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Now you can watch BIG Festival's english-spoken workshops and panels on Youtube! Click here for the playlist.

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Should an indie dev always think small? Capsized was created (mostly) by just two people… even so, it garnered a lot of attention at indie festivals, launched on Steam and got a Metacritic score of 80. On BIG Festival, it was nominated for Best Gameplay and Best Game.  Click here to read the interview!

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Awesomenauts is one of the most popular and commercially successful games to participate in BIG Festival 2012. It was also nominated for the Best Gameplay and Best Game categories. Robin Meijer, the representative sent by Ronimo Games to the festival, tells how the studio started, and ponders on the reason of the game’s success. Click here to read it!

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If you missed the winners of BIG Festival on Facebook, don't worry! Soon the results will be posted on our website. For now, you can access our official and complete list to discover a bit more from each winner! You can even play some of them for free!

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Unmechanical can be classified as “minimalistic”, but that’s diminishing its personality, which derives from details and subtleties. The game is nominated for three categories on BIG Festival: Best Visual, Best Sound and the grand prize of Best Game. Click here to read the interview with the game's team!

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Ian Kelso is the founder of several media business events including GameON Finance, X-Summit and INplay. In this video, he comments on the current market for this area in Canada, the possible professional interactions between canadians and brazilians, and his expectations for BIG Festival.

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BIG Festival is not a boys-only event! Amanda Cinfio is the Director at Gree International, specialized in international business relationship development with publishers and developers of software for smartphones. Careen Yapp is responsible for the pursuit of new business development for Konami, like acquisition and development and franchises. They'll both be speakers and also attend Demonight!

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In our first english BIG Interview, we talk with Adriaan de Jongh, creator of the iPad game Fingle. A non-conventional Game Designer to say the least, he creates games based on social observations and believes people are missing a bit of pure and simple FUN nowadays. Click here to read!

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BIG's family keeps on growing! Fredrik Wester is a director member of the Association of Swedish Game Developers and CEO of Paradox Interactive, based in Stockholm, an important publisher for PC strategy games. Levy Buchan is the Senior Manager at Chillingo, publisher for independent titles like Angry Birds, Cut The Rope, Feed Me Oil, among others. 

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Two more gurus for BIG! One is Dan Connors, CEO, Director and Founder of Telltale Games, famous for series like Sam & Max and the revival of the Monkey Island franchise. The other is Jim Ying, vice-president of 6Waves, leader in publishing independent games in social networks and mobile platforms; he was also the Global Product Manager of the original Microsoft Xbox.

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BIG has a new guru, Chris Avellone! RPG designer extraordinaire, he worked on games like Star Wars: KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout: New Vegas. He's also a part of the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter phenomenon, which already raised almost U$ 3,000,000!

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Which is the face of the Brazilian Game Designer? To answer this question, we created the Press Start series, mini-interviews where you meet different professionals, students and enthusiasts of Game Design, and discovers what path they have walked to get where they are today. Click here to read our first edition with Jessica Blanco!

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Due to popular request, BIG is extending its deadline for game submission until sunday, September 16th, at midnight (BRT - Brasília Time). Come join us! Another chance like this, only next year...

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Be it for elegant simplicity or old-school appeal, Retro Gaming is a big appeal for Indie developers. Pixels never go out of style! Check out these 5 Tips For Making Great 16-Bit-Style Action Games at Gamasutra.

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What does it take to create a hit game such as Angry Birds? Check out what Peter Vesterbacka, Chief Marketing Officer at Rovio, has to say about the company, the ideas, concepts and the analytical process that resulted in one of the most successful gaming franchises to date.

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In case you missed, here are the Top 10 Indie Games from 2011 by GamaSutra. Some of these, such as Bastion and Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony, gained critical acclaim from the gaming media, besides having commercial success through digital distribution.

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We are proud to announce Alexander Seropian as one of the game design gurus to attend BIG Festival! Seropian is one of the founders of Bungie Software and helped create some of their biggests hits, such as Marathon and Halo: Combat Evolved.

(Photo by Tigran Tovmasyan)