from concept to a final, playable game. Team will then present their resulting
games to festival-goers during the BostonFIG closing ceremonies.
Participants are required to bring their own computers and tools for designing and building games. The game jam
directors will provide the teams with a theme or abstract game concept, then ideas will be brainstormed during the early part
of the jam. Games are then showcased in the BostonFIG main theater for all fest attendees to check out!
Darren Torpey, fest game jam co-director and organizer of Boston Game Jams, offers, “The BostonFIG game jam is
a great way to try out new skills and techniques for making games, stretch your creative muscles, and feel a sense of
accomplishment from having completed a game you can show and play. We encourage game developers to try it out.”
Greg Kinneman, fest game jam co-director and gameplay programmer, adds “Last year’s jam was a huge success.
Nearly twenty-five participants made up six teams, with each of the six teams creating a playable game. This year, we expect
more than triple the participation, with up to twenty teams and more than seventy game developers.”
The 2nd annual Boston Festival of Indie Games will be held on Saturday, September 14, 2013 at the Stratton Student
Center and the Johnson Athletic Center on the MIT campus. A celebration of independent game development in a variety of
media and genres, Boston Festival of Indie Games is free and open to the public. Festival attendees play video games,
tabletop games and live action roleplaying (LARP) games in a casual, inclusive environment, plus attend film screenings and
keynote talks. To register to attend and to receive regular festival updates, visit www.BostonFIG.com.
ABOUT THE BostonFIG PARTNERS:
Title sponsors include Unreal Technology, Unity and New Leaf Legal. Gold sponsors include Adobe, Ad Magic,
Guidebook, Harmonix, IndieGameStand, Microsoft, Muzzy Lane, NAVGTR, Pandemonium Books & Games and Scirra.
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Additional sponsors include Corona Labs, CritSuccess, Desura, Duracell Powermat, Gameblyr, Gamewright, GitHub,
Hutong Games, MocoSpace, MoGa, Nokia, NYU Steinhardt, Proletariat, HappyGiant, Mindgrub, Darren Shield Esq., Skillz,
The Game Crafter, The Unallied and TriplePoint PR. Media partners include Comcast Spotlight, Boston Globe, CBS
Radio/AMP 103.3 FM, DIGBoston, Polygon and Yelp!. Organization and community partners include the City of Cambridge,
Autodesk Animation User Group Association of Boston, Board Game Design & Prototype Circle, Boston HTML 5 Game
Developers Group, Boston Indies, Boston Post Mortem, Boston Unity Group, Entertainment Consumers Association, and the
Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI). Service partners include Aqua Vita Creative, BeEpic Productions, Dapper
Pixel, Lantana Games, MIT Game Lab, Snowrunner Productions, ThemePark Studios and WonderCraft.
About Boston Festival of Indie Games (www.bostonfig.com):
The Boston Festival of Indie Games is a celebration of independent game development with emphasis on the New
England and neighboring regions. The Boston Festival of Indie Games seeks to support and showcase the efforts of
independent game developers by providing a free public event that encourages attendees to share and interact with games
in various media, including video games, location-based games and tabletop games. Produced under the non-profit
auspices of BeEpic, a Boston location-based games production group, the Boston Festival of Indie Games is focused on
creating an intersection between community, academic and independent interests in game play.
Press can now register to attend Boston Festival of Indie Games!: http://bostonfig2013press.eventbrite.com
To schedule an interview or for more festival info, please contact Elicia Basoli, Boston Festival of Indie Games
publicist, at press@bostonfig.com or 617-877-7497. More info is also available at www.bostonfig.com.
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