Watch the IGF & GDC Awards Show
Gamespot has a streaming video of the entire IGF and GDC awards show for 2007.

I only intended to watch the IGF portion of the awards show from GDC this year, but I found myself sucked in and watching the full hour-and-forty-some-odd-minutes of it (while puttering around in Gimp and Blender trying to actually --- you know, MAKE a game).

In particular, I really enjoyed the two marriage proposals, Sam & Max doing the indie commentary, the Mega 64 skits (particularly the "I love you" skit), Richard "Lord British" Garriott's tribute to Shigeru Miyamoto, and Miyamoto's Lifetime Achievement speech.

You know, if the Academy Awards were this entertaining (after the introduction), I might actually bother watching them. Maybe the Oscar nominees should start wearing jeans, T-shirts, and funky scarves. And restrict their acceptance speeches to war whoops, marriage proposals, and/or colorful four-letter expressions.

I almost felt embarassed for the Capcom guy accepting the awards on behalf of the Okami team. As probably everyone in the room knew that Capcom had shut down the development team, Clover Studio, last fall, he understandably kept his comments extremely short.

The awards show also educated me on how many very cool games there are out there - both indie and mainstream - that I have not played yet.

Maybe this is something only of entertainment value to game developers. But I really enjoyed it, and if you are interested, you check it out HERE.

Have fun.

Labels: Indie Evangelism, Mainstream Games

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