Inscryption was the big winner at the 24th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards.
For the first time since 2019, the annual IFG awards were held in front of an audience of Game Developers Conference attendees.
Although video games continue to not be the most important thing in the world right now, host Kelly Wallick struck just the right tone as the achievements of the independent development community were celebrated.
It was a good night for Daniel Mullins and his team. Inscryption picked up the prestigious Seumas McNally Grand Prize, plus the awards for Excellence in Audio, Design, and Narrative.
Elsewhere, Papetura was the winner of the Excellence in Visual Art award, Dinosaur Polo Club picked up the publicly-voted Audience award for Mini Motorways, and Live Adventure won Best Student Game. Memory Card was the worthy recipient of this year’s Nuovo Award.
Here’s the complete list of IGF award winners and nominations. Congratulations to all.
Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards Nominees
Best Student Game
- Cai Cai Balão (Look Up Games)
- Abriss – build to destroy (Randwerk Games eG)
- Letter Lattice (Ethan Zarov)
- Smalllife (Yueqi Wu)
- Nainai’s Recipe (Fan Fang, Mai Hou)
- Live Adventure (Live Adventure Team)
Excellence in Audio
- Toem (Something We Made)
- Unpacking (Witch Beam)
- Jett: The Far Shore (Superbrothers A/V + Pine Scented)
- Mini Motorways (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- Sable (Shedworks)
- Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
Excellence in Design
- Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
- Unpacking (Witch Beam)
- Overboard! (inkle)
- Strange Horticulture (Bad Viking)
- Webbed (Sbug Games)
- Midnight Protocol (LuGus Studios)
Excellence in Narrative
- Last Call (Nina Freeman and Jake Jefferies)
- Neurocracy (Playthroughline)
- Closed Hands (Passenger)
- Overboard! (inkle)
- Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
- Unpacking (Witch Beam)
Excellence in Visual Art
- The Eternal Cylinder (ACE Team)
- Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery (Silver Lining Studio)
- Papetura (Petums)
- Fuzz Dungeon (Jeremy Couillard)
- The Wild at Heart (Moonlight Kids)
- Jett: The Far Shore (Superbrothers A/V + Pine Scented)
Nuovo Award
- Memory Card (Lily Zone)
- Okthryssia and Saturnia’s Bureaucratic Adventures (Outlands)
- Space Hole 2020 (Sam Atlas)
- Tux and Fanny (Ghost Time Games)
- Cruelty Squad (Consumer Softproducts)
- Sparkles & Gems (Resnijars)
- Fuzz Dungeon (Jeremy Couillard)
- Cuccchi (Fantastico Studio)
Audience Award
- Mini Motorways (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
- Unpacking (Witch Beam)
- Loop Hero (Four Quarters)
- The Eternal Cylinder (ACE Team)
- Cruelty Squad (Consumer Softproducts)
- Unsighted (Studio Pixel Punk)
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