Honorable Mentions: Heart Forth, Alicia (Alonso Martin) The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.) Gnog (KO_OP) Oxenfree (Night School Studio) Kingdom (noio & Licorice) Inside My Radio (Seaven Studio)įantastic Contraption (Northway Games & Radial Games) Honorable Mentions: Gang Beasts (Boneloaf) Imbroglio (Michael Brough) Duskers (Misfits Attic) Chaos Reborn (Snapshot Games) TIS-100 (Zachtronics) Soft Body (Zeke Virant) Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games) Honorable Mentions: Oxenfree (Night School Studio) Orion Trail (Schell Games) Cibele (Star Maid Games) Contradiction (Tim Follin / Baggy Cat Ltd) The Writer Will Do Something (Tom Bissell and Matthew S. The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.) Honorable Mentions: Forkride Grilltime Sloth (Black Pants Game Studio ) Epistory - Typing Chronicles (Fishing Cactus) Kingdom (noio & Licorice) Alto's Adventure (Snowman) Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play) Astroneer (System Era Softworks) Panoramical (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga) Here are the 2016 IGF Awards finalists, as provided by the IGF itself:īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. To get a feel for what the IGF Awards are all about, check out our backstage interview with 2013 winner Richard Hofmeier, creator of Cart Life. The Awards will be livestreamed on March 16th on the Game Developers Choice Awards Twitch channel, hosted by Capybara Games Co-Founder and President Nathan Vella (that's the guy working on Below). The IGF received 750 entries for this year's Awards, a record number for the competition. All told, the Awards offer $50,000 for victorious indie developers across a range of categories.įor example, GNOG, Panoramical, Oxenfree, Darkest Dungeon, Mini Metro and Armello are up for Excellence in Visual Art, while Black Closet, Her Story, The Beginner's Guide, The Magic Circle, Undertale and That Dragon, Cancer are up for Excellence in Narrative. These six games are up for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, which nets the winner $30,000.

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