2012 IGF Pirate Kart Releases, Makes Busy Gamers Cry

“Damn, I hope this 1.14 gig download doesn’t but me over my bandwidth limit.”

“What are you doing, downloading a video games?”

“No. I’m downloading 313 video games.”

That’s right, the 2012 IGF Pirate Kart has been released. Previous Pirate Karts have been a sort of Ludum Dare on steroids, challenging indie game makers to create hundreds of new games in 48 hours, then put them in one big zip file. This one’s a little different, with a calvacade of well-known indie icons (ranging from prolific contributors Terry Cavanaugh and Anna Anthropy to less proliferic-but-still-famous folks like Radiator’s Robert Yang) taking previously completed games that they’re legitamitely proud of but “too rough” for single competition h and entering them wholesale in the IGF.

The IGF is one of the few obvious avenues indie game makers have to actually making a living off their work, but it’s enormously competitive and the $95 entry fee means that you’re a lot more likely to lose money than gain it. By paying the fee once for a boatload of games, the makers are sneaking some weirder material into the showcase. Awesome, I say!

As an added bonus, you now don’t have to buy any video games for at least a year. Someone needs to start a dedicated WordPress blog and play one a day.

You can grab the pack – and read quotes from some contributors – at piratekart .com.

Post by Dylan Holmes

Dylan grew up in the lovely Pacific Northwest, where the water is emerald and the games are...well, the same as anywhere else, because it's a mass medium. But he still likes them! Particularly the ones with the fancy interactive stories and choices that actually matter. An aspiring something, he writes regularly about video games because his analysis and opinions cannot be contained within his fragile mind. You can read more of his ramblings at Augmented Vision.

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