The Independent Games Festival (IGF) has signed a deal with Microsoft to award one entrant to the event a massive boost on both the Xbox LIVE Arcade and Windows Phone platforms....

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With a $100 budget, Director Cullen Hoback set out to make a film. "I wanted to make something for nothing," he says wistfully. Hoback and his team worked at a summer camp program in exchange for shooting the film there and luckily, had food and shelter paid for. They shot on used tapes and used real people [...]

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With a $100 budget, Director Cullen Hoback set out to make a film. "I wanted to make something for nothing," he says wistfully. Hoback and his team worked at a summer...

Read More: How Netflix royally screwed over an indie filmmaker

The story is a common one: an idealist artist moves to a major urban center (say, New York City) where they expect to be discovered but then must walk the shakey tightrope of balancing their financial and artistic ambitions. This is a tale that's been well tread in film and literature but Art Wars, an indie game currently wrapping up a pledging campaign on Kickstarter, tells it in an interactive manner for the first time.Art Wars takes the form of an adventure game where success is measured by t [...]

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