Independent Games Festival Winners
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)
Nuovo Award:
Tetrageddon (Nathalie Lawhead)
Excellence in Visual Art:
Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith of Vectorpark)
Excellence in Audio:
Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure (SuperChop Games)
Excellence in Design:
Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)
Excellence in Narrative:
Best Student Game:
Close your (GoodbyeWorld Games - University of Southern California)
Audience Award:
This War Of Mine (11 bit studios)
Independent Games Festival Finalists
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Invisible, Inc. (Klei Entertainment)
Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith of Vectorpark)
Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)
This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
Honorable mentions: Donut County (Ben Esposito); Endless Legend (Amplitude Studios);Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis & Nikita Mikros); Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games); The Sailor's Dream (Simogo); and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
Excellence in Visual Arts:
else Heart.Break() (Niklas Åkerblad, Erik Svedäng)
Lumino City (State of Play Games)
Memory of a Broken Dimension (XRA)
Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith of Vectorpark)
Oquonie (xxiivv and kokorobot)
Honorable mentions: Crawl (Powerhoof); Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play); Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine); Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club); The Sailor's Dream (Simogo); andThe Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
Excellence in Design:
Invisible, Inc. (Klei Entertainment)
Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis and Nikita Mikros)
Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)
Honorable mentions: Desert Golfing (Captain Games); Dungeon of the Endless (Amplitude Studios); Endless Legend (Amplitude Studios); Helix (Michael Brough); Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Create Games); and Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Excellence in Audio:
Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure (SuperChop Games)
Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
Honorable mentions: Deep Under the Sky (Rich Edwards and Colin Northway); FOTONICA(Santa Ragione); Goat Simulator (Coffee Stain Studios); Hotline Miami 2 (Dennaton);Nuclear Throne (Vlambeer); and Smash Hit (Mediocre)
Excellence in Narrative:
Coming Out Simulator 2014 (Nicky Case)
Ice-Bound: A Novel of Reconfiguration (Down to the Wire)
This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
Three Fourths Home ([bracket]games)
Honorable mentions: Curtain (Llaura, dreamfeeel); Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) (Upper One Games / E-Line Media); Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds); The Fall (Over The Moon);The Sailor's Dream (Simogo); and The Talos Principle (Croteam)
Nuovo Award:
BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS (Andi McClure and Michael Brough)
Desert Golfing (Captain Games)
Elegy for a Dead World (Dejobaan Games & Popcannibal)
how do you Do It? (Nina Freeman, Emmett Butler, Jonathan Kittaka, and Deckman Coss)
Plug & Play (Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei/Etter Studio)
Rooftop Cop (Stephen Lawrence Clark)
Tetrageddon Games (Nathalie Lawhead)
Honorable mentions: Curtain (Llaura, dreamfeeel); Ice-Bound: A Novel of Reconfiguration(Down to the Wire); International Jetpack Conference (Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish);Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds); Phonopath (Kevin Regamey); and Push Me Pull You (House House)
Student Showcase Finalists:
a•part•ment (Team a•part•ment)
Close Your (GoodbyeWorld Games)
Even the Stars (Pol Clarissou/Nicholas Gavan)
Rooftop Cop (Stephen Lawrence Clark)
Stellar Smooch (Alec Thomson/Jenny Jiao Hsia)
Honorable mentions: A Story About My Uncle (Södertörn University); Ahoooj (FAMU, University of West Bohemia, CVUT FEL, and UMPRUM); Circles (University of the Arts Utrecht); Drew and the Floating Labyrinth (University of Windsor); Lisa (Elzendaal College Boxmeer); and Mecha Trigger (Michigan State University)
