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Three more games leave Slamdance

January 9th, 2007 (Visited 244939 times) Tags: art games, indie games, jonathan blow

The Braid blog has the scoop. Jon calculates this is now 40% of the jury-selected games.

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Bloggers | The Cesspit. wrote on January 9th, 2007 at 12:38 pm:

[...] Bloggers January 9, 2007 19:06 Three more games leave Slamdance The Braid blog has the scoop. Jon calculates this is now 40% of the jury-selected games. Source: Raph's Koster Website

American Heretic » Deus Ex Slamdance wrote on January 9th, 2007 at 3:56 pm:

[...] Of recent news is the 2007 Slamdance Guerrilla Gamemaker Competition currently suffering from the aftermath of a decision to withdraw controversial game Super Columbine Massacre RPG from the roster of finalists. A number of finalists have seized the opportunity to voluntarily pull out from the competition citing concerns about artistic merit… [...]

Water Cooler Games wrote on January 9th, 2007 at 5:08 pm:

USC Withdraws Slamdance Sponsorship…

USC Interactive Media Division, whose students created last year’s Slamdance “design philosophy” winner Cloud and this year’s former finalist flOw, has just withdrawn their sponsorship of the festival. Says USC professor Tracy Fullerton: In some of…

brinking - nabeel hyatt wrote on January 10th, 2007 at 8:20 am:

Stick to your brand knitting….

Apple did a great job of that today. Slamdance has not. All the nuances of this controversy are being talked about everywhere else, but for me it says as much about the future as the present. Super Columbine Massacre RPG is disturbing, but being banned …

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BugHunter said on January 9th, 2007 at 10:26 am:
I wish I had a game to pull out of slamdance so I can get some publicity too. This looks more and more like some prima donas taking their ball and going home.

“Look at me. I’m protesting too!”
Steve Chiavelli said on January 9th, 2007 at 10:34 am:
BugHunter,

Toblo is free student game. We do not profit from “publicity” of our decision to pull out of Slamdance in any way. The decision was not come to easily, but I would have felt like a hypocrite taking part in this competition.