The Independent Games Festival’s awards show will take place tonight at 9:30 pm EST. If you can’t make it all the way to San Francisco for the ceremony tonight, don’t worry. The whole thing will be streamed on Twitch, and can be watched below.
The ceremony will be hosted by Double Fine’s Tim Schafer and Capybara’s Nathan Vella. Many independent games, such as GNOG, Mini Metro and SUPERHOT, are getting honored tonight across multiple categories. The full list of awards categories and nominees are as follows:
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Darkest Dungeon
Her Story
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Mini Metro
SUPERHOT
UNDERTALE
(Honorable mentions: Affordable Space Adventures, Cibele, OXENFREE, PANORAMICAL, Soft Body, That Dragon, Cancer, The Beginner’s Guide, Twelve Minutes)
Excellence in Visual Art:
Armello
Darkest Dungeon
GNOG
Mini Metro
OXENFREE
PANORAMICAL
(Honorable mentions: Alto’s Adventure, Astroneer, Epistory - Typing Chronicles, Forkride Grilltime Sloth, Future Unfolding, Kingdom)
Excellence in Design:
Her Story
Infinifactory
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Kingdom
Mini Metro
SUPERHOT
(Honorable mentions: Chaos Reborn, Duskers, Gang Beasts, Imbroglio, Soft Body, TIS-100)
Excellence in Audio:
Darkest Dungeon
Lumini
Mini Metro
PANORAMICAL
That Dragon, Cancer
UNDERTALE
(Honorable mentions: GNOG, Heart Forth, Alicia, Inside My Radio, Kingdom, OXENFREE, The Beginner’s Guide)
Excellence in Narrative:
Black Closet
Her Story
That Dragon, Cancer
The Beginner’s Guide
The Magic Circle
UNDERTALE
(honorable mentions: Cibele, Contradiction, Orion Trail, OXENFREE, The Writer Will Do Something)
Nuovo Award:
Cibele
Fantastic Contraption
Her Story
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
orchids to dusk
PANORAMICAL
Progress
The Beginner’s Guide
(Honorable mentions: Affordable Space Adventures, ENOUGH, Future Unfolding, Sage Solitaire, Sentree, TIS-100, Vignettes)
Best Student Game:
Ape Out
Beglitched
Cambara
Circa Infinity
orchids to dusk
Pitfall Planet
(Honorable mentions: Anarcute, BADBLOOD, FAR, Gathering Sky, Not Everything is Flammable, Sumer)
So what do you think? Will you be tuning into the ceremony tonight? Who do you hope wins the top prize? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
