2016 Finalists & Winners
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- Her Story (Sam Barlow)
- Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Games)
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
- Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- SUPERHOT (Superhot)
- UNDERTALE (Toby Fox)
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
- Beglitched (Jennifer Jiao Hsia and Alec Thomson)
- Ape Out (Gabe Cuzzillo)
- Chambara (team ok)
- Circa Infinity (Kenny Sun)
- orchids to dusk (Pol Clarissou, Marskye, KO_OP)
- Pitfall Planet (Bonfire Games)
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
- Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Games)
- Lumini (Speelbaars)
- PANORAMICAL (Fernando Ramallo and David Kanaga)
- That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games)
- UNDERTALE (Toby Fox)
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
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
- Her Story (Sam Barlow)
- Infinifactory (Zachtronics)
- Kingdom (Thomas van den Berg and Marco Bancale)
- Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- SUPERHOT (Superhot)
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
- Her Story (Sam Barlow)
- Black Closet (Hanako Games)
- That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games)
- The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited, Ltd.)
- The Magic Circle (Question)
- UNDERTALE (Toby Fox)
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
- OXENFREE (Night School Studio)
- Armello (League of Geeks)
- Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Games)
- GNOG (KO_OP)
- Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- PANORAMICAL (Fernando Ramallo and David Kanaga)
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
- Cibele (Star Maid Games)
- Fantastic Contraption (Northway Games and Radial Games)
- Her Story (Sam Barlow)
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
- orchids to dusk (Pol Clarissou, Marskye, KO_OP)
- PANORAMICAL (Fernando Ramallo and David Kanaga)
- Progress (Tim Garbos, Martin Kvale and Joel Nystrom)
- The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited, Ltd.)
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
- UNDERTALE (Toby Fox)