IGF / GDCA Winners!

Posted by Derek Yu Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:07:00 GMT

IGF

We’ll probably write about it more in depth later, but I wanted to mention that the indie spirit really dominated the awards this year. Not only did monocle-fever hit the stage (including a mention from Gabe Newell in his haiku homage to Phil Fish), but this was the first year that independent developers were eligible for GDCA awards. And Portal, of course, had its start as an independent title, and ended up taking home Game of the Year. Great stuff, guys.

Student Showcase Winner: Synaesthete

Technical Excellence: World of Goo

Innovation Award: World of Goo

Excellence in Visual Art: Fez

Excellence in Audio: Audiosurf

Best Web Game: Iron Dukes

Seumas McNally Grand Prize: Crayon Physics Deluxe

Audience Award: Audiosurf

Gleemies: Quadradius (Bronze), Skyrates (Silver), Desktop Tower Defense (Gold)

GDCA Best Downloadable Game: flOw

(Image Source: Joystiq)

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  1. goldbuick said 36 minutes later:

    first post

  2. haowan said 37 minutes later:

    Congrats to all the winners!

  3. Al King said about 1 hour later:

    /me applauds

    Congrats to everyone!

  4. jeb said about 1 hour later:

    Wow, that IS surprising! Congrats!

    But what happened to the audience award?

  5. Mr.Trianglehead said about 1 hour later:

    Go Fish!!! Bringin’ home the art award.

  6. Ogmobot said about 1 hour later:

    Surprised me a bit!

    I’d also like to commend my congratulations to the winners :)

  7. Al King said about 1 hour later:

    jeb, the audience award also went to Audiosurf.

  8. Eclipse said about 2 hours later:

    no way, World of Goo is the best

  9. Jimbob said about 3 hours later:

    ‘Grats!

    Some great games to win, and some great games to not :S

  10. Bezzy said about 4 hours later:

    Hey congrats winners! Commiserations everyone else :(

  11. Xander said about 5 hours later:

    Any chance of a video like last year? More marriage proposals please!

    Sorry for those that didn’t win, and no Goo or Noitu Love sadly but there’s always another day and another IGF! Congratulations to everyone anyways, especially to the Fez crew, it seems to be going down a treat.

    Still don’t get what the fuss about Flow is though. I need that explaining to me at some point.

  12. PHeMoX said about 5 hours later:

    Congratulations everyone!

  13. Tantan said about 5 hours later:

    Congrats to Petri and everyone else! Great job everyone!

  14. I should settle on a name said about 6 hours later:

    I’d have accepted Goo, Audiosurf or the physics game to win. And everything turned out right. At least them games attempted to bring something new to our dry table.

  15. Nikica said about 7 hours later:

    Congratulations to Petri and Kokoromi too.

  16. Dom Camus said about 7 hours later:

    A few surprises there - I would’ve put money on Fez for design innovation. That’s not a criticism of World of Goo, it’s just that for me Fez is at a once-in-a-decade level of design brilliance.

    Congrats to all the award winners. I shall be saving up $$$ to get my own shiny copies. And a monocle.

  17. Akhel said about 7 hours later:

    Congratulations, guys. :)

  18. Lim-Dul said about 8 hours later:

    I’m very happy with the awards - they have been distributed evenly between my favorites (except for Synaesthete, which I didn’t quite like, although I still think that it’s a brilliant game).

    A small surprise here is the Grand Prize for Crayon Physics - I thought it might win in other categories instead.

    In the end I think that ALL finalists deserve LOTS of attention and I will surely play them and even buy most of them if they turn commercial.

  19. BeamSplashX said about 10 hours later:

    Congratulations to anyone that participated at all! You’re all winners! Winners don’t do drugs!

    COUGHtheywearmonoclesinsteadCOUGH

  20. MisterX said about 11 hours later:

    I really didn’t expect Crayon Physics Deluxe to win the big prize, but at least that also raises my anticipation for it :D Also I totally believe in Tower of Goo deserving the prize for innovation, but I guess we’re yet to see what it got awarded for, as the original game may be fun for a while, but only that short while :) Anyway, I guess all chosen finalists are truly shining examples of the great independent developments and why it is truly a treat to have all the developers around.

    Oh, and I also hope for a video of the awards. Any information on that? :)

  21. skaldicpoet9 said about 12 hours later:

    Awesome! Much kudos to Phil and Petri.

  22. Jad said about 12 hours later:

    Dom Camus: “it’s just that for me Fez is at a once-in-a-decade level of design brilliance.”

    For me it’s like this:

    It’s just that for me Fez har a once-in-a-decade design of level brilliance (:

  23. Zeno said about 13 hours later:

    Excellence in Audio to Audiosurf? Isn’t that, like, cheating?

    What if I play only really bad music? WHAT THEN?

    Lawl, I kid, I kid. Overall, the results weren’t that surprising to me. Good job, you indie game developers.

  24. Anonymous said about 14 hours later:

    “…it’s just that for me Fez is at a once-in-a-decade level of design brilliance.”

    rather:

    “…it’s just that for me Fez is at a THRICE-in-a-decade level of design brilliance. first Crush on PSP, then Super Paper Mario, and now this!”

  25. PHeMoX said about 14 hours later:

    “Excellence in Audio to Audiosurf? Isn’t that, like, cheating?

    What if I play only really bad music? WHAT THEN?”

    Well, unless you think your own music taste is extremely bad and you listen to your music involuntarily, I don’t see how any other music could beat the music style you like yourself anyways, right? :p

  26. DragonSix said about 14 hours later:

    I feel Konjak would’ve won with Chalk instead of Noitu Love 2 x[]

  27. Uniqueness said about 15 hours later:

    It’s just a shame that Crush wasn’t too good and Super Paper Mario didn’t abuse it’s gameplay too much. Fez looks to abuse it and I like that. Just looks a lot more fun and fluid.

    Agree with Audiosurf on sound. I’ve never had the chance to “play on” my music before. That wins for me. Thanks Audiosurf. Thaudiosurf.

  28. Dusty Spur said about 15 hours later:

    Congrats to all the winners (especially Fish and Petri)!

    And as long as we’re discussing Fez, the way the view-switching mechanic was (ab)used in that last trailer is really making me excited.

  29. xvs07 said about 16 hours later:

    By the by, the link to Crayon Physics Deluxe is pointing the wrong way (to the Crayon Physics prototype) and not to here ( http://www.kloonigames.com/crayon/ ) where it ought to.

  30. Tr00jg said 1 day later:

    Congrats guys!

  31. Derek said 1 day later:

    Thanks, xvs07, I fixed it. :)

  32. BMcC said 1 day later:

    I know I’ve done this, like, a million times in person, but CONGRATULATIONS!

    You all rule.

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