

These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. NEXT: Please Stop Giving Gen 1 Pokemon Regional Variants Inscryption and Unpacking in particular have both been highly acclaimed for their numerous innovations. Independent developers get a little bit of exposure for their game and some well deserved recognition for their artistic achievements. The festival helps to highlight smaller games in contrast to many other awards ceremonies which favor the biggest releases.

Honorable Mentions: Toem (Something We Made), Norco (Geography of Robots), Overboard! (Inkle), Saturnalia (Santa Ragione), Dodgeball Academia (Pocket Trap), Webbed (Sbug Games), Fuzz Dungeon (Jeremy Couillard) Honorable Mentions: Last Call (Nina Freeman and Jake Jefferies), The Shape of Time (Xpaidia Studio), The Under Presents (Tender Claws), Song of Homunculus (Diamond Ace (Lily Zone and Zoë Sparks), Card Shark (Nerial), The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Falling Squirrel) Okthryssia and Saturnia’s Bureaucratic Adventures (Outlands).Honorable Mentions: Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games), A Musical Story (Glee-Cheese Studios), Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab), Saturnalia (Santa Ragione) Stonefly (Flight School Studio), Cris Tales (Dreams Uncorporated and Syck) Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery (Silver Lining Studio).Honorable Mentions: 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), Blackhaven (Historiated Games) Last Call (Nina Freeman and Jake Jefferies).Honorable Mentions: Loop Hero (Four Quarters), Unsighted (Studio Pixel Punk), Mini Motorways (Dinosaur Polo Club), Card Shark (Nerial), KeyWe (Stonewheat and Sons), Sunshine Heavy Industries (Daisyowl Games) Honorable Mentions: Severed Steel (Greylock Studios), A Musical Story (Glee-Cheese Studios), Death’s Door (Acid Nerve), The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Falling Squirrel), Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab), Overboard! (Inkle), The Wild at Heart (Moonlight Kids) Jett: The Far Shore (Superbrothers and Pine Scented).Honorable Mentions: Astreia’s Gift (Femy Nassirou and Hervé Blanchot), There You Are (Funky Dango), The Bleeding Tree (No Input Interactive), Dumpling Love (Parks Staff), Lysfangha (Baptiste Marsac and Daphne Pauchet-Deloffre), Jivana (Team Jivana), Hook Up (Team Hook Up), Come with Me (Xin Ye) Abriss – build to destroy (Randwerk Games).The complete list of finalists and honorable mentions can be found below. The jury also picks a number of honorable mentions. This committee then produces a list of nominees for several different categories before a jury narrows things down to six finalists within each category. There will be $50,000 in prizes up for grabs.ĭevelopers are able to submit their game to a committee of industry representatives throughout the year.

Winners are announced every year at the Game Developers Conference which will be taking place between March 21 and 25 this time around. The festival was founded in 1998 to celebrate independent developers. While two games, Inscryption and Unpacking, have clearly taken the lead in terms of nominations, there are plenty of other stand outs including Loop Hero, Sable, Cruelty Squad, and Overboard! The results are in for the Independent Games Festival this year.
