Conclusion

I haven’t been able to make it to past IGCs, but I had a great time at this one. The weather did actually clear up later in the week, though it was cold and rainy most of the time. Apparently that’s just the usual weather there this time of year. All the people I met where great, and the Garage folk were awesome. I hung out around their offices Thursday and Friday evenings and they somehow managed to put up with me taking over their sofa, plugging into their wifi, and stealing their food (those muffins were yummy). I was about to graduate to taking over a workstation, but Andy and Mark finished playing Marble Blast on IA before I could hop in. Drats.

Some other as yet unmentioned events included the Wii Tennis Tourny that was held after sessions completed on the first day. I didn’t participate because I knew I sucked having hardly ever played before and didn’t feel like dragging some poor sod down with me. I watched though since they had it up on the huge projection screen. Good job Fritz and Dylan on snagging the title. After that was the Indie Garage Band Jam – where Jeff Tunnell and his his band The Procrastinators set up next to the stage and started jamming. You can check out videos of them rocking out over at UStream TV. Other developers who could play joined in on the jam as well. Day Two closed with the Player’s Choice Awards, where attendees voted for their best choice of the myriad of games that were uploaded to the PCs available off to the side. Congrats to Gondolier of Love, which snagged first place. I watched people playing it, notably Tom Buscaglia Sr (the Game Attorney) – if you do bad enough the people in the gondola jump off the side into the water. That was pretty hilarious.

GarageGames also offered up boot camps for TorqueX and TGB to IGC attendees. These boot camps usually go for $300 - $400 dollars, so it was quite a steal. I sat in on the TorqueX one and would have missed the TGB one had my flight not been cancelled, forcing me to fly out the following evening instead. Fortune smiled upon me I guess. If you want more information on the program, you can find it here.

Looking forward to IGC ‘08!