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Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2008 call for submissions - News
By Paguba Florin
Published: June 17, 2008
Print The screenings programme is the consumer face of the Interactive
Festival, giving gamers a rare opportunity to see the latest titles
before they hit the market, meet the people behind some of the world's
most popular games, find out more about games design and development
and celebrate the creativity, culture and lifestyle of gaming.
The 2008 programme is now open for screening submissions from developers, publishers and game creators, who would like their content showcased as part of this year's event. The event offers 45 to 60 minute screening sessions in dedicated auditoriums seating 200 people. For the first time, the screenings programme will also feature game-related short films, machinima and animations, which will be shown between screenings. Film makers and animators are encouraged to submit their game-related short films to be included in this new strand of the festival.
The last three years of the Edinburgh Interactive Festival have seen exclusive UK consumer premieres of games including BioShock, Crackdown, Age Of Conan, Guitar Hero III - Legends of Rock, Haze, Colin McRae: DIRT and Crysis. These and other exclusive titles have been contributed over the previous years by some of the World's leading developers and publishers, including Microsoft, Eidos, Activision and Ubisoft, to name but a few.
"The screenings are a hugely important and popular part of the whole Interactive Festival," says Chris Deering, Chairman of the EIF. "It's one of the very few opportunities for members of the public in the UK to see some of the most anticipated games before they hit the high street. The number of screenings we have hosted and the audiences attending have grown every year since the festival began. The screenings have showcased some of the biggest games on the market and this year we are able to open this section of the Festival even further."
"We try to offer a very broad range of games and topics," says EIF Screenings Director, Brian Baglow. "Everything from the latest sports, racing and fighting games on console, through to the more complicated PC titles, handheld, mobile, online, casual and indie games. We want to showcase the best new games no matter which platform they appear on - and we want to hear from everyone with exciting new titles."
"The new short film and machinima feature is something we previewed last year and it proved so popular with the audience, this year we want to expand it to offer new content on screen between every session. Again we want to hear from anyone with material they would like to showcase, ideally related to games, or which were created using game technology."
Tickets for the Screenings will be made available to consumers free-of-charge, through branches of GameStation across central Scotland.
The 2008 programme is now open for screening submissions from developers, publishers and game creators, who would like their content showcased as part of this year's event. The event offers 45 to 60 minute screening sessions in dedicated auditoriums seating 200 people. For the first time, the screenings programme will also feature game-related short films, machinima and animations, which will be shown between screenings. Film makers and animators are encouraged to submit their game-related short films to be included in this new strand of the festival.
The last three years of the Edinburgh Interactive Festival have seen exclusive UK consumer premieres of games including BioShock, Crackdown, Age Of Conan, Guitar Hero III - Legends of Rock, Haze, Colin McRae: DIRT and Crysis. These and other exclusive titles have been contributed over the previous years by some of the World's leading developers and publishers, including Microsoft, Eidos, Activision and Ubisoft, to name but a few.
"The screenings are a hugely important and popular part of the whole Interactive Festival," says Chris Deering, Chairman of the EIF. "It's one of the very few opportunities for members of the public in the UK to see some of the most anticipated games before they hit the high street. The number of screenings we have hosted and the audiences attending have grown every year since the festival began. The screenings have showcased some of the biggest games on the market and this year we are able to open this section of the Festival even further."
"We try to offer a very broad range of games and topics," says EIF Screenings Director, Brian Baglow. "Everything from the latest sports, racing and fighting games on console, through to the more complicated PC titles, handheld, mobile, online, casual and indie games. We want to showcase the best new games no matter which platform they appear on - and we want to hear from everyone with exciting new titles."
"The new short film and machinima feature is something we previewed last year and it proved so popular with the audience, this year we want to expand it to offer new content on screen between every session. Again we want to hear from anyone with material they would like to showcase, ideally related to games, or which were created using game technology."
Tickets for the Screenings will be made available to consumers free-of-charge, through branches of GameStation across central Scotland.
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