IndieCade

@indiecade.bsky.social

Celebrating and supporting international independent game development. Submissions are open! https://indiecade.com/submissions/

We’re proud to be a community partner of the 2026 Games for Change Festival! This year’s theme is “Reimagining Play” and many of our community members are presenting talks, including KB Bonfiglio, Lindsay Grace, Sam Liberty, and more! Let us know if you’ll be in attendance! #G4C2026 #IndieCade

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What a success!! The IndieCade Horizons Game Educators Summit last Friday at @asu, sold out both in-person and online! This first-of-its-kind syllabi swap meet is on track to become an annual gathering!

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‼️ HORIZONS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT🌟 Dr. Lindsay Grace 🏆 20+ years in the field Knight Chair @UMiami, VP of @HEVGA, 🏆 Founder American University Game Lab 🏆 Leadership @GlobalGameJam & DiGRA 🏆 Authored 100+ publications including Black Game Studies 🏆 Keynoted GDC & SXSW to curating at Smithsonian

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🏅EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR INNOVATION 🌠 Congrats Dr. Hieftje 🌟 Co-Founder XR Pediatrics Lab & Center for Immersive Technologies in Pediatrics at Yale 🌟Leader in XR and game-bas ed interventions in health behavior 🌟K12 Scholar Yale Implementation Science program 🌟Editor-in-chief Games for Health Journal

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🏆 EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR TEACHING✨️ Just some Brian Winn wins: 🏅 Taught 1st game development course at Michigan State University 🏅 Established MSU’s serious games master’s program 🏅 Founded the International Conference on Meaningful Play 🏅 Coursera Game Design and Development w/ 500,000+ learners

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✨️ EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR SERVICE🎉 Congratulations to @professorashley She's Assistant Arts Professor @nyugamecenter and has served as: 🕹️ Vice President @globalgamejam 🕹️ Conference co-director IGDA’s Games User Research Special Interest Group 🕹️ current President of the DiGRA 🕹️ fellow of HEGVA

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The IndieCade Playable Theatre Symposium is SOLD OUT! We’re so excited to host this explosion of creativity with our friends from the University of Cincinnati Game Lab. If you missed out, make sure to grab your ticket early to jext year’s online symposium!

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If you're at GDC, we'd love to meet up with you! We're teaming up with Warped Worlds to showcase some amazing and wonderfully weird games, so come on by to meet up with IndieCade award winners, alumni, Horizons members, and community members from all over the world! RSVP: luma.com/tfteyjku

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