The 27th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) winners were announced live last night at the 39th edition of the Game Developers Conference (GDC).
Independent game Consume Me, a darkly humorous personal game about creator Jenny Jiao Hsia’s relationship with food, won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and The Nuovo Award.
The 27th annual IGF Awards are the following:
Excellence in Visual Art ($2,000)
Hauntii (Moonloop Games / Firestoke)
Excellence in Audio ($2,000)
Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena / Panic)
Excellence in Design ($2,000)
Tactical Breach Wizards (Suspicious Developments)
Excellence in Narrative ($2,000)
Caves of Qud (Freehold Games / Kitfox Games)
Nuovo Award ($2,000)
Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder)
Best Student Game ($2,000)
Slot Waste (Vinny Roca)
Audience Award ($2,000)
The WereCleaner (The WereCleaner Team / USC Games)
alt.ctrl.GDC Award ($2,000)
ChromaCorp (Art Center)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($10,000)
Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder)
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