IGF Winners

Posted by Tim Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:13:00 GMT

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(Source: Kotaku, Joystiq)

Winners in bold.

Student Showcase finalists are:
Base invaders, Invalid Tangram, Opera Slinger, Gelatin Joe, And Yet it Moves, Toblo, Euclidean Crisis, The Ball of Bastards, The Blob

Excellence in Audio finalists:
Aquaria, Bone: The Great Cow Race, Everyday Shooter, Fizzball, Racing Pitch

Finalists for Excellence in Visual Arts:
Aquaria, Golf?, Samorost 2, Castle Crashers, Roboblitz

The finalists for Design Innovation Awards:
Aquaria, Everyday Shooter, Armadillo Run, Toblo

Finalists for Technical Excellence:
Arcane Legions: A Rising Shadow, Armada Online, Bang! Howdy, Blast Miner, Band of Bugs

Best Web Browser Game finalists:
Bubble Islands, Gamma Bros., Samorost 2

Indie GameTap award. The three winners of this prize will share $50,000 and have their game published on the service.

First runner up: Blast Miner
Winner: Everyday Shooter

The Audience Award winner is Castle Crashers.

The Darwinia team introduces the finalists for this year’s SMAs:
Aquaria
Armadillo Run
Bang! Howdy
Roboblitz
Everyday Shooter

And the winner this year is: Aquaria.

Quote Gamespot:

The 2007 Game of the Year prize went to Aquaria, the previously unhonored 2D fantasy game from indie shop Bit Blot. After stumbling verbally, one of its designers admitted, “This is a terrible speech.” But the massive applause proved the audience didn’t really care.

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  1. Shabadage said 12 minutes later:

    Congrats to all the winners, and a well biased “Hell Yeah” for Aquaria’s win in the SMA’s!

  2. BMcC said about 1 hour later:

    Oh MAN, I was sitting here waiting to post once I heard the news. I never woulda thought to check Kotaku…

    CON-FREAKIN’-GRATS Derek & Alec! I’m so happy for you guys. :D

    Congrats to everyone else too, of course. :)

  3. Dan MacDonald said about 1 hour later:

    Aquaria comes down with the grand prize… that was very cool. (and congrats on some nice prize $$). They did all the other awards first and Aquaria kept coming up and Everyday shooter kept winning! (big congrats to Jonathan there too). I thought for sure he was going to grab the grand prize as well. Roomer in the crowd has it that the win was decided by as little as 1 vote. (not to take away anything from Derek, Alec, and Jenna’s achievement)

  4. Eos said about 1 hour later:

    I want a full run-down on their speeches. Stat!

  5. Jimbob said about 1 hour later:

    Awesome news for Derek. Congrats!

    Saying that, this is also perked my interest for Everyday Shooter, it looked an interesting idea from the vid, but this obviously means it’s a lot more special than that…

  6. Jimbob said about 1 hour later:

    “Awesome news for…” (and Alec and Jenna of course)

  7. Albert Lai said about 2 hours later:

    Everyday Shooter looked pretty good, and the fact ti won several awards proves it.

    Congrats to Derek, Alec, and Jenna! Aquaria is set to be the Next Big Thing, or, at least, Some Big Thing.

  8. RyanA said about 2 hours later:

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!

    Dudes, Congrats. So happy :’)

  9. TIGDev367 said about 3 hours later:

    Congrats, Bit Blotters!

  10. !CE-9 said about 4 hours later:

    Congrats on Aquaria, guys! Your work isn’t only brilliant, but very inspiring too - so is your victory.

    Big up!

  11. Xander said about 5 hours later:

    Hell Yeah!!! Congrats all of y’all!

    …now if only we could play it grin

  12. Julian said about 5 hours later:

    Congratulations to Derek and Alec!

  13. Fost said about 6 hours later:

    Woohoo, top news guys! By the rules of the IGF, doesn’t Derek have to buy everyone he meets a beer?

    :)

  14. Koach said about 6 hours later:

    Well that somehow was pretty conceivable… but still not self-evident. So big conrats to you three bit blotters!

  15. dumb said about 7 hours later:

    what does SMA stand for?

  16. DanDanger said about 8 hours later:

    What on earth does SMA stand for anyway? Glad you won it though ^_^

  17. BMcC said about 10 hours later:

    Seumas McNally Award.

    I.e., The Grand Prize.

  18. Jimbob said about 10 hours later:

    SMA = Seamus McNally Award i.e. the BIG one.

  19. Koach said about 10 hours later:

    Serious Monkeyness Award?

  20. Koach said about 10 hours later:

    Aw damn, too late…

  21. gustav said about 10 hours later:

    awesome! by the looks of it, you guys sure as hell deserve it! congrats derek and alec :o

  22. Aubrey said about 11 hours later:

    Well done the BitBlot guys! Can’t wait to play it…

    Same goes for Everyday Shooter. That looks really cool, too.

  23. Koach said about 11 hours later:

    Hehe real international local heroes…

  24. Ricardo Chirino said about 12 hours later:

    Congratulations to all this year’s finalists! And special congrats to Derek and everyone at BitBlot (whomever they are!), as it’s a great honor to win such an award!

    Keep it up.

  25. konjak said about 14 hours later:

    Woo! Go!

  26. Jay said about 14 hours later:

    Congratulations, Derek and crew!

    Bravo! Well done! =)

  27. Jimbob said about 15 hours later:

    Another picture of our leader: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bannedanna/414426569/

  28. Jimbob said about 16 hours later:

    Full video of the awards! http://www.gamespot.com/events/gdc07/videos.html?sort=recent&movietype=otherfeatures&page=1

  29. caffeinekid said about 16 hours later:

    Congratulation you success!

  30. DrDerekDoctors said about 16 hours later:

    Well done indeedy! Nice speeches, Alec came across as almost blase about the amount of awards he’s received. ;)

  31. DrDerekDoctors said about 16 hours later:

    Btw, it’s about 38 minutes into the video!

  32. Sparky said about 17 hours later:

    Congratulations, Team Aquaria!

  33. Shih Tzu said about 20 hours later:

    素晴らしい！おめでとう！万歳！

  34. Citrus said about 21 hours later:

    I just watched the awards video. I love that Everyday Shooter guy :D

    Congratulations to Bit-Blot!

  35. Pita said 1 day later:

    :D:D!

    Seriously awesome. Many congrats to BitBlot!

  36. TS John said 6 days later:

    I know this is late but congrats for sure, hombres. What I’ve seen has led me to believe that you deffo deserve it.

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