page_title: Independent Games Festival
hierarchical_section_title: Independent Games Festival
caption_attribution_description: English: Jenna Sharpe, Alec Holowka, and Derek Yu at the 2007 Independent Games Festival. Their game, Aquaria, won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize.
context_page_description: The Independent Games Festival is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry.
  The IGF competition awards a total of $50,000 in prizes to independent developers in Main Competition and Student Competition categories, and held around the same time as the Game Developers Choice Awards event.
  Founded in 1998 to promote independent video game developers, and innovation in video game development, IGF wants to do for the independent game community the same benefit the Sundance Film Festival has brought to the independent film community, IGF is owned by the CMP Game Group, producers of the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine, and Gamasutra.com.
context_section_description: The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry.
  The IGF competition awards a total of $50,000 in prizes to independent developers in Main Competition and Student Competition categories, and held around the same time as the Game Developers Choice Awards event.
  Founded in 1998 to promote independent video game developers, and innovation in video game development, IGF wants to do for the independent game community the same benefit the Sundance Film Festival has brought to the independent film community,  IGF is owned by the CMP Game Group, producers of the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine, and Gamasutra.com.
caption: Aquaria developer Jenna Sharpe, Alec Holowka and Derek Yu on the reception of the IGF prize 2007
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