La 18° edizione dell’Independent Games Festival avrà luogo dal 14 al 18 marzo durante la GDC di San Francisco. Tra i nominati che potrebbero vincere fino a 50,000 dollari abbiamo nomi del calibro di Her Story, Undertale e Darkest Dungeon.
Excellence in Visual Art
- Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- Panoramical (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga)
- Gnog (KO_OP)
- Armello (League of Geeks)
- Oxenfree (Night School Studio)
- Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios Inc.)
Menzioni d’onore: Forkride Grilltime Sloth (Black Pants Game Studio [Sebastian Stamm]); Epistory – Typing Chronicles (Fishing Cactus); Kingdom (noio & Licorice); Alto’s Adventure (Snowman); Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play); Astroneer (System Era Softworks)
Excellence in Narrative
- The Beginner’s Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.)
- Black Closet (Hanako Games)
- That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games)
- Her Story (Sam Barlow)
- Undertale (Toby Fox)
- The Magic Circle (Question)
Menzioni d’onore: 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. Burns)
Excellence in Design
- Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- Kingdom (noio & Licorice)
- Her Story (Sam Barlow)
- Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
- Superhot (SUPERHOT)
- Infinifactory (Zachtronics)
Menzioni d’onore: Gang Beasts (Boneloaf); Imbroglio (Michael Brough); Duskers (Misfits Attic); Chaos Reborn (Snapshot Games); TIS-100 (Zachtronics); Soft Body (Zeke Virant)
Excellence in Audio
- Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- Panoramical (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga)
- That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games)
- Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios Inc.)
- Lumini (Speelbaars)
- Undertale (Toby Fox)
Menzioni d’onore: 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
- The Beginner’s Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.)
- Panoramical (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga)
- Fantastic Contraption (Northway Games & Radial Games)
- Orchids To Dusk (Pol Clarissou)
- Her Story (Sam Barlow)
- Cibele (Star Maid Games)
- Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
- Progress (Tim Garbos, Martin Kvale and Joel Nyström)
Menzioni d’onore: 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
- Pitfall Planet (Bonfire Games)
- Ape Out (Gabe Cuzzillo)
- Beglitched (Jenny Jiao Hsia & Alec Thomson)
- Circa Infinity (Kenny Sun)
- Orchids To Dusk (Pol Clarissou)
- Chambara (team ok)
Menzioni d’onore: Anarcute (Anarteam); Gathering Sky (A Stranger Gravity); Not Everything is Flammable (DAM: David Shiyang Liu, Alex Hu and Mac Lotze); FAR (Mr. Whale’s Game Service); Sumer (Studio Wumpus); Bad Blood (Winnie Song)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios Inc.)
- Her Story (Sam Barlow)
- Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
- Superhot (SUPERHOT)
- Undertale (Toby Fox)
Menzioni d’onore: 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)
Fonte: Gamasutra