Independent Games Festival Winners
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Nuovo Award:
Excellence in Visual Art:
Oxenfree (Night School Studio)
Excellence in Audio:
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Excellence in Design:
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
Excellence in Narrative:
Best Student Game:
Beglitched (Jennifer Jiao Hsia and Alec Thomson)
Audience Award:
Independent Games Festival Finalists
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Games)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Honorable mentions: Affordable Space Adventures (KnapNok Games and Nifflas' Games); Cibele (Star Maid Games); OXENFREE (Night School Studio); PANORAMICAL (Fernando Ramallo and David Kanaga); Soft Body (Zeke Virant); That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games); The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.); and Twelve Minutes (Luis Antonio)
Excellence in Visual Art:
Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Games)
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
OXENFREE (Night School Studio)
PANORAMICAL (Fernando Ramallo and David Kanaga)
Honorable mentions: Alto's Adventure (Snowman); Astroneer (System Era Softworks); Epistory - Typing Chronicles (Fishing Cactus); Forkride Grilltime Sloth (Black Pants Game Studio / Sebastian Stamm); Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play); and Kingdom (noio and Licorice)
Excellence in Design:
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
Kingdom (Thomas van den Berg and Marco Bancale)
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Honorable mentions: Chaos Reborn (Snapshot Games); Duskers (Misfits Attic); Gang Beasts (Boneloaf); Imbroglio (Michael Brough); Soft Body (Zeke Virant); and TIS-100 (Zachtronics)
Excellence in Audio:
Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Games)
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
PANORAMICAL (Fernando Ramallo and David Kanaga)
That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games)
Honorable mentions: GNOG (KO_OP); Heart Forth, Alicia (Alonso Martin); Inside My Radio (Seaven Studio); Kingdom (noio and Licorice); OXENFREE (Night School Studio); and The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.)
Excellence in Narrative:
That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games)
The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited, Ltd.)
Honorable mentions: Cibele (Star Maid Games); Contradiction (Tim Follin / Baggy Cat Ltd); Orion Trail (Schell Games); OXENFREE (Night School Studio); and The Writer Will Do Something (Tom Bissell and Matthew S. Burns)
Nuovo Award:
Fantastic Contraption (Northway Games and Radial Games)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
orchids to dusk (Pol Clarissou, Marskye, KO_OP)
PANORAMICAL (Fernando Ramallo and David Kanaga)
Progress (Tim Garbos, Martin Kvale and Joel Nystrom)
The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited, Ltd.)
Honorable mentions: Affordable Space Adventures (KnapNok Games and Nifflas' Games); ENOUGH (Cabbibo); Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play); Sage Solitaire (Zach Gage); Sentree (Glitchnap); TIS-100 (Zachtronics); and Vignettes (Pol Clarissou and Armel Gibson)
Best Student Game:
Beglitched (Jennifer Jiao Hsia and Alec Thomson)
orchids to dusk (Pol Clarissou, Marskye, KO_OP)
Pitfall Planet (Bonfire Games)
Honorable mentions: Anarcute (Anarteam); BADBLOOD (NYU Game Center); FAR (Zurich University of the Arts); Gathering Sky (A Stranger Gravity); Not Everything is Flammable (Carnegie Mellon University - Entertainment Technology Center); and Sumer (New York University)
