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Indie Prize Winners Announced as the 2018 Casual Connect Concludes Indie Prize Winners Announced As Casual Connect USA 2018 Concludes Casual Connect USA 2018  has concluded - and with it, over three days of lectures, workshops, networking, and  parties. The conference brought out hundreds of professionals from all walks of the games industry - including console, mobile, PC, casino, VR/AR, and online - providing them with opportunities to connect, learn new skills, and gain valuable insights on a range of topics. A favorite part of the conference is the Indie Prize area where game indie developers get to show off their wares. Check out the list of notables for 2018.

Tribe of Noise Head Noise Maker Updates us on their Latest Venture -  Bizmusiq Hessel Van Oorschot - Chief Noise Maker at Tribe of Noise Startup Business models evolve. Some out of necessity. Some out of pure timing and chance meeting.  In an  interview  early this year with Hessel Van Oorschot , we learned that there is another higher decibel noise coming from the Tribe of Noise  which Hessel talked about a new streaming service for restaurants. Turns out this announcement was just the infrastructure tech for an even bigger deal.   Hessel talks about a new joint venture with a record label in the Netherlands. Here in the states(as every one outside of US likes to call it), you may or may not have heard about them - Strengholt Music Group .  Strengholt owns new dutch music licenses as well as classic licenses. As Hessel discusses in the interview, the old labels need to get into the digital era and why not stream modern to classic music, se...

Casual Connect  Announces the 2 Entries for Indie Prize from Argentina Meet the 2 amazingly talented finalists of  ‪#‎ IndiePrize‬  USA 2016 r epresenting the Argentina  at Casual Connect on July 18-19 in San Francisco.  The Indie Prize area is a special area where you can meet Indie game developers from around the world at the  ‪#‎ CasualConnect‬  San Francisco show! For a full list   of indie games, go to  indieprize.org .  We have all their videos embedded here!

Nerd Stalker Supports Casual Connect as Media Sponsor  2016 Casual Connect is coming July 18 to San Francisco Casual Connect , game industry conference, is coming back to San Francisco on July 18-19 and Nerd Stalker is on board. We loved the event the last two years and we decided to become a media sponsor of the event.  With three days and nights of lectures, workshops, and networking parties to give you the edge in today's evolving games industry.  Inspiration comes from the most respected thought leaders in the games industry. King, Playtika,   Kabam , Glu, SGN, Scopely,  Zynga , The  Walt Disney Company ,  Blizzard Entertainment , Google, Fig, Wargaming and Facebook. Join 300 speakers over 11 tracks representing the leaders in the next generation of games. Register here .

Tribe of Noise Head Noise Maker Updates us on his Indie Music Tribe Business model evolution is constant and a must. After our initial interview with Hessel Van Oorshot last year, we learned that there is some new noise coming from the Tribe of Noise . If you still don't know the Tribe of Noise, it is a web service allowing indie musicians and media makers to collaborate. Hessel talks about new Tribe of Noise Pro features coming in the next few months which will allow media creatives to find the right music for their project with a new way to search. Partnered with IBM Watson, filters are out the door for for media music search using feelings like Energy Level and Emotions - makes sense to us. Hessel also talks about the new streaming music for restaurants  where services like Spotify, Pandora, Deezer don't offer multiple country commercial licenses so you can't just stream them at your business place (wink-wink). Finally, Hessel talks about their relationship with S...

Indie Gamers Who Caught Our Nerdy Eye at Casual Connect At the last Casual Connect - San Francisco, we spent a lot of time at the Indie showcase where our producer and game lover, Taiko Fujimura met four indie game developers with some great up and coming titles. Here are her picks. 

Indie Game Developer Chris de Castro Shares Lessons Learned In another episode of Kickstarter Unboxed, we talk with indie game developer Chris de Castro who shares five big learnings of crowdfunding wisdom about his successful Kickstarter campaign with his indie game "The Wizards of Trinity Bellwoods". Check out below what Chris can share with other indie game developers on crowdfunding.

Kickstarter campaign hopes to launch "The Wizards of Trinity Bellwoods" At the last Casual Connect 2015, we were actively stalking Indie game developers. One game developer that caught our nerdy eye was the " The Wizards of Trinity Bellwoods ".  The game takes place in Trinity Bellwoods Park and models a real life ecosystem of hipsters drinking in the park, leaving glass bottles, plastic bottles and aluminum cans and the "recycle" people (You) go and collect them for money to make their lives better. Sound too familiar? It happens everywhere. Chris de Castro, the indie game developer of this game, said it reminds him of his personal story of how his grandparents took care of his family. We talk with Chris de Castro about his game that is live on Kickstarter now. Check it out!

Tribe of Noise Gives Indie Musicians Revenue and Gaming and Video Creatives Licensing Options The music industry is complicated. Music Licensing is complicated. Getting quality music   within budget and within timeframe  into your indie game, video or movie is nearly impossible  (unless you know i.e. the Doobie Brothers). That is why there are tech events like SF Music Tech . Recently, we interviewed Hessel van Oorschot , Head Noisemaker and business conductor at Tribe of Noise . Tribe of Noise is a service that connects creatives who need music with independent musicians who create beautiful music. Tribe of Noise has been around since 2008 (that's 49 Years in startup dog years) - that's a long time. Untangling the music industry spaghetti is what they are trying to do with strategic partnerships with Getty Images , SONOS and Pond5 . Hessel explains why the Tribe of Noise fills the void and gives the money and choice back to the indie musician and the reason...