Revelan los nominados a los Independent Games Festival Awards 2018

El Independent Games Festival, ente parte de la Game Developers Conference, ha revelado hoy a los finalistas para su gran ceremonia anual de premios a realizarse el próximo miércoles 21 de marzo en California.

300 jueces eligieron de entre 600 juegos para elegir a los nominados, cuyos premios no son solo estatuillas y reconocimiento, también involucra dinero en efectivo para apoyar a los desarrolladores independientes.

Entre los nominados encontramos a Cuphead, Night in the Woods, el curioso Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Tacoma, Celeste y Baba is You, el cual es que más ha sorprendido por su gran cantidad de nominaciones al solo ser un juego hecho por estudiantes. Los nominados a continuación.

Gran Premio Seumas McNally

- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)

- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)

- West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications)

- Into the Breach (Subset Games)

- Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments)

- Baba is You (Hempuli)

Menciones Honrosas: Tacoma (Fullbright); Rain World (VIDEOCULT); Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps); Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm); Hollow Knight (Team Cherry); Cuphead (StudioMDHR); Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)

Excelencia en Artes Visuales

- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)

- Cuphead (StudioMDHR)

- Echo (ULTRA ULTRA)

- Luna (Funomena)

- The Gardens Between (The Voxel Agents)

- Chuchel (Amanita Design)

Menciones Honrosas: Jettomero: Hero of the Universe (Ghost Time Games); Dead Cells (Motion Twin); AER – Memories of Old (Forgotten Key); Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games); Rain World (VIDEOCULT); Shape of the World (Hollow Tree Games); Hollow Knight (Team Cherry)

Excelencia en Audio

- Tormentor X Punisher (e-studio)

- Cuphead (StudioMDHR)

- Vignettes (Skeleton Business)

- Rain World (VIDEOCULT)

- Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)

- Celeste (Matt Makes Games)

Menciones Honrosas: Tumbleseed (Benedict Fritz, Greg Wohlwend, Joel Corelitz, David Laskey and Jenna Blazevich); Hollow Knight (Team Cherry); Tacoma (Fullbright); Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games); Million Onion Hotel (Onion Games); Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)

Excelencia en Diseño

- Into the Breach (Subset Games)

- Shenzhen I/O (Zachtronics)

- Wilmot’s Warehouse (Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett, Eli Rainsberry)

- Baba Is You (Hempuli)

- Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)

- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)

Menciones Honrosas: Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments); Dead Cells (Motion Twin); Factorio (Wube Software); Space Pirate Trainer (I-Illusions); Battle Chef Brigade (Trinket Studios)

Excelencia en Narrativa

- Tacoma (Fullbright)

- Attentat 1942 (Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)

- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games)

- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)

- Butterfly Soup (Brianna Lei)

- Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)

Menciones Honrosas: A Mortician’s Tale (Laundry Bear Games); Lost Memories Dot Net (Star Maid Games); Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps); Bury me, my Love (The Pixel Hunt, Figs and ARTE France); Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm); West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications); Rakuen (Laura Shigihara)

Premio Nuovo

- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)

- Tarotica Voo Doo (TPM.CO SOFT WORKS)

- 10 Mississippi (Karina Popp)

- A Mortician’s Tale (Laundry Bear Games)

- Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm)

- Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)

- Baba Is You (Hempuli)

- Kids (Playables)

Menciones Honrosas: Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games); IO Interloper (DANG!); The Norwood Suite (Cosmo D Studios); Cheap Golf (Pixeljam); Witchball (S.L.Clark); Million Onion Hotel (Onion Games)

Mejor Juego de Estudiantes

- IO Interloper (DANG!)

- Don’t Make Love (Maggese)

- Penny Blue Finds a Clue (DigiPen Team Cactus Curse)

- We Were Here (Total Mayhem Games)

- Baba Is You (Hempuli)

- Guardian of the Gears (DigiPen Team Studio 76)

Menciones Honrosas: Crewsaders (Titan Squad); A.L.F.R.E.D. (Hugo Lefevre, Joseph Reichenbach, Romain Jaohar-Gaillard, Garance Royere Lebigre, Nicolas Tham, Marion Speiser, Delphine Migeot de Baran, Song Huang); MOLOCH (Seemingly Pointless); Kyklo’s Code (Cube Factory); Membrane (Perfect Hat / Seth S. Scott); That Blooming Feeling (The Tots Team); Tell Me What You See (Pesky Bees)

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