Финал IGF Award 2012

В Сети появился список игр-финалистов, которые претендуют на получение различных наград в рамках ежегодной церемонии Independent Games Festival Awards. По количеству номинаций лидируют такие игры, как Little Inferno, Cart Life, Hotline Miami, FTL и Dys4ia.

Seumas McNally Grand Prize:

• Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
• FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
• Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
• Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
• Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
• Honorable mentions: Gone Home (The Fullbright Company); Thirty Flights of Loving(Blendo Games); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe); Super Hexagon (Terry Cavanagh); Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth)

Nuovo Award (abstract and unconventional game development):

• Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
• Spaceteam (Henry Smith)
• Dys4ia (Auntie Pixelante)
• Bientot l'ete (Tale of Tales)
• 7 Grand Steps (Mousechief)
• MirrorMoon (SantaRagione + BloodyMonkey)
• VESPER.5 (Michael Brough)
• Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
• Honorable mentions: Renga (wallFour); Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth); Frog Fractions (Twinbeard); Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)

Excellence In Visual Art:

• Incredipede (Northway Games and Thomas Shahan)
• Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
• Guacalamelee! (Drinkbox Studios)
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base)
• Year Walk (Simogo)
• Honorable mentions: Fly'n (Ankama Play); Eleven (Christoffer Hedborg, Datahowler); The Bridge (Ty Taylor and Mario Castaneda); Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace); Hundreds (Semi Secret feat. aeiowu)

Excellence In Narrative:

• Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games)
• Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
• Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
• Dys4ia (Auntie Pixelante)
• Gone Home (The Fullbright Company)
• Honorable mentions: Goblet Grotto (thecatamites, j chastain, NEW VADERS); Analogue: A Hate Story (Christine Love); Papo & Yo (Minority Media); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe); 7 Grand Steps (Mousechief)

Technical Excellence:

• StarForge (CodeHatch)
• Perspective (DigiPen Widdershins)
• Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
• Intrusion 2 (Aleksey Abramenko)
• LiquidSketch (Tobias Neukom)
• Honorable mentions: Mobiloid (Monty Melby); Skulls Of The Shogun (17-BIT); Foldit (University of Washington); 140 (Jeppe Carlsen); Gateways (Smudged Cat Games)

Excellence In Design:

• Samurai Gunn (Beau Blyth)
• FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
• Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth)
• Super Hexagon (Terry Cavanagh)
• Super Space ______ (David Scamehorn & Alexander Baard/DigiPen)
• Honorable mentions: Spaceteam (Henry Smith); Helix (Michael Brough); Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation); Rymdkapsel (Martin Jonasson, Grapefrukt Games); Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)

Excellence In Audio:

• Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
• Bad Hotel (Lucky Frame)
• 140 (Jeppe Carlsen)
• Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
• Pixeljunk 4AM (Q-Games)
• Honorable mentions: Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace); Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation); Gone Home (The Fullbright Company); Fract OSC (Phosfiend Systems); Dust: An Elysian Tale (Humble Hearts)

15-й по счету Independent Games Festival пройдет 25-29 марта этого года.

Финал, IGF Award, 2012