Digital Spaces for Digital Games: How BostonFIG Fest Virtual 2020 Brought a Show Online

Digital Spaces for Digital Games: How BostonFIG Fest Virtual 2020 Brought a Show Online

Like the Game Devs of Color Expo, the BostonFIG Fest was one of many events that had to adapt and change their show in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

In typical circumstances, the annual games event is hosted around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, as noted in my recap of a previous year’s Fest. But because a pandemic simply does not magically disappear into the transition of a new year, the BostonFIG Fest went virtual in 2021, hosting its festivities on Gather. (more…)

Of Indies and Figgies: A Recap on BostonFIG 2018

Of Indies and Figgies: A Recap on BostonFIG 2018

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Game Lab recently sponsored its annual BostonFIG Fest, an indie games show that aims to celebrate “independent game development in New England, across the United States, and around the globe.”

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