Venba leads the nomination pack, with A Highland Song, Cocoon and more in hot pursuit
Here’s the full list of nominees:
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Honorable Mentions:
Chants of Sennaar (Rundisc/Focus Entertainment), Final Profit: A Shop RPG (Brent Arnold),Goodbye Volcano High(KO_OP), In Stars and Time (insertdisc5/Armor Games Inc),Rhythm Doctor(7th Beat Games, indienova),Tchia(Awaceb/Kepler Interactive),The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood(Deconstructeam/Devolver Digital)
Best Student Game
Honorable Mentions:
A Day With Mochi (San Felicete Studio/Rubika Supinfogame), Barkane: The Folds of Calamity (Chase O’Brien & VGDev), Birds Aren’t Real: The Game (USC Games), Cyberside Picnic (Michael Luo/Cathode Radiator), Entangled (Fibula Studio), Lime Juice (Benbees), Re:Fresh (Merge Conflict Studio)
Excellence in Audio
Honorable Mentions:
Anthology of the Killer (Thecatamites, Tommy Tone, A. Degen), El Paso, Elsewhere (Strange Scaffold), Let’s! Revolution! (Antfood, BUCK/Hawthorn Games), Planet of Lana (Wishfully/Thunderful Publishing), Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical (Summerfall Studios/Humble Games)
Excellence in Design
Honorable Mentions:
20 Small Mazes (FLEB), Peaks of Yore (Anders Grube Jensen/TraipseWare), Price of Flight (WATERBOX), Timberborn (Mechanistry)
Excellence in Narrative
Honorable Mentions:
Goodbye Volcano High (KO_OP), Saltsea Chronicles (Die Gute Fabrik), Slay the Princess (Black Tabby Games), Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical (Summerfall Studios/Humble Games), The Archivist and the Revolution (Autumn Chen)
Excellence in Visual Arts
Honorable Mentions
30 Birds (RAM Games, Ram Ram, Business Goose Studios/ARTE France), Chants of Sennaar (Rundisc/Focus Entertainment), Goodbye Volcano High (KO_OP), NIDUS (Caleb Wood), SLUDGE LIFE 2 (Terri Vellmann, DOSEONE/Devolver Digital)
Nuovo Award
Honorable Mentions:
BlueSuburbia (alienmelon), goodbye.monster (Monster Team), In Stars and Time (insertdisc5/Armor Games Inc), Nour: Play With Your Food (Terrifying Jellyfish/Panic), The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood (Deconstructeam/Devolver Digital)
The final IGF award, meanwhile, is the Audience Award, which you canvote for right now, up until January 31st. The list of nominees includes all the games that made it to finalist status this year, so if you want to show some love to your particular favourite this year, make sure you submit your vote before the deadline.
