The Independent Games Festival has announced the nominees and the honorable mentions for this year’s series of awards linked to the ever growing and more successful indie genre, which will be given to winners during a ceremony that will take place on March 27 in San Francisco.
The full list of games selected for final consideration includes, according to CVG:
Excellence In Visual Art
Incredipede - Northway Games and Thomas Shahan Kentucky Route Zero - Cardboard Computer Guacalamelee! - Drinkbox Studios Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - Asteroid Base Year Walk - Simogo
Honorable mentions go to: Fly'n, Eleven, The Bridge, Thomas Was Alone and Hundreds
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
Honorable mentions: Goblet Grotto, Analogue: A Hate Story, Papo & Yo, The Stanley Parable and 7 Grand Steps.
Technical Excellence
StarForge - CodeHatch Perspective - DigiPen Widdershins Little Inferno - Tomorrow Corporation Intrusion 2 - Aleksey Abramenko LiquidSketch - Tobias Neukom
Honorable mentions: Mobiloid, Skulls Of The Shogun, Foldit, 140 and Gateways.
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
Honorable mentions: Spaceteam, Helix, Little Inferno, Rymdkapsel and Hotline Miami.
Excellence In Audio
Kentucky Route Zero - Cardboard Computer Bad Hotel - Lucky Frame 140 - Jeppe Carlsen Hotline Miami - Dennaton Games Pixeljunk 4AM - Q-Games
Honorable mentions: Thomas Was Alone, Little Inferno, Gone Home, Fract OSC and Dust: An Elysian Tale.
Nuovo Award
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
Honorable mentions: Renga, Starseed Pilgrim, Frog Fractions, Thirty Flights of Loving and The Stanley Parable.
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
Honorable mentions: Gone Home, Thirty Flights of Loving, The Stanley Parable, Super Hexagon and Starseed Pilgrim.