Decisions, decisions
Leave it to the IGF to remind me just how jam-packed my backlog is these days.
The finalists are here for the2018 Independent Games Festival, including nods to recent favorites likeCuphead,Tacoma,Tooth and Tail,Night in the Woods,Heat Signature,West of Loathing, andA Mortician’s Tale. There’s also a lot of love for the blood-boilingGetting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
We’ll find out the winners on March 21 during the annual Game Developers Conference. This year, League of Geeks (Armello) co-founder Trent Kusters is hosting the IGF award ceremony.
Even the honorable mentions are good as hell!
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Honorable Mentions:Tacoma(Fullbright);Rain World(VIDEOCULT);Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator(Game Grumps);Cosmic Top Secret(klassefilm);Hollow Knight(Team Cherry);Cuphead(StudioMDHR);Everything Is Going to Be OK(Nathalie Lawhead)
Excellence in Visual Art
Honorable Mentions:Jettomero: Hero of the Universe(Ghost Time Games);Dead Cells(Motion Twin);AER – Memories of Old(Forgotten Key);Tooth and Tail(Pocketwatch Games);Rain World(VIDEOCULT);Shape of the World(Hollow Tree Games);Hollow Knight(Team Cherry)
Excellence in Audio
Honorable Mentions:Tumbleseed(Benedict Fritz, Greg Wohlwend, Joel Corelitz, David Laskey and Jenna Blazevich);Hollow Knight(Team Cherry);Tacoma(Fullbright);Tooth and Tail(Pocketwatch Games);Million Onion Hotel(Onion Games);Night in the Woods(Infinite Fall)
Excellence in Design
Honorable Mentions:Heat Signature(Suspicious Developments);Dead Cells(Motion Twin);Factorio(Wube Software);Space Pirate Trainer(I-Illusions);Battle Chef Brigade(Trinket Studios)
Excellence in Narrative
Honorable Mentions:A Mortician’s Tale(Laundry Bear Games);Lost Memories Dot Net(Star Maid Games);Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator(Game Grumps);Bury me, my Love(The Pixel Hunt, Figs and ARTE France);Cosmic Top Secret(klassefilm);West of Loathing(Asymmetric Publications);Rakuen(Laura Shigihara)
Nuovo Award
Honorable Mentions:Where the Water Tastes Like Wine(Dim Bulb Games);IO Interloper(DANG!);The Norwood Suite(Cosmo D Studios);Cheap Golf(Pixeljam);Witchball(S.L.Clark);Million Onion Hotel(Onion Games)
Best Student Game
Honorable Mentions:Crewsaders(Titan Squad);A.L.F.R.E.D.(Hugo Lefevre, Joseph Reichenbach, Romain Jaohar-Gaillard, Garance Royere Lebigre, Nicolas Tham, Marion Speiser, Delphine Migeot de Baran, Song Huang);MOLOCH(Seemingly Pointless);Kyklo’s Code(Cube Factory);Membrane(Perfect Hat / Seth S. Scott);That Blooming Feeling(The Tots Team);Tell Me What You See(Pesky Bees)
