The Nominees For The Independent Games Festival 2013 Are…
The official list of nominees for the 15th Annual Independent Games Festival have been announced, with plenty of familiar and deserving names making the cut.
The likes of FTL: Faster Than Light, Hotline Miami, Cart Life and Little Inferno are up for multiple awards, split across technical achievements in art, design and audio among the prizes on offer. Over 500 games were submitted for consideration before being narrowed down to the final list, with notable honourable mentions for each prize including Dust: An Elysian Tale and Fly’n among others. Such is the difficult task of choosing nominations these days that such wonderful games couldn’t make the list, which just goes to prove how high the quality level has become.
The biggest prize on offer, the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, features five of the greatest titles of the year vying for the $30,000 award. You can read the full list of nominees below:
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
- Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
- FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
- Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
- Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
- Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Excellence in Visual Art:
- Incredipede (Northway Games and Thomas Shahan)
- Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
- Guacamelee! (Drinkbox Studios)
- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base)
- Year Walk (Simogo)
Technical Excellence:
- StarForge (CodeHatch)
- Perspective (DigiPen Widdershins)
- Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
- Intrusion 2 (Aleksey Abramenko)
- LiquidSketch (Tobias Neukom)
Excellence in Design:
- Samurai Gunn (Beau Blyth)
- FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
- Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth)
- Super Hexagon (Terry Cavanagh)
- Super Space ______ (David Scamehorn & Alexander Baard/DigiPen)
Excellence in Audio:
- Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
- Bad Hotel (Lucky Frame)
- 140 (Jeppe Carlsen)
- Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
- Pixeljunk 4AM (Q-Games)
Excellence in Narrative:
- Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games)
- Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
- Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
- Dys4ia (Auntie Pixelante)
- Gone Home (The Fullbright Company)
Nuovo:
Designed ‘to honor abstract… and unconventional game development’.]
- Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
- Spaceteam (Henry Smith)
- Dys4ia (Auntie Pixelante)
- Bientot l’ete (Tale of Tales)
- 7 Grand Steps (Mousechief)
- MirrorMoon (SantaRagione + BloodyMonkey)
- VESPER.5 (Michael Brough)
- Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
The winners will be announced at the Game Developers Choice Awards this March. For more on the awards along with further information on the festival itself, visit the IGF website. On behalf of everyone at IGM, we wish all the nominees good luck.
