{"id":652,"date":"2010-01-04T23:26:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=652"},"modified":"2010-01-04T23:26:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:26:07","slug":"igf-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/01\/igf-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Finalists Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igf.com\/02finalists.html\">The 2010 Independent Games Festival finalists have been announced.<\/a> Especially interesting to me are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igf.com\/2010\/01\/2010_igf_nuovo_jury_releases_f.html\">finalists and honorable mentions for the IGF Nuovo Award,<\/a> an award intended to &#8220;honor abstract, shortform, and unconventional game development which advances the medium and the way we think about games.&#8221; My collaborator, Ian Bogost, has a game in the finals: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igf.com\/php-bin\/entry2010.php?id=313\"><i>A Slow Year,<\/i><\/a> a suite of four 1k games for one of his, and my, favorite platforms &#8230; which means that he&#8217;ll be brining an Atari 2600 to GDC this year to display his wares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 Independent Games Festival finalists have been announced. Especially interesting to me are the finalists and honorable mentions for the IGF Nuovo Award, an award intended to &#8220;honor abstract, shortform, and unconventional game development which advances the medium and the way we think about games.&#8221; My collaborator, Ian Bogost, has a game in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/01\/igf-finalists-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IGF Finalists Announced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,44,17,11,24],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artgames","tag-competitions","tag-digital","tag-games","tag-gatherings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}