Independent Game Festival ya tiene candidatos a juegos del año

La entrega de premios más popular entre los desarrolladores independientes es, y de ahí su nombre, el Independent Games Festival (IGF) que se celebra cada año junto a la GDC, en marzo. Entre sus galardonados hay títulos con mucho prestigio y otros más tapados,
tales como Minecraft, Fez, Papers, Please o Her Story.

La organización ha presentado a los nominados de la edición IGF 2018, entre los que están Night in the Woods, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Into the Breach y Baba is You. Hay varias categorías distintas, así que podemos encontrar otros juegos en algunas de ellas como West of Loathing, Heat Signature o Cuphead. El juego de StudioMDHR no ha recibido el mismo cariño que en otros sitios, pero al menos está presente.

Las categorías con los juegos nominados y los que se han quedado a las puertas son:

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)


• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)


• West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications)


• Into the Breach (Subset Games)


• Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments)


• Baba is You (Hempuli)

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

• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)


• Cuphead (StudioMDHR)


• Echo (ULTRA ULTRA)


• Luna (Funomena)


• The Gardens Between (The Voxel Agents)


• Chuchel (Amanita Design)

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

• Tormentor X Punisher (e-studio)


• Cuphead (StudioMDHR)


• Vignettes (Skeleton Business)


• Rain World (VIDEOCULT)


• Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)


• Celeste (Matt Makes Games)

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

• Into the Breach (Subset Games)


• Shenzhen I/O (Zachtronics)


• Wilmot's Warehouse (Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett, Eli Rainsberry)


• Baba Is You (Hempuli)


• Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)


• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)

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

• Tacoma (Fullbright)


• Attentat 1942 (Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)


• Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games)


• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)


• Butterfly Soup (Brianna Lei)


• Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)

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

• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)


• Tarotica Voo Doo (TPM.CO SOFT WORKS)


• 10 Mississippi (Karina Popp)


• A Mortician's Tale (Laundry Bear Games)


• Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm)


• Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)


• Baba Is You (Hempuli)


• Kids (Playables)

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

• IO Interloper (DANG!)


• Don't Make Love (Maggese)


• Penny Blue Finds a Clue (DigiPen Team Cactus Curse)


• We Were Here (Total Mayhem Games)


• Baba Is You (Hempuli)


• Guardian of the Gears (DigiPen Team Studio 76)

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)