The festival is only open to developers in the US and Canada.
AB Wire
Google will now host a gaming festival in San Francisco on September 24. Called Simply the Indie Games Festival, Google will focus on independent developers who build apps on its Android operating system. The company started taking submissions for games that will be featured.
Indie Games Festival will highlight 30 upcoming and recent games that will be available in the Google Play Store to Android users, with prizes going to the top submissions.
The festival is only open to developers in the US and Canada with a team of 15 people or less, and featured games must have been released in 2016 or be published by the end of the year.
“If you’re an indie game developer, you know that games are a powerful medium of expression of art, whimsy, and delight. Being on Google Play can help you reach over a billion users and build a successful, global business. That’s why we recently introduced programs, like the Indie Corner, to help more gamers discover your works of art.” The company said in a blog post.
This event is a chance for small teams to introduce their games to a new audience since it will be open to public as a free event. Google offers also offers prizes like Tango hardware, tickets for next year’s Google I/O, and ad space in the Google Play Store.
“Google Play is the largest store for digital content, 65 billion apps and games were downloaded the past year,” says Google’s Jamil Moledina, a strategic lead for Play Games.
“It’s an immense platform that we have, and along with that is an opportunity to better support the indie games community” Moledina added.
It was in March Google launched a new section in the Play Store called ‘Indie Corner’ in order to highlight some of the best games on the platform.