UCI?s Game Culture & Technology Lab Seeks Participation in Independent and Alternative Game Festival

4.15.04 - UC Irvine’s Calit² Game Culture & Technology Lab and the Beall Center for Art and Technology invite participation in ALT+CTRL, a festival of independent and alternative games. Modeled after the Beall Center’s successful 2000 exhibition SHIFT+CTRL (http://beallcenter.uci.edu/shift/home.html), ALT+CTRL provides a juried venue outside the mainstream game industry to showcase the latest independent games and game art.

“ALT+CTRL seeks to cultivate a vibrant independent game community, and bring both the game industry and the general public new and novel applications in game design, game genres, design methodologies and approaches to game play,” said Celia Pearce, associate director for UCI’s Calit² Game Culture & Technology Lab (http://www.ucgamelab.net).

For sponsors, ALT+CTRL provides an opportunity to support independent game developers, artists and modders who are pushing the envelope of what games are and can be. The exhibition and conference will provide exposure to a projected audience of over 2500 independent developers, game industry publishers and game fans.

The submission deadline is June 1, 2004. For information, to place an online submission, or to learn more about sponsorship opportunities, please visit:
http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/gamelab/events/alt_ctrl_04.html