Maybe The Game Awards may be the most popular “awards show” for video games, but it is neither the only nor the most prestigious. Just as the Independent Spirit awards the best of independent cinema, the Independent Games Festival (IGF) celebrates the best of the ‘indie’ side of video games and these are the nominees for the year 2022.
The 2022 Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards will be presented during this year’s Game Developers Conference. This will be held on Wednesday, March 23 and they will be able to see it live in el canal de Twitch de GDC.
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)
Honorable mentions: Severed Steel (Greylock Studios), A Musical Story (Glee-Cheese Studios), Death’s Door
EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN
- Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
- Unpacking (Witch Beam)
- Overboard! (inkle)
- Strange Horticulture (Bad Viking)
- Webbed (Sbug Games)
- Midnight Protocol (LuGus Studios)
Honorable mentions: Loop Hero (Four Quarters), Unsighted (Studio Pixel Punk), Mini Motorways (Dinosaur Polo Club), Card Shark (Nerial), KeyWe (Stonewheat & Sons) y Sunshine Heavy Industries (Daisyowl Games)
EXCELLENCE IN NARRATIVE
- Last Call (Nina Freeman and Jake Jefferies)
- Neurocracy (Playthroughline)
- Closed Hands (Passenger)
- Overboard! (inkle)
- Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
- Unpacking (Witch Beam)
Mhonors: Card Shark (Nerial), Norco (Geography of Robots), The Big Con (Mighty Yell), Tux and Fanny (Ghost Time Games), Opus: Echo of Starsong (Sigono), Sable (Shedworks) and Blackhaven (Historiated Games)
EXCELLENCE IN VISUAL ARTS
- 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)
Honorable mentions: Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games), A Musical Story (Glee-Cheese Studios), Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab), Saturnalia (Holy Reason), Stonefly (Flight School Studio), Crystals (Dreams Uncorporated, Syck)
BEST STUDENT GAME
- Fall Fall Balloon (Look Up Games)
- Abriss – build to destroy (Edge Games eG)
- Letter Lattice (Ethan Zarov)
- SmallLife (Yueqi Wu)
- Nainai’s Recipe (Fan Fang, Mai Hou)
- Live Adventure (Live Adventure Team)
Honorable mentions: Astreia’s Gift (Femy Nassirou & Hervé Blanchot), There You Are (Funky Dango), The Bleeding Tree (No Input Interactive), dumpling.love (the parks staff), Lysfangha (Baptiste Marsac & Daphne Pauchet-Deloffre), Jivana (Team Jivana), Hook Up (Team Hook Up) y Come with Me (Xin Ye)
NEW 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)
- Weather in Cuccchi (Fantastic Studio)
Honorable mentions: Last Call (Nina Freeman and Jake Jefferies), The Shape of Time (xpaidia studio during sunset), The Under Presents (Tender Claws), ~Song of Homunculus~ (Diamond Ace (Lily Zone + Zoë Sparks)), Card Shark (Nerial) and The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Falling Squirrel)
IGF AWARDS 2022: 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)
Honorable mentions: Toem (Something We Made), Norco (Geography of Robots), Overboard! (inkle), Satumalia (Holy Reason), Dodgeball Academia (Pocket Trap), Webbed (Sbug Games) y Fuzz Dungeon (Jeremy Couillard).
And you, who are nominated for the 2022 Independent Games Festival (IGF) awards? They still have time to try a few before the award ceremony.
Fountain: IGF
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