The Seattle Indies Blog

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Funded and Delivered: Best practices after Kickstarter

Seattle Indies and WIN Reactor present a Post-Kickstarter Panel of Indies! 12/17/2013 6:30 to 9 p.m. Where:  2820 Elliott Avenue Seattle, WA 98121 Cost:  Free **Edit: Video of this event can be found here. Join us for discussions exploring the potential pitfalls Indies face after Kickstarter success. The evening will cover the final push to product completion, fulfillment, surprises and liabilities. The panel includes Jordan Weisman, Jamie Fristrom, Alex Hogan and Jason B...

By Matthew Burns

Seattle Indies and 17-BIT present an Evening of Indie Demos

October 30th, 7PM at 17-BIT!  MAP Bring out your latest and greatest products to demo to the community and enjoy food and refreshments courtesy of Nintendo.  Works-in-progress, recently finished, game jam, or some amazing new game you just found and want the world to know about?  Bring it all! Contact Zach Aikman to reserve a slot on the big screen, bring those tablets and handhelds and hang out with the community! Join the event here on Facebook

By Matthew Burns

IGDA Seattle and Amazon.com Present: Industry Pioneer Al Lowe’s Leisure Time!

    Join Al Lowe this Wednesday for a lighthearted evening with a long view of our industry and where it’s been, crowdfunding, and the joys of being paid to do what you’d do for free. (But don’t tell anybody!)   Al Lowe Al Lowe entered the video game industry over three decades ago, working for Sierra Online during its glory years of the 80s and 90s. He served in many facets of game creation but is best known for creating Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist, Torin&rsquo...

By Matthew Burns

TONIGHT! @17-Bit, Seattle Indies September West Side Social

Come meet awesome indies, playtest products & get your social on! 7:00pm, 17-Bit Studios, 1534 1st Ave S, suite 500   Giant thanks to Jake & the crew at 17-Bit for hosting again!

By Matthew Burns

Seattle Indies and IGDA Seattle Present: Seattle Indies Expo 3!

  SIX3 will be held on Sunday, September 1st in the Bullitt Cabaret at the ACT Theater, adjacent to the Washington State Convention Center, home of PAX. A one day event exclusively for indie developers, SIX3 will be from 10 AM to 6 PM, followed by a private reception for indie presenters, press, and IGDA members only from 6 - 8 PM. Indie mobile devs are welcome to show their games for $5 on a phone or tablet if they don’t want or need a reserved space or table. If they want to go big, for $30 they can...

By Matthew Burns

House of Games accepting submissions!

HouseOgames a Seattle-based indie game incubator with a twist, announced that it is officially accepting applications for it’s program. The program is designed to help indie developers over the course of a full year by supplying them with living accommodations, workspace, business training and access to top level industry mentorship. Two veteran gaming professionals are holding down the fort at HouseOgames, which is focused on fostering the development of casual to mid-core multi platform games: Luke Burti...

By Matthew Burns