Game Innovation Lab, Indie Fund, and IndieCade

Tracy Fullerton is a professor and the director of the USC Games program, otherwise known as Game Innovation Lab.

Funding
-Grants and EA
http://archive.is/Z6bgQ

	Associated faculty include award winning game designers Richard Lemarchand (Uncharted series) and Peter Brinson (Waco, The Cat and the Coup) as well as pioneering games user researcher Dennis Wixon. Research staff include up and coming game designers Elizabeth Swensen and Sean Bouchard, as well as the talented digital media artists Kurosh ValaNejad, Todd Furmanski and Lucas Peterson. Graduate student researchers in the lab have gone on to stellar careers at Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Zynga and more.
	Current projects, such as the FutureBound suite of games Walden, a game, and the ChronoCards History games are supported by Microsoft Research, The Gates Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Gilbert Foundation, and The Department of Education.
https://archive.is/79qam#selection-243.0-255.366

People involved with USC's Game Innovation Lab
https://archive.is/iG0ej


Selection process for IndieCade
https://archive.is/20150917003559/http://www.indiecade.com/submissions/Selection_Process


2010:
	Committee
	https://archive.is/UGVtD#selection-1023.45-1023.63

	Awards
	https://archive.is/V7gp7


2011:
	Committee
	https://archive.is/20160104051731/http://www.indiecade.com/about

	Awards
	https://archive.is/SxbTC

((On ETC))
Coco & Co's Way received an award.
	http://archive.is/rfI0Q
Drew Davison was on the committee. He is also part of Carnegie Mellon's ETC.

((On Game Innovation Lab))
2011 was the year FEZ won an award from IndieCade.
Kelle Santiago was also on the committee for 2011's IndieCade awards.
Kelle worked as a graduate research assistant for the Game Innovation Lab back in 2006.
	https://archive.is/iG0ej
Richard Lemarchand, & Tracy Fullerton of Games Innovation Lab were also on the committee for 2011's IndieCade awards.



2012:
	Committee
	https://archive.is/20160104051731/http://www.indiecade.com/about

	Awards
	https://archive.is/QGSfr

((On Game Innovation Lab))
Kellee Santiago is committee for Jury
A Reality Ends Here, USC game, wins an award
A game by Jeff Watson, Simon Wiscombe, & Tracy Fullerton
http://archive.is/QGSfr#selection-1015.0-1015.17

2013:
	Committee
	https://archive.is/eGlPM

	Awards
	https://archive.is/8I6PY

((On Game Innovation Lab))
Richard Lemarchand, Sean Bouchard, Anna Lotko, Jeremy Gibson, and Elizabeth Swensen are people from the 2013 Indiecade Festival Organizers who were or are people from Game Innovation Lab.

The Trailblazer award is an honorary prize given by IndieCade every year to a working game creator who has both made great contributions to the field of games and captures the independent spirit. The Trailblazer award is for distinguished accomplishment over a career of game creation, and recognizes those personalities without whom many of us would have never fallen in love with the field. Past recipients include: Tim Schafer (2010), Megan Gaiser (2011), Elan Lee (2012).

Tracy Fullerton received The Trailblazer award in 2013
Jeremy Gibson was an Assistant Professor teaching game design for the Interactive Media Division of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. He was also the co-chair for the jury.



2014:
	Committee
	https://archive.is/CWBUs

	Awards
	https://archive.is/20151208031234/http://www.indiecade.com/2014/festival_awards


2015:
	Committee
	http://archive.is/X6cy4

	Awards
	https://archive.is/atWjU

((On Game Innovation Lab))
Sean Bouchard, Drea Clark, Sam Roberts, Chloe Lister, James Cox, Elizabeth Swensen, Jeremy Gibson Bond, James Taylor, Akira Thompson, Teddy Diefenbach, and Jamie Antonisse are 2015 Indiecade Festival organizers who were or are people from Game Innovation Lab.

Walden, a game, an IndieCade Festival 2015 Official Award Nominee, will be featured among 110+ of the best indie games of the year at #IndieCade15 this October 23-25.
https://archive.is/TeReA

Did not receive an award however.



More on Sean Bouchard:
	Backer for FF
	http://archive.is/6Iu1B

	Backer for Gaming in Color
	http://archive.is/zj1mq

More on Tracy Fullerton:
	Electronic Arts Chair of the Interactive Media & Games Division Fullerton
	https://archive.is/lnwLV


>During that IndieCade award Ceremony, Reality Ends Here, USC game, wins an award at IndieCade. A game created by Jeff Watson, Simon Wiscombe, & (suprise suprise) Tracy Fullerton.
And just to prove that Santiago and Fullerton knew each other already in USC… Sanitago graduated from the Game innovation lab in 2006: https://archive.is/iG0ej#selection-855.1-877.17
Fullerton started working there in 2004, her linkedin says she still works there: https://archive.is/NgJ27#selection-1597.0-1621.239
Best part? Santiago herself confirmed that she took one of Fullerton's classes:
>The second semester there, we had this class taught by Tracy Fullerton.
Source: https://archive.is/yNXG2#selection-319.641-319.712