Indie developers from around the world got dressed up last night to fit in with the pomp and circumstance of the the Independent Games Festival’s 2018 IGF Awards ceremony. But it was Infinite Fall’s Night in the Woods that took home the top prize, the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, as well as the IGF Award for “Excellence In Narrative.”
Night in the Woods had plenty of company on the big stage, as Amanita Design’s Chuchel (“Excellence In Visual Art”), Hempuli’s Baba Is You (“Excellence In Design” and “Best Student Game”), Nifflas Game’s Uurnog Uurnlimited (“Excellence In Audio”), and Bennett Foddy’s Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy (the “Nuovo Award”) all took home at least one IGF Award of their own.
A replay of the 2018 IGF Awards ceremony can be viewed at the Twitch channel for the Game Developers Conference.
Congratulations to all the winners, and don’t forget, GDC attendees will be able to try out all the winner and nominees at the IGF Pavilion on the expo floor through Friday, March 23. A complete list is available after the break.
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
- WINNER: Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications)
- Into the Breach (Subset Games)
- Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments)
- Baba Is You (Hempuli)
Excellence In Visual Art
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
- Echo (Ultra Ultra)
- Luna (Funomena)
- The Gardens Between (The Voxel Agents)
- WINNER: Chuchel (Amanita Design)
Excellence In Narrative
- Tacoma (Fullbright)
- Attentat 1942 (Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games)
- WINNER: Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Butterfly Soup (Brianna Lei)
- Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
Excellence In Design
- Into the Breach (Subset Games)
- Shenzhen I/O (Zachtronics)
- Wilmot’s Warehouse (Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett, Eli Rainsberry)
- WINNER: Baba Is You (Hempuli)
- Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
- Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
Excellence In Audio
- Tormentor X Punisher (e-studio)
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
- Vignettes (Skeleton Business)
- Rain World (Videocult)
- WINNER: Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
- Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Nuovo Award
- WINNER: 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)
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)
- WINNER: Baba Is You (Hempuli)
- Guardian of the Gears (DigiPen Team Studio 76)
Audience Award
- WINNER: Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Alt.Ctrl.GDC Award
- WINNER: Puppet Pandemonium (Terence Tolman)
ID@Xbox Gaming For Everyone Award
- WINNER: SpecialEffect
