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


2017 Finalists & Winners

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Honorable Mentions: 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (iNK Stories), Orwell (Osmotic Studios), Imbroglio (Michael Brough), Virginia (Variable State); Duskers (Misfits Attic), Oiκοςpiel, Book I (David Kanaga)

Best Student Game

Honorable Mentions: Awkward Dimensions Redux (StevenHarmonGames), DYO (Team DYO), Code 7 – Episode 0: Allocation (Goodwolf Studio), You Must be 18 or Older to Enter (Seemingly Pointless)

Excellence in Audio

Honorable Mentions: 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (iNK Stories), Kingdom: New Lands (Noio), Dropsy (Tendershoot, A Jolly Corpse), Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor (Sundae Month), Sentris (Timbre Interactive), TumbleSeed (TumbleSeed Team)

Excellence in Design

Honorable Mentions: She Remembered Caterpillars (jumpsuit entertainment), Elsinore (Golden Glitch Studios), INSIDE (Playdead), Antihero (Tim Conkling), Replica (Somi), Space Pirate Trainer (I-Illusions)

Excellence in Narrative

Honorable Mentions: A Normal Lost Phone (Accidental Queens), The Lion’s Song (Mi’pu’mi Games), Far from Noise (George Batchelor), INSIDE (Playdead), Stardew Valley (ConcernedApe), Burly Men at Sea (Brain&Brain), Sorcery! 4 (inkle / Steve Jackson)

Excellence in Visual Art

Honorable Mentions: Inks (State of Play), Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall), Mu Cartographer (Titouan Millet), Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play), Sundered (Thunder Lotus Games), Un Pas Fragile (PAF team)

Nuovo Award

Honorable Mentions: Memoir En Code: Reissue (Alex Camilleri), Far from Noise (George Batchelor), Ladykiller in a Bind (Love Conquers All Games), Witchball (S.L. Clark), Project Perfect Citizen (Bad Cop Studios), Wheels of Aurelia (Santa Ragione), Quadrilateral Cowboy (Blendo Games)

Audience Award

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