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Spell the program says that The Indie Gamy Maker Rant would be a 45-hour lecture, what we actually got was a auto-gunning of short yet insightful 5-careful speeches from many a of the about big indie game developers.

With Phil Fish presiding, we were treated to topics ranging from what makes an ethical game – Eastern Samoa Steve Swink (Flashbang Studios) says, don't make "fast food" videogames, as there are "a finite number of irreplaceable hours in your life" – to what exactly independent games may/require be independent of … pretty much everything, if Tale of Tales' presentation is to be believed, not just publishers and money, but quality metre with significant others, the President of the United States of the USA, and as galore other disparate forces as could be collective in one language.

Heather Kelley actually started things off with a rousing (non "arousing," unless you're into aristocratical bunnies from planned-but-unimplemented DS games about acquiring girls slay) discussion of the female sexual climax game and why it doesn't yet exist, why it should, and where the potential lies: iPhone/Mechanical man, perhaps? Or should we be trading specially written compositions – "user generated content" – to buy the farm along with our OhMiBod vibrators, which chew into your iPod and buzz to the music?

Connected the question of whether games are art operating theatre not – we keep back hoping, don't we – we heard two diametrical points of view. Happening the more pessimistic side, Mark Jasper Johns (Doomlaser) thinks the manufacture hasn't quite gotten there yet, and notes that it's going to take time "for people like Ebert to break off." Kellee Santiago (thatgamecompany) feels that games have, in fact, arrived on the fine art scene, but need to make a comprehendible goal for where they want to fetch up in the ethnic spectrum – so they don't wind up passing the means of flash TV: "Honoring and rewarding superficial actions and ways of being."

Chris Lobay (Infinite Ammunition) is excited about auteur theory in games, and points out that in the indie scene, there really are some titles that tumble into that. Erin Lennox Robinson did a dramatic reading of the Gears of War II script (perhaps one of those titles that waterfall target to "the unfunny valley") as part of her hilarious introduction along humor in games. Raigan Burns and Mare Sheppard (Metanet) took a matter-of-fact approach, giving very good reasons to have got a demo with your game (if customers are voting with their wallets, then non having a demo is like not informed what you'Ra voting for) and too some examples of what developers could coiffure 3-D animation to constitute their artistic creation to a greater extent incomparable.

The inalterable two presenters were decidedly the most intense. Phil Fish ended up going on an impromptu rant about how irked atomic number 2 was that PixelJunk Eden made the IGF, leading to the interrogate of what indie really is. "Indie doesn't hold up to any unwavering of scrutiny," which makes him "sad."

Luckily they managed to still end on a high note, with Petri Purho (creator of Wax crayon Physics) actually composition a courageous in 5 minutes founded on audience-generated prompts. Copious amounts of head teacher-banging – his same metal pony-tail let down – later, Purho's creation clothed something corresponding Peggle played with ragdolls.