Indie Development: Exploring the Fringe Unclassified 15+
Tuesday 26 March 2013, 7.00pm
Full $15 Concession $12 ACMI Member $11
Take gaming exploration to the next level at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) this March when Re:Play returns for 2013.
On Tuesday 26 March, Re:Play will explore what it means to be an independent developer at the fringes of the mainstream and beyond in Indie Development: Exploring the Fringe.
Away from the corporations and the studios, the economic imperatives and the metacritic, the focus group and the accepted wisdom, are developers intent on being truly independent – and, in doing so, exploring their own personal passions, art and experiences?
Being independent means more than not relying on someone else to pay the bills. It also carries with it a certain aesthetic, a certain outlook and a certain way of exploring the fringes of being creative. Just as the major film studios set up independent divisions, so has the idea of what it means to be an independent game developer initiated the process of being co-opted by the industrial system, turning it into something distinctly softer, safer and perhaps more palatable.
The panel will convene for a night of discussion, game play and live music as we set out to map the outer fringes of game development, far from the mainstream, and step beyond the known into what might lie beyond.
Co-curated by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Freeplay, Re:Play is a series of talks about videogames and everything else features live music, musings and memorabilia.
The Re:Play program brings together a host of game developers, critics, writers, academics and other industry experts as they explore questions of convergence, play and what gaming culture means today.
For more information and to book, www.acmi.net.au