2013 Finalists & Winners

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
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), Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games)

Best Student Game

Zineth (Arcane Kids - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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)
Knights of Pen & Paper (Behold Studios - IESB, Instituto de Ensino Superior de Brasília and UnB, Universidade de Brasília)
Pulse (Team Pixel Pi - Vancouver Film School)
the mindfulxp volume (mindful xp Team)

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), The Moonlighters (University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division)

Excellence in Audio

140 (Jeppe Carlsen)
Bad Hotel (Lucky Frame)
Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
PixelJunk 4am (Q-Games)

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), Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace)

Excellence in Design

FTL: Faster than Light (Subset Games)
Samurai Gunn (Beau Blyth)
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), Spaceteam (Henry Smith)

Excellence in Narrative

Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
dys4ia (auntie pixelante)
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), The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)

Excellence in Visual Art

Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Guacamelee! (DrinkBox Studio)
Incredipede (Northway Games and Thomas Shahan)
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base)
Year Walk (Simogo)

Honorable mentions: Eleven (Christoffer Hedborg, Datahowler (Ross Edman)), FLY'N (Ankama Play), Hundreds (Semi Secret feat. aeiowu), The Bridge (Ty Taylor and Mario Castaneda), Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace)

Technical Excellence

Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
Intrusion 2 (Aleksey Abramenko)
LiquidSketch (Tobias Neukom)
Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
Perspective (DigiPen Widdershins)
StarForge (CodeHatch Corp.)

Honorable mentions: 140 (Jeppe Carlsen), Foldit (University of Washington), Gateways (Smudged Cat Games), Mobiloid (Monty Melby), Skulls of the Shogun (17-BIT)