Nelle scorse ore sono state rivelate le nomination per l’Independent Games Festival 2018, evento in programma dal 21 al 23 marzo a San Francisco nel corso della GDC.
Lo show in questione sarà condotto da Trent Kusters, co-fondatore di League of Geeks, e riguarderà il panorama dei titoli indipendenti usciti nel 2017.
Ecco tutte le nomination:
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Into the Breach (Subset Games)
- Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments)
- Baba is You (Hempuli)
- West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications)
Menzione speciale per Tacoma (Fullbright); Rain World (VIDEOCULT); Dream Daddy A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps); Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm); Hollow Knight (Team Cherry); Cuphead (StudioMDHR) e Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead).
Excellence in Visual Art
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Echo (ULTRA ULTRA)
- Luna (Funomena)
- The Gardens Between (The Voxel Agents)
- Chuchel (Amanita Design)
- Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
Menzione speciale per Jettomero Hero of the Universe (Ghost Time Games); Dead Cells (Motion Twin); AER Memories of Old (Forgotten Key); Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games); Rain World (VIDEOCULT); Shape of the World (Hollow Tree Games) e Hollow Knight (Team Cherry).
Nuovo Award
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
- A Mortician’s Tale (Laundry Bear Games)
- Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm)
- Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)
- Baba Is You (Hempuli)
- Kids (Playables)
- Tarotica Voo Doo (TPM.CO SOFT WORKS)
- 10 Mississippi (Karina)
Menzione speciale per Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games); IO Interloper (DANG!); The Norwood Suite (Cosmo DStudios); Cheap Golf (Pixeljam); Witchball (S.L.Clark); Million Onion Hotel (Onion Games)
Best Student Game
- IO Interloper (DANG!)
- Penny Blue Finds a Clue (DigiPen Team Cactus Curse)
- We Were Here (Total Mayhem Games)
- Baba Is You (Hempuli)
- Guardian of the Gears (DigiPen Team Studio 76)
- Don’t Make Love (Maggese)
Menzione d’onore per Crewsaders (Titan Squad); A.L.F.R.E.D. (Hugo Lefevre, Joseph Reichenbach, Romain Jaohar-Gaillard, Garance Royere Lebigre, Nicolas Tham, Marion Speiser, Delphine Migeot de Baran, Song Huang); MOLOCH (Seemingly Pointless); Kyklo’s Code (Cube Factory); Membrane (Perfect Hat / Seth S. Scott); That Blooming Feeling (The Tots Team) e Tell Me What You See (Pesky Bees).
Excellence in Audio
- Tormentor X Punisher (eStudio)
- Vignettes (Skeleton Business)
- Rain World (VIDEOCULT)
- Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
- Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
- Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
Menzione speciale per Tumbleseed (Benedict Fritz, Greg Wohlwend, Joel Corelitz, David Laskey and Jenna Blazevich); Hollow Knight (Team Cherry); Tacoma (Fullbright); Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games); Million Onion Hotel (Onion Games) e Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall).
Excellence in Design
- Into the Breach (Subset Games)
- Shenzhen I/O (Zachtronics)
- Baba Is You (Hempuli)
- Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
- Wilmot’s Warehouse (Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett, Eli Rainsberry)
Menzione speciale per Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments); Dead Cells (Motion Twin); Factorio (Wube Software); Space Pirate Trainer (I-Illusions) e Battle Chef Brigade (Trinket Studios).
Excellence in Narrative
- Tacoma (Fullbright)
- Attentat 1942 (Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Butterfly Soup (Brianna Lei)
- Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games)
Menzione speciale per A Mortician’s Tale (Laundry Bear Games); Lost Memories Dot Net (Star Maid Games); Dream Daddy A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps); Bury me my Love (The Pixel Hunt, Figs and ARTE France); Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm) e West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications); Rakuen (Laura Shigihara).
