NEWS: PROFESSOR PIETRO RIGHI RIVA JOINS THE JURY OF THE 2020 INDEPENDENT GAME FESTIVAL

Professor and designer Pietro Righi Riva has been selected as Jury Member of the Nuovo Award category at the 2020 Independent Games Festival

The jurying phase of the 2020 Independent Games Festival has just begun. Yesterday organizers are announced the lineup of industry experts who will be helping to judge some of the Festival's top awards! Among the industry luminaries who have agreed to judge the Nuovo Award, the Excellence in Design Award, and the Excellence in Audio Award is Pietro Righi Riva. Santa Ragione co-founder will be judging the submissions for the tenth annual Nuovo Award, an honor intended to celebrate the more esoteric and artful games in the industry, alongside Bennett Foddy, Liz Ryerson, Eris Koleszar, Chloi Rad, Ichiro Lambe, and Kevin Zuhn.

The Independent Games Festival was established in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers. The goal was to create a similar event to Sundance for independent game developers - and that's just what has happened with the Independent Games Festival, which has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash prizes (and brought major exposure and a much higher profile) to a multitude of indie and student game developers who have entered.

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