IGF 2016 – Die Finalisten
Bereits zum 18. Male findet vom 14. bis 18. März 2016 das Independent Games Festival statt. Wie gewohnt werden auch dieses Jahr im Rahmen dessen die IGF Awards verliehen, sozusagen die Oscars der Indie Games und dies sind die Nominierten in den verschiedenen Kategorien:
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Darkest Dungeon
Her Story
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Mini Metro
SUPERHOT
UNDERTALE
Honorable mentions: Affordable Space Adventures (KnapNok Games and Nifflas‘ Games); Cibele (Star Maid Games); OXENFREE (Night School Studio); PANORAMICAL (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga); Soft Body (Zeke Virant); That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games); The Beginner’s Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.); and Twelve Minutes (Luis Antonio).
Excellence in Visual Art:
Armello
Darkest Dungeon
GNOG
Mini Metro
OXENFREE
PANORAMICAL
Honorable mentions: Alto’s Adventure (Snowman); Astroneer (System Era Softworks); Epistory – Typing Chronicles (Fishing Cactus); Forkride Grilltime Sloth (Black Pants Game Studio / Sebastian Stamm); Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play); und Kingdom (noio and Licorice).
Excellence in Design:
Her Story
Infinifactory
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Kingdom
Mini Metro
SUPERHOT
Honorable mentions: Chaos Reborn (Snapshot Games); Duskers (Misfits Attic); Gang Beasts (Boneloaf); Imbroglio (Michael Brough); Soft Body (Zeke Virant); und TIS-100 (Zachtronics).
Excellence in Audio:
Darkest Dungeon
Lumini
Mini Metro
PANORAMICAL
That Dragon, Cancer
UNDERTALE
Honorable mentions: GNOG (KO_OP); Heart Forth, Alicia (Alonso Martin); Inside My Radio (Seaven Studio); Kingdom (noio and Licorice); OXENFREE (Night School Studio); und The Beginner’s Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.).
Excellence in Narrative:
Black Closet
Her Story
That Dragon, Cancer
The Beginner’s Guide
The Magic Circle
UNDERTALE
Honorable mentions: Cibele (Star Maid Games); Contradiction (Tim Follin / Baggy Cat Ltd); Orion Trail (Schell Games); OXENFREE (Night School Studio); und The Writer Will Do Something (Tom Bissell and Matthew S. Burns).
Nuovo Award:
Cibele
Fantastic Contraption
Her Story
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
orchids to dusk
PANORAMICAL
Progress
The Beginner’s Guide
Honorable mentions: Affordable Space Adventures (KnapNok Games and Nifflas‘ Games); ENOUGH (Cabbibo); Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play); Sage Solitaire (Zach Gage); Sentree (Glitchnap); TIS-100 (Zachtronics); und Vignettes (Pol Clarissou andArmel Gibson).
Best Student Game:
Ape Out
Beglitched
Chambara
Circa Infinity
orchids to dusk
Pitfall Planet
Honorable mentions: Anarcute (Anarteam); BADBLOOD (NYU Game Center); FAR (Zurich University of the Arts); Gathering Sky (A Stranger Gravity); Not Everything is Flammable (Carnegie Mellon University – Entertainment Technology Center); und Sumer (New York University).
Weitere Infos zum Festival findet ihr unter igf.com.
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