Nintendo President Iwata and game design overlord of our hearts Miyamoto played World of Goo last week - and they liked it! Today, Iwata mentioned it as a part of a presentation in Japan - here’s a translated text version and video (our little mention is at 29:00)

We are honored they even know we exist. Thanks, as always, to Dan and Tom at Nintendo!

What a fun week, indie developers are elusive little suckers, so we tried to collect-em-all in photos. Some of them got away. Here are the ones that didn’t.

IGF 2008, Year of the Monocle. Edmund McMillen’s unmistakable silhouette looks on.

Cactus just made 4 games in the time it took to take this picture. Joakim Sandberg, retro hero on the right, Kyle Gabler surrounded by Sweden.

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