[UPDATE: The 2006 Indie Games Con has been cancelled ! I decided to leave the listing here so you know about this, but don't buy any tickets for traveling to this event or you'll be in Eugene all by yourself!]

Sponsored by the great folks at Garage Games, the Independent Game Conference (Indie Games Con or IGC) has become a very popular annual event for many indie game development shops. Here's how they describe what it is:

IndieGamesCon (IGC) is a fun, informal and informative gathering of independent game developers from around the world. IGC is designed to be a summit meeting of like-minded developers with the shared goal to focus on collaboration and building community. This is an unprecedented opportunity to meet other indie developers, professional guest developers, hardware manufactures as well as the GarageGames staff.

If you're an indie developer or you're interested in networking with people who want to make games outside the big corporate machines, you really ought to give this conference a look. The people at Garage Games are really excited about making games and the community that they've brought together over the years has a ton of energy and motivation to continuing to build the strength of indie shops.