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Glory for Indie Games as IGF Nominees Are Revealed
Indie breakthrough games such as 80 Days, The Talos Principle, and This War Of Minehave made the list of Grand Prize nominees in this year's 17th annual IGF (Independent Games Festival) awards.
The full list of finalists for the 2015 IGF Awards shows more than 30 games have made the cut, whittled down from nearly 650 entrants. The final winners will be announced at the awards event on March 4 in San Francisco, coinciding with the start of this year's Game Developers Conference 2015 expo.
Excellence In Visual Art
Excellence In Narrative
Excellence In Design
Excellence In Audio
Nuovo Award
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
A list of honourable mentions--games that just missed the finalist phase--can be found here.
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The full list of finalists for the 2015 IGF Awards shows more than 30 games have made the cut, whittled down from nearly 650 entrants. The final winners will be announced at the awards event on March 4 in San Francisco, coinciding with the start of this year's Game Developers Conference 2015 expo.
Excellence In Visual Art
- Donut County (Ben Esposito)
- Lumino City (State of Play Games)
- Else Heart.Break() (Niklas Akerblad, Erik Svedang, et al.)
- Memory of a Broken Dimension (XRA)
- Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith)
- Oquonie (XXIIVV and Kokorobot)
Excellence In Narrative
- 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
- Coming Out Simulator 2014 (Nicky Case)
- Ice-Bound: A Novel of Reconfiguration (Down to the Wire)
- Pry (Tender Claws)
- This War of Mine (11 Bit Studios)
- Three Fourths Home ([Bracket]Games)
Excellence In Design
- 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
- Framed (Loveshack)
- Invisible Inc. (Klei Entertainment)
- Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis & Nikita Mikros)
- Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)
- The Talos Principle (Croteam)
Excellence In Audio
- Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure (SuperChop Games)
- Phonopath (Kevin Regamey)
- Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
- The Sailor's Dream (Simogo Games)
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
- Thumper (Drool)
Nuovo Award
- Become A Great Artist In Just 10 Seconds (Michael Brough and Andi McClure)
- Bounden (Game Oven)
- Desert Golfing (Captain Games)
- Elegy For A Dead World (Dejobaan Games & Popcannibal)
- How Do You Do It? (Nina Freeman, Emmett Butler, Jonathan Kittaka and Deckman Coss)
- Plug & Play (Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei / Etter Studio)
- Rooftop Cop (Stephen Lawrence Clark)
- Tetrageddon Games (Nathalie Lawhead)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
- Invisible Inc. (Klei Entertainment)
- Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)
- The Talos Principle (Croteam)
- Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith)
- This War of Mine (11 Bit Studios)
A list of honourable mentions--games that just missed the finalist phase--can be found here.
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