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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