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They can change your notion of what you would expect a video game to be. >> IndieCade is really aiming at, and in some ways already is, the Sundance of Indie game community. I wanna be that brand that you think of when you're like, " Oh, I want a new experimental game. I want something artistic and interesting in a game. I'm gonna go see what IndieCade show this year. >> IndieCade is really about a vision to promote independent game makers and to bring a highlight to what's the cutting edge of the game industry. It's really the place for game makers and for future game makers, and for publishers and for people who are interested in supporting independent games to come together. And most of all, what we do is brand a spotlight to some of the most innovative games each year. >> We wanna help bring these games to a larger public audience that we think is interested in them. But one of the really big things is that if you're someone who makes things, you want to make them to be something. You need a place to show your work, to share it with people. I'm gonna make this so I can submit it to IndieCade, encourages people who make games. >> I think that most people think that videogames are either like a mind craft because I think that that's kind of swapped like it's part of a generation or just a very kind of hard- core game. So they don't think that they think about games that are, for instance, a poem or a personal statement or a horror story or picking flowers. I mean, they think that game company is such a good example of taking fearful moments and ideas and turning them into games and translating that so people can say, " Wow, there's a game about picking a flower ?" >> There's a huge growth right now in which you might call reflective games or games that are relaxing, games that are driven constantly to achieve more and more points, but are instead about exploring open spaces that are interesting and engaging that you can interact with, but are little less goal driven. One of my favorite examples of this is Dear Esther, which is a game we showed long before anyone else. Then, four years after we showed Dear Esther, we have an amazing set of games submitted to our festival that we showed this last year that are in this style. Gone Home was a huge success by the Fullbright Company in this last year. It is following sort of the charge that's being made here. By helping expose the first experiments in this field, we encourage people to develop essentially whole new genres of games. >> So we've seen independent games just like Sweep really pushing into the mainstream. They are making such a big difference on all of the consoles now. They are kind of the differentiator. And there are so many ideas that have kind of yet to evolve. 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