QNYC Event Highlight: IndieCade East Video Game Festival

It’s known as the Sundance of its industry, and this year it commemorates the video game’s 50th birthday. On February 15-17, the Museum of the Moving Image will host IndieCade East, the greatest show on earth for independent gamers. Considered appropriate for ages eight and up, this extravaganza features 20 playable games — from digital to physical, multiplayer to single player, active to meditative, playful to serious –drawn from IndieCade’s October 2012 festival competition. Also scheduled are presentations from designers, academics and journalists including Kris Piotrowski (Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP) and Doug Wilson (Johann Sebastien Joust), seminars and workshops for budding game makers led by industry experts, an arcade tournament and a festival-long game jam. And if that’s not enough, the museum will offer an exhibit on the video game’s first half century, Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off, on view through March 3.