The organizers of the Independent Games Festival have announced the finalists for this year’s IGF Awards ceremony.
Six games will compete for the “Seumas McNally Grand Prize” including Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy), Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall), West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications), Into the Breach (Subset Games), Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments), and Baba Is You (Hempuli).
Baba Is You earned four total nominations, and will also be in the running for “Excellence In Design,” the “Nuovo Award,” and “Best Student Game.” Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy captured two additional nominations (“Excellence In Design” and the “Nuovo Award”), while Night in the Woods was also nominated for two other awards (“Excellence In Visual Art” and “Excellence In Narrative”).
Finally, Cuphead was a big winner at this year’s Game Awards, and the side-scroller is in line for more honors at the IGF Awards including an Honorable Mention for the “Seumas McNally Grand Prize,” as well as nominations in the “Excellence In Visual Art” and “Excellence In Audio” categories.
The IGF Awards will be held on March 21 during this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
A complete list of the nominees and honorable mentions for the 2018 Independent Games Festival Awards can be found after the break.
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications)
- Into the Breach (Subset Games)
- Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments)
- Baba Is You (Hempuli)
Honorable Mentions
Tacoma (Fullbright), Rain World (Videocult), Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps), Cosmic Top Secret (Klassefilm), Hollow Knight (Team Cherry), Cuphead (Studio MDHR), Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)Excellence In Visual Art
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
- Echo (Ultra Ultra)
- Luna (Funomena)
- The Gardens Between (The Voxel Agents)
- Chuchel (Amanita Design)
Honorable Mentions
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), Hollow Knight (Team Cherry)Excellence In Narrative
- Tacoma (Fullbright)
- Attentat 1942 (Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games)
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Butterfly Soup (Brianna Lei)
- Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
Honorable Mentions
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), West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications), Rakuen (Laura Shigihara)Excellence In Design
- Into the Breach (Subset Games)
- Shenzhen I/O (Zachtronics)
- Wilmot’s Warehouse (Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett, Eli Rainsberry)
- Baba Is You (Hempuli)
- Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
- Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
Honorable Mentions
Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments), Dead Cells (Motion Twin), Factorio (Wube Software), Space Pirate Trainer (I-Illusions), Battle Chef Brigade (Trinket Studios)Excellence In Audio
- Tormentor X Punisher (e-studio)
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
- Vignettes (Skeleton Business)
- Rain World (Videocult)
- Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
- Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Honorable Mentions
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), Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)Nuovo Award
- Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
- Tarotica Voo Doo (TPM.CO Soft Works)
- 10 Mississippi (Karina Popp)
- 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)
Honorable Mentions
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games), IO Interloper (DANG!), The Norwood Suite (Cosmo D Studios), Cheap Golf (Pixeljam), Witchball (S.L. Clark), Million Onion Hotel (Onion Games)Best Student Game
- IO Interloper (DANG!)
- Don’t Make Love (Maggese)
- 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)
Honorable Mentions
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), Tell Me What You See (Pesky Bees)
