INDEPENDENT GAMES FESTIVAL WINNERS
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Nuovo Award:
Excellence in Visual Arts:
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Excellence in Audio:
Excellence in Design:
FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
Excellence in Narrative:
Best Student Game:
Technical Excellence:
Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
Audience Award:
FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
INDEPENDENT GAMES FESTIVAL FINALISTS
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
FTL: Faster than Light (Subset Games)
Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
Honorable mentions: Gone Home (The Fullbright Company); Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth); Super Hexagon (Terry Cavanagh); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe); and Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games)
Excellence in Visual Art:
Incredipede (Northway Games and Thomas Shahan)
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base)
Honorable mentions: Eleven (Christoffer Hedborg, Datahowler (Ross Edman)); FLY'N (Ankama Play); Hundreds (Semi Secret feat. aeiowu); The Bridge (Ty Taylor and Mario Castaneda); and Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace)
Technical Excellence:
Intrusion 2 (Aleksey Abramenko)
Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
Perspective (DigiPen Widdershins)
Honorable mentions: 140 (Jeppe Carlsen); Foldit (University of Washington); Gateways (Smudged Cat Games); Mobiloid (Monty Melby); and Skulls Of The Shogun (17-BIT)
Excellence in Design:
FTL: Faster than Light (Subset Games)
Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth)
Super Hexagon (Terry Cavanagh)
Super Space ____(David Scamehorn & Alexander Baard, DigiPen USA)
Honorable mentions: Helix (Michael Brough); Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games); Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation); rymdkapsel (martin jonasson, grapefrukt games); and Spaceteam (Henry Smith)
Excellence in Audio:
Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Honorable mentions: Dust: An Elysian Tail (Dean Dodrill - Creator and President, Humble Hearts LLC); FRACT OSC (Phosfiend Systems); Gone Home (The Fullbright Company); Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation); and Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace)
Excellence in Narrative:
Gone Home (The Fullbright Company)
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games)
Honorable mentions: 7 Grand Steps (Mousechief Co.); Analogue: A Hate Story (Christine Love); Goblet Grotto (thecatamites, j chastain, NEW VADERS); Papo & Yo (Minority Media); and The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)
Nuovo Award:
7 Grand Steps (Mousechief Co.)
Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
MirrorMoon (SantaRagione + BloodyMonkey)
Honorable mentions: Frog Fractions (Twinbeard); Renga (wallFour); Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe); and Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games)
Student Showcase Finalists:
ATUM (Sassybot Studio / Team Cupcake)
Back to Bed (Team 1UP - Danish Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment)
Blackwell's Asylum (Blackpipe - Danish Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment)
Farsh (Team Farsh - NHTV University of Applied Science)
Pulse (Team Pixel Pi - Vancouver Film School)
the mindfulxp volume (mindful xp Team)
Zineth (Arcane Kids - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Honorable mentions: Anodyne (University of Chicago and Carleton College); Chrono Disfunglement (DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore); Narcosis (ENJMIN); Plushy Knight (Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy); SerpenteS (ENJMIN); SneakSneak (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht); Tales from the Minus Lab (University of Southern California); and The Moonlighters (University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division)
