Brandon Boyer Named IGF Chairman

By: Derek Yu

On: May 12th, 2010

Brandon Boyer, who you might (should!) recognize as the games editor for Boing Boing and the awesome Offworld, has been named Chairman of the Independent Games Festival. Simon Carless, the previous Chairman (who has done a superhuman job, I might add), will still help out on the IGF/IGS organizing committee, along with Matthew Wegner and Steve Swink. You can read the full announcement on the IGF website.

Great, now I’m already excited for next year’s IGF.

Posted in Community, IGF / GDC

godsavant

Congrats, Brandon! TIGSource's plans for world domination are coming along nicely.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/navaboo/ Nava

Sweet! Congrats Brandon!! :)
TeamQuiggan

Good Job buddy!
gaycocks

Oh boy the editor of a stupid website is now in charge of a fucking joke of a competition. Who fucking cares
Dodger

@gaycocks,

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Dodger

As for Brandon,

Congrats, AND, perhaps this will help evolve the IGF into something even bigger and better and maybe even bring good fortune to the whole event. The whole thing has been getting bigger and bigger every year, it's going to be pretty hectic and Brandon will be pretty busy I'm sure. Either way, good luck and best wishes!

The biggest complaints I've heard about the IGF (and GDC) is obviously the expense of it all (it's an expensive event even to attend), but the other thing was the lack of support from any of the people actually involved with the IGF. Not moral support, but person to person support, customer service kind of support. Perhaps with Brandon there will be even more friendly faces to go around and help those who are lost or confused… but mostly lost. :-)

Anyway, cheers Brandon.
http://flashpunk.net Chevy Ray Johnston

Cool :D
http://www.foppygames.nl Foppy

A bit “off” topic, but the Offworld website seems to be displayed incorrectly in Firefox.
http://www.brandonnn.com brandonnn

this was basically my reaction too
http://www.brandonnn.com brandonnn

Making sure everyone spread around SF hostels & hotels (especially first-timers) are all on the same page and know where and when things are going down, and making sure someone (ie. me) is on the show floor during booth setup is something that was already discussed up front and will surely be part of my 2011 gig.
http://www.brandonnn.com brandonnn

It's not your browser: at the moment, stuff getting posted to OW is just being re-posted from the games category of Boing Boing, which has a 20px wider template, is all.
http://www.dfuters.com/ corpus

Oh, cool. This must be really exciting. Congratulations, Brandon!