Indie Video Game Fest 2026

The Indie Video Game Fest is an annual one-day event that brings together gamers, developers, and industry professionals to play, discuss, and celebrate independent video games from the DMV area.

Come explore, demo, and play games from grassroots community game developers who need YOU to play their games!

As part of the event enjoy a FREE talk at 2 PM. What is a memoir game, and why should you make one?

Game developer Emma Kidwell discusses what memoir is, and how making personal games is both a powerful artistic statement and a tool for narrative designers to trust their intuition when designing a story that resonates with people.

Emma has worked on many games, such as Civilization VII and Marvel's Midnight Suns, along with several indie projects.

She will be in conversation with award-winning video essayist . He is an award-winning video essayist who examines the intersecting worlds of video games, politics, art, and storytelling.

Jacob is also the author of How a Game Lives and the upcoming book You're Not Overthinking It.

• 11 am – 4 pm: Live game demonstrations & interactive exhibits: explore over 30 independent video games
  

• 10 am: So you wanna be a game dev? Hosted by Andrea Saravia Pérez, Rick Williams, and Daniel Silber
• 12 pm: Building a Whole New World?
  Best Inclusive Design Practices in Visual Media with Dr. Sarah Slingluff is a scholar of Islamic art history and video games whose work focuses on design pedagogy to guide developers and educators in creating inclusive, historically grounded games.
  She has consulted on several titles, most notably Assassin's Creed Mirage.

• 2 pm: Keynote Talk: Memoir Games with Game Developer in conversation with award-winning video essayist and .
  

Join us for this exciting celebration of indie video games and talks!

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Host or Publisher Enoch Pratt Free Library