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PAVILION: March 19-21, 2025
CEREMONY: March 19, 2025

IGF News

Apply To Be a Judge for the 2025 IGF Awards

Calling all indie developers and industry experts: The spotlight is about to shine on the vibrant world of independent games once again. The 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards are gearing up, and we're seeking passionate judges to help recognize and celebrate the year's best indie games.

'Consume Me' Wins Grand Prize, Nuovo Award at the 2025 IGF Awards

'Consume Me' is a darkly humorous personal game about creator Jenny Jiao Hsia's relationship with food, drawing from her past experiences with dieting and disordered eating.

Welcome the IGF Juries for the Student, Nuovo, and Visual Art Awards at GDC 2025

The 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards is coming up in less than two months, and we have the second group of developers who will be judging this year's groundbreaking selections.

Here Are the IGF Juries for Audio, Design, and Narrative Awards at GDC 2025

Anticipation is building for the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards, and we've got the first round of jurors tasked with evaluating this year's outstanding selection of games.

IGF 2025 Audience Award Is Now Open

Game developers and enthusiasts: It's time for make your voices heard. Voting is now open for the 2025 Independent Games Festival Audience Award! Voting is open through Friday, January 31 at 11:59pm PT.

'Consume Me' Leads with 5 Nominations at 2025 IGF Awards

'Consume Me,' which started as a collection of prototypes, draws from her past experiences with dieting and disordered eating. It follows last year's Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner, Venba, which was a narrative cooking game about food and family.

The 2025 Independent Games Festival Submissions Are Now Open

Celebrating indie games. Celebrating indie creators. Celebrating you. Submissions are now open for the 2025 Independent Games Festival!

It's Time for the First-Ever 'IGF Celebration Days' Event on Steam!

From July 11 through July 20, 2024, 80+ IGF-featured games and studios will be brought together in one massive event, organized by 'Once Upon a Jester' studio Crunching Koalas.

'Venba' Wins Grand Prize at the 2024 Independent Games Festival Awards

Venba is a narrative cooking game in which players experience life as an Indian mom who has immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.

Trinidad (Hermida) Black to Host the 2024 IGF Awards

Welcome to the stage: our host for the 2024 Independent Games Festival Awards! Black in Gaming Foundation Executive Director Trinidad Hermida is joining GDC on the Main Stage for the industry's premier independent games awards show.

Visai Games' 'Venba' Leads Finalists for the 2024 IGF Awards

Organizers of the 2024 Game Developers Converence are happy to unveil this year's finalists and honorable mentions for the 26th annual IGF Awards, part of the longest-running festival, summit, and showcase celebrating independent games and their creators.

These Are the IGF Juries for the Design, Narrative, and Nuovo Awards at GDC 2024

We're a couple short months away from the 2024 IGF Awards, and here's the second group of developers who will be judging our incredible selection of games for GDC 2024.

Here Are the IGF Juries for the Audio, Visual Art, and Student Game Awards at GDC 2024

The 2024 IGF Awards are coming soon, and here is the first round of jurors who will be judging our incredible selection of games for GDC 2024.

IGF Accepts Over 500 Entries for GDC 2024

Developers from all over the world sent in their projects to the largest and longest-running showcase for independent game developers—taking place at the 2024 Game Developers Conference, which will be held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco from March 18-22, 2024.

Be a Judge for the 2024 IGF Awards: Here's How

The Independent Games Festival is looking for journalists, academics, and game developers who are not submitting a game this year to be part of the judging body for the 2024 IGF Awards.

It's Time to Submit Your Game for the 2024 Independent Games Festival Awards

It's time to put your game in the spotlight. Submissions are now open for the 2024 Independent Games Festiva! Here's how to enter your game.

Where Are They Now: IGF Grand Prize Winners That Shaped the Industry (1999-2006)

Over the past 25 years, the IGF Awards has spotlighted some of the industry's most groundbreaking indie video games, and every one of them has a place in history. Let's look at some of our Seumas McNally Grand Prize winners over the years, and where their studios are now.

'Betrayal at Club Low' Wins Grand Prize and Nuovo Award at Independent Games Festival

In addition to the Grand Prize, Betrayal At Club also won the Nuovo Award—making Betrayal at Club Low the second game in IGF Awards history to win both the Grand Prize and the Nuovo Award in the same year (following Cart Life in 2013).

'TUNIC' and 'Betrayal at Club Low' Are Front Runners in IGF 2023 Nominations

Here are this year's finalists for the 25th annual IGF Awards, part of the longest-running festival, summit, and showcase celebrating independent games and their creators. The Independent Games Festival is part of GDC 2023, which will be held in San Francisco March 20-24, 2023.

Marina Díez to Host 2023 IGF Awards at GDC

Marina is a Spanish award-winning game designer based in Berlin and London. She's the CEO at Three of Cups Games, a games studio based in London—as well as an emotional game designer at BTF Games for “The Berlin Apartment” and the lead game designer of Dordogne at Un Je Ne Sais Quoi Studio.

These Are the IGF Juries for the Audio, Visual and Student Game Awards at GDC 2023