2015

Independent Games Festival Winners


 

Seumas McNally Grand Prize:

Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)

 

Nuovo Award:

Tetrageddon (Nathalie Lawhead)

 

Excellence in Visual Art:

Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith of Vectorpark)

 

Excellence in Audio:

Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure (SuperChop Games)

 

Excellence in Design:

Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)

 

Excellence in Narrative:

80 DAYS (inkle)

 

Best Student Game:

Close your (GoodbyeWorld Games - University of Southern California)

 

Audience Award:

This War Of Mine (11 bit studios)

 

Independent Games Festival Finalists


 

Seumas McNally Grand Prize: 

80 DAYS (inkle)

Invisible, Inc. (Klei Entertainment)

Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith of Vectorpark)

Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)

The Talos Principle (Croteam)

This War of Mine (11 bit studios)

 

Honorable mentions: Donut County (Ben Esposito); Endless Legend (Amplitude Studios);Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis & Nikita Mikros); Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games); The Sailor's Dream (Simogo); and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

 

Excellence in Visual Arts:

Donut County (Ben Esposito)

else Heart.Break() (Niklas Åkerblad, Erik Svedäng)

Lumino City (State of Play Games)

Memory of a Broken Dimension (XRA)

Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith of Vectorpark)

Oquonie (xxiivv and kokorobot)

 

Honorable mentions: Crawl (Powerhoof); Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play); Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine); Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club); The Sailor's Dream (Simogo); andThe Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

 

Excellence in Design:

80 DAYS (inkle)

FRAMED (Loveshack)

Invisible, Inc. (Klei Entertainment)

Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis and Nikita Mikros)

Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)

The Talos Principle (Croteam)

 

Honorable mentions: Desert Golfing (Captain Games); Dungeon of the Endless (Amplitude Studios); Endless Legend (Amplitude Studios); Helix (Michael Brough); Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Create Games); and Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)

 

Excellence in Audio: 

Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure (SuperChop Games)

Phonopath (Kevin Regamey)

Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)

The Sailor's Dream (Simogo)

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Thumper (Drool)

 

Honorable mentions: Deep Under the Sky (Rich Edwards and Colin Northway); FOTONICA(Santa Ragione); Goat Simulator (Coffee Stain Studios); Hotline Miami 2 (Dennaton);Nuclear Throne (Vlambeer); and Smash Hit (Mediocre)

 

Excellence in Narrative:

80 DAYS (inkle)

Coming Out Simulator 2014 (Nicky Case)

Ice-Bound: A Novel of Reconfiguration (Down to the Wire)

PRY (Tender Claws)

This War of Mine (11 bit studios)

Three Fourths Home ([bracket]games)

 

Honorable mentions: Curtain (Llaura, dreamfeeel); Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) (Upper One Games / E-Line Media); Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds); The Fall (Over The Moon);The Sailor's Dream (Simogo); and The Talos Principle (Croteam)

 

Nuovo Award:

BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS (Andi McClure and Michael Brough)

Bounden (Game Oven)

Desert Golfing (Captain Games)

Elegy for a Dead World (Dejobaan Games & Popcannibal)

how do you Do It? (Nina Freeman, Emmett Butler, Jonathan Kittaka, and Deckman Coss)

Plug & Play (Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei/Etter Studio)

Rooftop Cop (Stephen Lawrence Clark)

Tetrageddon Games (Nathalie Lawhead)

 

Honorable mentions: Curtain (Llaura, dreamfeeel); Ice-Bound: A Novel of Reconfiguration(Down to the Wire); International Jetpack Conference (Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish);Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds); Phonopath (Kevin Regamey); and Push Me Pull You (House House)

 

Student Showcase Finalists:

a•part•ment (Team a•part•ment)

Close Your (GoodbyeWorld Games)

Downwell (Ojiro Fumoto)

Even the Stars (Pol Clarissou/Nicholas Gavan)

Gemini (Echostone Games)

Interloper (Monogon Games)

Rooftop Cop (Stephen Lawrence Clark)

Stellar Smooch (Alec Thomson/Jenny Jiao Hsia)

 

Honorable mentions: A Story About My Uncle (Södertörn University); Ahoooj (FAMU, University of West Bohemia, CVUT FEL, and UMPRUM); Circles (University of the Arts Utrecht); Drew and the Floating Labyrinth (University of Windsor); Lisa (Elzendaal College Boxmeer); and Mecha Trigger (Michigan State University)