Da poche ore sono state annunciate le nomination dei IGF Awards, i premi per l’eccellenza nel campo dei giochi indipendenti. Il festival è stato fondato nel 1998 per aiutare e ispirare l’innovazione nello sviluppo di videogiochi e di riconoscere i migliori sviluppatori di videogiochi indipendenti. I finalisti dell’edizione di quest’anno sono Genesis Noir, Spiritfarer, Umurangi Generation, Paradise Killer, Teardown e Chicory: A Colorful Tale I vincitori dei IGF Awards saranno annunciati il prossimo 21 luglio 2021 in diretta streaming.

IGF Awards: tutte le nomination

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

• Paradise Killer (Kaizen Game Works)
• Teardown (Tuxedo Labs)
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale (The Chicory Team)
• Genesis Noir (Feral Cat Den)
• Umurangi Generation (Origame Digital)
• Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus)

Excellence in Audio

• Say No! More (Studio Fizbin)
• Blind Drive (Lo-Fi People)
• Sunlight (Krillbite Studio)
• Genesis Noir (Feral Cat Den)
• Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus)
• A Monster’s Expedition (Through Puzzling Exhibitions) (Draknek & Friends)

Best Student Game

• Vessels (Local Space Survey Corps, LLC)
• Dorfromantik (Toukana Interactive)
• Some Old Stuff (Hao Fan, Harry (Weizhong) Chen, Haku (Minyan Cai), Emi Schaufeld)
• Rainy Season (Inasa Fujio)
• SYMPHONIA (Guillaume Roux, Nicolas Derio, Pierre Vrel, Guillaume Gille, Alexis Grand, Simon Larguier, Martin Lepretre, Corentin Pauvrasseau, Kilian Dufour, Alexandre Mansois, Quentin Vernet, Hicham Benrhannou, Olivier Esman)
• Hadr (Dominik Konečný of Ateliér Duchů)

Excellence in Design

• Teardown (Tuxedo Labs)
• Disc Room (Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Terri Vellmann, Doseone)
• Shady Part of Me (Douze Dixièmes)
• There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension (Draw Me A Pixel)
• Signs of the Sojourner (Echodog Games)
• A Monster’s Expedition (Through Puzzling Exhibitions) (Draknek & Friends)

Excellence in Narrative

• Lost Words: Beyond the Page (Sketchbook Games)
• Across the Grooves (Nova-box)
• Genesis Noir (Feral Cat Den)
• Umurangi Generation (Origame Digital)
• Haven (The Game Bakers)
• In Other Waters (Jump Over the Age)

Excellence in Visual Art

• Genesis Noir (Feral Cat Den)
• Arrog (Hermanos Magia and Leap Game Studios)
• In Other Waters (Jump Over the Age)
• Shady Part of Me (Douze Dixièmes)
• Call of the Sea (Out of the Blue)
• Carto (Sunhead Games)

Nuovo Award

• Blaseball (The Game Band)
• Nightmare Temptation Academy (Lena NW & Costcodreamgurl)
• THAT NIGHT, STEEPED BY BLOOD RIVER (Taylor Swietanski)
• Airplane Mode (Bacronym)
• Welcome to Elk (Triple Topping)
• Umurangi Generation (Origame Digital)
• Chasing Light (Vittgen Inc.)
• Kristallijn (Gaël Bourhis)