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Independent Games Festival
The IGF Takes Place During GDC
PAVILION: March 19-21, 2025
CEREMONY: March 19, 2025


2016 Finalists & Winners

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Honorable mentions: Affordable Space Adventures (KnapNok Games and Nifflas' Games), Cibele (Star Maid Games), OXENFREE (Night School Studio), PANORAMICAL (Fernando Ramallo and David Kanaga), Soft Body (Zeke Virant), That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games), The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.), Twelve Minutes (Luis Antonio)

Best Student Game

Honorable mentions: Anarcute (Anarteam), BADBLOOD (NYU Game Center), FAR (Zurich University of the Arts), Gathering Sky (A Stranger Gravity), Not Everything is Flammable (Carnegie Mellon University - Entertainment Technology Center), Sumer (New York University)

Excellence in Audio

Honorable mentions: GNOG (KO_OP), Heart Forth, Alicia (Alonso Martin), Inside My Radio (Seaven Studio), Kingdom (noio and Licorice), OXENFREE (Night School Studio), The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.)

Excellence in Design

Honorable mentions: Chaos Reborn (Snapshot Games), Duskers (Misfits Attic), Gang Beasts (Boneloaf), Imbroglio (Michael Brough), Soft Body (Zeke Virant), TIS-100 (Zachtronics)

Excellence in Narrative

Honorable mentions: Cibele (Star Maid Games), Contradiction (Tim Follin / Baggy Cat Ltd), Orion Trail (Schell Games), OXENFREE (Night School Studio), The Writer Will Do Something (Tom Bissell and Matthew S. Burns)

Excellence in Visual Art

Honorable mentions: Alto's Adventure (Snowman), Astroneer (System Era Softworks), Epistory - Typing Chronicles (Fishing Cactus), Forkride Grilltime Sloth (Black Pants Game Studio / Sebastian Stamm), Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play), Kingdom (noio and Licorice)

Nuovo Award

Honorable mentions: Affordable Space Adventures (KnapNok Games and Nifflas' Games), Enough (Cabbibo), Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play), Sage Solitaire (Zach Gage), Sentree (Glitchnap), TIS-100 (Zachtronics), Vignettes (Pol Clarissou and Armel Gibson)

Audience Award

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