[URL]http://www.lordkat.com/igf-and-indiecade-racketeering.html[/URL]
No Actual news source yet, but you need to read the entire thing in the link (FP rules say you can't quote the entire article).
In-depth video including evidence:
[video=youtube;HM_Z5YTop7g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_Z5YTop7g[/video]
Infograph image version of video above:
[URL]http://i.imgur.com/jbp3XKj.jpg[/URL]
IGF's Response:
[url]http://igf.com/2014/09/igf_statement_re_judging_proce.html[/url]
TL;DR
[QUOTE=Untouch;45918361]IGF is a pretty massive thing for indie game devs.
Games that win are automatically put onto steam, and win a cash prize.
Jonathan Blow and some other people run a program called the indie games fund, this is known, and it is fine. They get some money out of whatever companies they fund. Again, this is legal.
One of the companies they fund is polytron, another is the company that made antichamber. Both of these were in the IGF. It turns out that several members of this group are judges at the IGF, meaning that fez and antichamber were pushed through to winning because of the connections they have.
This is totally illegal.[/QUOTE]
oh man phil fish is in some shit now
[QUOTE=Eonart;45918968]Phil Fish can go to prison for 20 years for this.
Choke on it, Phil Fish.[/QUOTE]
Just remember, the "Suck a dick" quote was him bragging about Fez winning the IGF grand prize.
[img]http://thewiredfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/phil-fish-tweet.jpg[/img]
AFAIK, under the RICO act, Phil Fish and anyone associated to this could definitely go to jail for fraud and racketeering.
The people who dug up this information also strongly suspect that the origin of the Polytron "hack" was actually a Polytron employee who found out about this and was upset with Phil.
Blow is currently denying his involvement.
[url]http://web.archive.org/web/20080430132426/http://www.igf.com/judges.html[/url]
And also they have been in contact and working with the proper authorities before publically revealing this too.
ah that sucks, Blow is a cool guy
[QUOTE=noneshallpass;45919188]ah that sucks, Blow is a cool guy[/QUOTE]
He isn't necessarily one of the people involved. The guy probably cares less about making himself rich than anyone else in the industry.
I sincerely hope that anyone involved in the fraud is actually convicted, usually people just get off free for this kind shit and it would be nice to send a message by actually doing something about it
FEZ winning all of these prices always seemed so weird to me, now this explains a lot.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8ImrMkU.png[/IMG]
If this doesn't put shit sprinkles on top of the shit sundae I don't know what will. This fucking asshole is one of the least humble people on the entire planet for having 0 achievements, and then it turns out the ONE thing that he could claim he did on his own was rigged from the start? FUCK YOU PHIL PHISH I hope you go to prison you fucking piece of shit. You shit on so many other games and it turns out that you couldn't even push a good idea through by yourself. You are a worthless sack of shit.
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Now, don't get too excited. At this point we don't really (at least to my knowledge) have any confirmation of an actual investigation being triggered.
However, if the FBI actually DOES get involved, hoo boy it's gonna stir some shit up.
[quote]Kellee Santiago, in [B]2009[/B], invested money in Polytron which gave her voting rights in the company and a percentage stake in FEZ's Gross Profits. In [B]2011[/B] she became [B]Chair of the Awards Jury [/B]of IndieCade. Coincidentally, [B]2011[/B] was the year that FEZ won two major awards at IndieCade:[/quote]
How did this take so long to come out?
Phil Phish.
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/71368030/Reactions/1395699754063.jpg[/img]
This is going to be fucking great
[B]"ANGRY GAMERS TARGET PHIL FISH AND IGF MEMBERS IN NEW WAVE OF HARASSMENT!"[/B]- Kotaku etc. tomorrow
this is glorious, all of this is so glorious
[QUOTE]$25,000 fine and 20 years in prison per racketeering count[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4iLQDNTUtAw/UfWDfefeORI/AAAAAAAAA14/oqXFf7ienwI/s1600/DNVRtIW.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/bc/0b/eb/bc0bebf753e598aac1dca53c6e6919ee.jpg[/IMG]
And this is it.
This is the endgame right here.
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;45919699]-Phil Fish-
-Tom Cruise-[/QUOTE]
Why did you have to post a picture of Tom Cruise?
Now I can't stop staring at his misaligned teeth.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;45919779]Why did you have to post a picture of Tom Cruise?
Now I can't stop staring at his misaligned teeth.[/QUOTE]
I never noticed that until you mentioned it.
Now I am forced to stare.
this is silly, the indie dev community is so tightly knit that this shit just sounds like coincidence
[editline]7th September 2014[/editline]
i mean all the games listed are pretty good, what were the runner ups?
[QUOTE=Shadaez;45919802]this is silly, the indie dev community is so tightly knit that this shit just sounds like coincidence
[editline]7th September 2014[/editline]
i mean all the games listed are pretty good, what were the runner ups?[/QUOTE]
The brilliant part is whether or not this is a coincidence it is still illegal!
[QUOTE=Shadaez;45919802]this is silly, the indie dev community is so tightly knit that this shit just sounds like coincidence
[editline]7th September 2014[/editline]
i mean all the games listed are pretty good, what were the runner ups?[/QUOTE]
Doesn't mean its suddenly legal to do in any circumstance.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;45919825]The brilliant part is whether or not this is coincidence or not it is still illegal![/QUOTE]
alright i don't know enough about the law but i looked up racketeering and it doesn't sound anything like what they're accusing them of so I'm kinda confused, especially the supreme court case which deals with the government censoring the news??
that it is tightly knit is more damning than anything, really
[QUOTE=Shadaez;45919802]this is silly, the indie dev community is so tightly knit that this shit just sounds like coincidence
[editline]7th September 2014[/editline]
i mean all the games listed are pretty good, what were the runner ups?[/QUOTE]
Depression Quest beat out Papers Please
the judges were friends of zoe quinn and phil fish
[QUOTE=Shadaez;45919802]this is silly, the indie dev community is so tightly knit that this shit just sounds like coincidence
[editline]7th September 2014[/editline]
i mean all the games listed are pretty good, what were the runner ups?[/QUOTE]
One helluva coincidence to fund a game(s) production, then be on a judging board for said game(s), ensure said games win the thing you're a judge on, and said game(s) subsequently go on to be hits in the indie gaming scene.
Can only be coincidence :downs:
[B]-edit-[/B]
Forgot to add: Be an employee for the company developing the game you are judging.
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