Independent Games Festival 2011 Finalists Announced
The Independent Games Festival, held during the Game Developer’s Conference every year, usually brings a lot of great independent games to the general gaming public’s attention, and this year is no exception to that rule.
This year’s finalists and honorable mentions have been announced, and I am very excited to see what games win the several awards. I’ve played two of the five finalists, and I don’t think I could choose between one of them.
Miegakure, which I played and talked to Marc Ten Bosch about at PAX East last year, is also a finalist for technical excellence. If the uniqueness of the game doesn’t help it stand out on its own, the award will help in that much more.
There are several other games that I hadn’t even heard of (guess I’m not as indie as I thought I was) nominated for other awards which you can check out on the IGF page, and I’ m looking forward to playing them, or not playing them and reading about them if they’re not out of development yet.
The Seumas McNally Grand Prize Nominations are:
Honorable mentions: Neptune’s Pride (Iron Helmet Games); Super Crate Box(Vlambeer); Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale (Carpe Fulgur); Bit.Trip Runner (Gaijin Games); Retro City Rampage (Vblank Entertainment)
The Winners will be announced on March 2nd at the IGF awards ceremony of GDC.
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