The 18 th Annual IGF Awards themselves will once again be hosted by Nathan Vella, co-founder & president of Toronto-based independent developer, Capybara Games. Honorable Mentions: The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.) Panoramical (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga) Affordable Space Adventures (KnapNok Games and Nifflas' Games) Twelve Minutes (Luis Antonio) Oxenfree (Night School Studio) That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games) Cibele (Star Maid Games) Soft Body (Zeke Virant) I> Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios Inc.) Whale's Game Service) Sumer (Studio Wumpus) Bad Blood (Winnie Song) Seumas McNally Grand Prize Honorable Mentions: Anarcute (Anarteam) Gathering Sky (A Stranger Gravity) Not Everything is Flammable (DAM: David Shiyang Liu, Alex Hu and Mac Lotze) FAR (Mr. Beglitched (Jenny Jiao Hsia & Alec Thomson).Honorable Mentions: Enough (cabbibo) Sentree (Glitchnap) Affordable Space Adventures (KnapNok Games and Nifflas' Games) Vignettes (Pol Clarissou, Armel Gibson) Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play) Sage Solitaire (Zach Gage) TIS-100 (Zachtronics) Best Student Game Progress (Tim Garbos, Martin Kvale and Joel Nyström).Fantastic Contraption (Northway Games & Radial Games).Honorable Mentions: Heart Forth, Alicia (Alonso Martin) The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.) Gnog (KO_OP) Oxenfree (Night School Studio) Kingdom (noio & Licorice) Inside My Radio (Seaven Studio) Nuovo Award Honorable Mentions: Gang Beasts (Boneloaf) Imbroglio (Michael Brough) Duskers (Misfits Attic) Chaos Reborn (Snapshot Games) TIS-100 (Zachtronics) Soft Body (Zeke Virant) Excellence in Audio Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games).Honorable Mentions: Oxenfree (Night School Studio) Orion Trail (Schell Games) Cibele (Star Maid Games) Contradiction (Tim Follin / Baggy Cat Ltd) The Writer Will Do Something (Tom Bissell and Matthew S. The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.).Honorable Mentions: Forkride Grilltime Sloth (Black Pants Game Studio ) Epistory - Typing Chronicles (Fishing Cactus) Kingdom (noio & Licorice) Alto's Adventure (Snowman) Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play) Astroneer (System Era Softworks) Excellence in Narrative Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios Inc.).Panoramical (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga).The full list of finalists for each category of the 2016 Independent Games Festival, with additional "honorable mentions," is as follows: Excellence in Visual Art ![]() Both the IGF Awards and the Game Developers Choice Awards will be livestreamed on Twitch at the following link on March 16th: Winners of the IGF Awards will also receive over $50,000 of prizes in various categories, including the $30,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize. ![]() The IGF Awards will immediately precede the Game Developers Choice Awards, which recognizes the best games of the year across all sections of video game development. The winners of the IGF Awards will be announced at the Independent Games Festival Awards which take place the evening of Wednesday, March 16th at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center. ![]() Other titles which have received multiple nominations and honorable mentions include Red Hook Studios' challenging roguelike turn-based RPG with a gothic theme, Darkest Dungeon, the mesmerizing audio-visual musical adventure game by Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga, Panoramical, Toby Fox's subversively non-violent old-school RPG, Undertale, and Numinous Games' deeply personal and emotional journey through a young boy's cancer treatment, That Dragon, Cancer. These expert juries specializing in distinct disciplines for each category then selected the IGF finalists after playing, discussing and rigorously evaluating them.Īmong the slate of artfully crafted titles, a few projects in particular have received award nominations in multiple categories, including Dinosaur Polo Club's minimalistic subway layout game Mini Metro, and Sam Barlow's engrossing crime fiction game Her Story. The Independent Games Festival (IGF) judges have announced the slate of finalists for the esteemed 18 th annual awards, which honors the most influential, innovative and exemplary projects in independent game development.Īfter an initial round of judging by over 400 evaluators, the more than 750 entries for the 2016 IGF Awards were distributed to a group of experts from across the industry for final consideration.
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