Published , by Ozzie Mejia
Published , by Ozzie Mejia
The annual Game Developers Conference is normally capped off by a pair of award shows: the Game Developers Choice Awards and the Independent Games Festival Awards. On Tuesday, the folks at Informa Tech revealed the finalists for the latter, celebrating the best in indie game design.
Breakout hit Tunic and under-the-radar indie gem Betrayal at Club Low collected three nominations a piece. Both are nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize along with The Case of the Golden Idol, Immortality, Neon White, and Not For Broadcast.
Here are the full nominations, all viewable from the Independent Games Festival website:
Honorable Mentions: A Mallard's Song (Ducky Elford), Error143 (Jenny Vi Pham), Paper Planet (Doodlegames), The Longest Walk (Alexander Tarvet), zenosyne (Ezra Szanton)
Honorable Mentions: Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios), Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster), Immortality (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid), Melatonin (Half Asleep), Neon White (Angel Matrix), Tinykin (Splashteam)
Honorable Mentions: Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age), Cursed to Golf (Chuhai Labs), Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (niceplay games), Swordship (Digital Kingdom), Terra Nil (Free Lives), Tinykin (Splashteam)
Honorable Mentions: Eternal Threads (Cosmonaut Studios), Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg (Fuzzy Ghost), Roadwarden (Moral Anxiety Studio), The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games), The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (Cloak and Dagger Games), The Wreck (The Pixel Hunt)
Honorable Mentions: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games), Melatonin (Half Asleep), NAIAD (HiWarp), Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (niceplay games), Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox), Swordship (Digital Kingdom), Terra Nil (Free Lives), Voodoo Detective (Short Sleeve Studio LLC)
Honorable Mentions: Atuel (Matajuegos), Ib (kouri), Not For Broadcast (NotGames), Of Moons and Mania (Absurd Walls), RPG Time: The Legend of Wright (DeskWorks Inc.)
Honorable Mentions: Tinykin (Splashteam), Terra Nil (Free Lives), RPG Time: The Legend of Wright (DeskWorks Inc.), Roadwarden (Moral Anxiety Studio), Hardspace: Shipbreaker (Blackbird Interactive), Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age)
The Independent Games Festival has recognized and honored many widely recognized indie titles in past years, including last year's Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner, Inscryption. The IGF and Game Developers Choice Awards are expected to run during this year's Game Developers Conference week, which will take place from March 20-24. We'll be watching both shows and we'll report on the big winners, so be sure to follow this story here at Shacknews.