IGF 2012 Main Competition Finalists

By: Derek Yu

On: January 11th, 2012

IGF 2012

The Main Competition finalists for the 2012 Independent Games Festival have been announced! The list is reprinted below and you can read some quotes from the jury here. TIGForums members are discussing the results in this thread.

Excellence In Visual Art
Botanicula (Amanita Design)
Dear Esther (thechineseroom)
Lume (State Of Play Games)
Mirage (Mario von Rickenbach)
Wonderputt (Damp Gnat)

Technical Excellence
Antichamber (Demruth)
Fez (Polytron)
Prom Week (Expressive Intelligence Studio, UC Santa Cruz)
Realm of the Mad God (Wild Shadow Studios & Spry Fox)
Spelunky (Mossmouth)

Excellence In Design
Atom Zombie Smasher (Blendo Games)
English Country Tune (Stephen Lavelle)
Frozen Synapse (Mode 7 Games)
Gunpoint (Tom Francis, John Roberts and Fabian van Dommelen)
Spelunky (Mossmouth)

Excellence In Audio
Botanicula (Amanita Design)
Dear Esther (thechineseroom)
Pugs Luv Beats (Lucky Frame)
To The Moon (Freebird Games)
Waking Mars (Tiger Style)

Best Mobile Game
ASYNC Corp (Powerhead Games)
Beat Sneak Bandit (Simogo)
Faraway (Steph Thirion)
Ridiculous Fishing (Vlambeer)
Waking Mars (Tiger Style)

Nuovo Award
At a Distance (Terry Cavanagh)
Dear Esther (thechineseroom)
Fingle (Game Oven Studios)
GIRP (Bennett Foddy)
Proteus (Ed Key and David Kanaga)
Johann Sebastian Joust (Die Gute Fabrik)
Storyteller (Daniel Benmergui)
Way (CoCo & Co.)

Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Dear Esther (thechineseroom)
Fez (Polytron)
Frozen Synapse (Mode 7 Games)
Johann Sebastian Joust (Die Gute Fabrik)
Spelunky (Mossmouth)

Posted in Community, Competitions, Developers, IGF / GDC

Draqonmaw

IGF is a joke. Clearly the real losers are the finalists. Cause the legitimate indies are the ones who arent in the lil rascal gang of preteen girls who give themselves trophies.

2 LEGIT TO ENTER SUP WHOREFACES
Draqonmaw

spelunky is a game maker platformer. There is no new technology there. Technical excellence has been reduced to loading a sprite and giving a handjob to your buddy MATTHEW at the IGF
http://s.hryx.net/ hryx

The new Spelunky isn’t made with Game Maker.
Slappy

I love Spelunky and I’m looking forward to the XBL version but I have to agree with Draq that Technical Excellence is an odd category for it.

Also wiki says “Fez won the “Excellence in Visual Art” award at the Independent Games Festival in 2008.” Kinda weird.

Anyway good luck Derek!
Guestykins

Actually it’s the XBLA version, but I don’t see the technical excellence there either. I know TIGSource has a hard-on for “procedural” this and procedural that, but it’s not an achievement. It hasn’t moved anything forward. Will Wright made “procedural” trendy at GDC 2005 when he demoed Spore and said it a couple dozen times in one hour (and also opened the talk by paying lip service to the demoscene)
DereK Yv

I think they call themselves indie elite is the funniest crock of crap. The real indie elite arent in their club and they arent in the relaindie elites. They should call it the IGF club not the indie elites. John Carmack is indie elite not derek yu or phil fish or any of those guys. They are hte chumps who give themselves awards cause the real indie elite is KICKING THEIR ASS
DereK Yv

PHil Fish thinks hes awesome but he never shipped a game right? LOLOLOLOL Elite LOSER is more like it!!!!
Anonymous

Least you could do, if you are trying to impersonate me, is actually type like I do.
News

inane clown posse
BoomInDaRoom

Johann Sebastian Joust? Really?! You know, there’s a great video game called basketball, where you go outside and move around with a ball. The ball has a great physics engine too.

I like innovation as well as the next guy, and the game does look neat, but I thought this competition at least narrowed the margin down to VIDEO games, not “BOP-It Versus.”

Somebody should get to work on that real life ARI device.
Anonymous

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