You are more like an artist that make games than a programmer? Or bored of the usual gaming things? Than take the opportunity and check in to those festivals. Get rich, get famous.
Competitions
- Gamma256 – Presented by Kokoromi
- Game maker Winter Competition at YoYo Games
- Ludum Dare 48 – 48 hours spreed game development compo
- Minigame Competition – Games in 4k and 1k – http://minigamecomp.org.uk
- International Mobile Gaming Awards – http://www.imgawards.com/
- Retro Remakes – http://www.retroremakes.com
- Social Impact Games Contest – Read intro at http://grandtextauto.org
- Swedish Game Awards – http://www.sga.to
- Super Friendship Club – Gamecoder-forum with regular competitions http://superfriendshipclub.com/
Festivals
- Amaze Festival – Berlin
- Art of Play – The Art of Play – Symposium and Arcade
- Do it Yourself Festival Zürich – http://www.diyfestival.ch
- Exposition Gamerz 02, Aix en Provence – http://gamerz02.blogspot.com
- Festival Emergences Paris – http://www.festival-emergences.info
- Future Play, Vancouver – http://www.futureplay.org/
- Gameworld – http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/gameworld
- Gossip08, Allgäu, Outdoor, Germany – Gossip08
- Independent Games Festival – http://www.igf.com
- Indiecadehttp://www.indiecade.com
- London Games Festival – http://www.londongamesfestival.co.uk
- Make Art – http://makeart.goto10.org
- Nextlevel Conference, Cologne – http://www.nextlevel-conference.org/
- Piksel – Festival for Free and Open Souce Audiovisual Software, Hardware and Art – http://www.piksel.no/
- Playware – http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/gameworld/playware/
- Robot250 Pittsburgh, USA – Robot250
- Wired Nextfest – http://www.wirednextfest.com
- ZXZW – Festival for Independent Culture – Tilburg Netherlands – http://www.zxzw.nl
Magazines
- Indiegames – http://www.indiegames.com/blog
- The Independent Gaming Source – http://www.tigsource.com