IGDA Perspectives Newsletter: "This Indie Life"

The May 2014 edition of the IGDA Perspectives newsletter, This Indie Life, is available!

• Letter from the Executive Director, Kate Edwards
• The Indie Life: How I Thought It Would Differ from AAA But Doesn't, Judy Tryer
• Make Friends, Not Fairytales, Tim Stobo
• 6 Months in Heaven: My Indie Adventure, Michael Bertrand
• Industry Insights #2 with Tristan Moore, Zachary Snader
• IndieSpective: So You Want to Go Indie?, Robert Madsen
• Game Design Aspect of the Month: Good Free-to-Play Games, Howard Go
• Indie Business Development: Finding Funding (Incubators and Grants), Nina Park
• The Student View: Don’t Say "Publisher", Suzanne Jackiw
• Industry Insights #3 with Patrick Klepek, Zachary Snader
• Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Bubble?, Chris Orris

For its June issue, the newsletter accepting submissions for "Educational Games: The Good Stuff".

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Design for educational games.
• Frameworks for developing educational games.
• Partnership structures for educational games.
• Using games developed specifically for educational contexts.
• Success stories.
• Lessons learned.
• Funding for educational games.

Please send articles of 500 words or more in length in Word format with a short third person bio and images attached separately to Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth LaPensée at beth [at] igda [dot] org by Friday, 13 June.