
インディゲームの祭典「Independent Games Festival」にて選出されるアワードの第22回ファイナリスト作品が発表されました。300人以上の審査員による第一次審査を通過した後に、業界の多様な専門家による最終審査を経て選出されたノミネート作品は以下の通り。大賞の「Seumas McNally Grand Prize」部門には『Mutazione』、『Untitled Goose Game』、『A Short Hike』、『Eliza』、『Slay the Spire』、『Anodyne 2: Return to Dust』の6作品が選出されています。
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- Mutazione(Die Gute Fabrik)
- Untitled Goose Game(House House)
- A Short Hike(Adam Robinson-Yu)
- Eliza(Zachtronics)
- Slay the Spire(Mega Crit Games)
- Anodyne 2: Return to Dust(Sean Han Tani & Marina Kittaka)
◯佳作
- Katana ZERO(Askiisoft
Excellence in Visual Art
- Mutazione(Die Gute Fabrik)
- Knights and Bikes(Foam Sword)
- Void Bastards(Blue Manchu)
- Creature in the Well(Flight School Studio)
- Eastward(Pixpil)
- Stone Story RPG(Martian Rex / standardcombo)
◯佳作
- LUNA The Shadow Dust(Lantern Studio)
- Eastshade(Eastshade Studios)
- Minute of Islands(Studio Fizbin)
- Katana ZERO(Askiisoft)
- Song of Bloom(Philipp Stollenmayer)
- A Short Hike(Adam Robinson-Yu)
- Creaks(Amanita Design)
Excellence in Audio
- Observation(No Code)
- Vectronom(Ludopium)
- Astrologaster(Nyamyam)
- Knights and Bikes(Foam Sword)
- Mutazione(Die Gute Fabrik)
- Untitled Goose Game(House House)
◯佳作
- Afterparty(Night School Studio)
- Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)(Popcannibal)
- Manifold Garden(William Chyr Studio)
- Alt-Frequencies(Accidental Queens)
- Don't Look(Don't Look Team)
- Lonely Mountains: Downhill(Megagon Industries)
- Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1(Cosmo D)
Excellence in Design
- Katana ZERO(Askiisoft)
- Lonely Mountains: Downhill(Megagon Industries)
- Slay the Spire(Mega Crit Games)
- A Short Hike(Adam Robinson-Yu)
- Elsinore(Golden Glitch)
- Patrick's Parabox(Patrick Traynor)
◯佳作
- Guildlings(Sirvo Studios)
- Nauticrawl(Andrea Interguglielmi)
- Blabyrinth(Sleeping Beast Games)
- Children of Morta(Dead Mage)
- Void Bastards(Blue Manchu)
- Untitled Goose Game(House House)
- Creature in the Well(Flight School Studio)
Excellence in Narrative
- Mutazione(Die Gute Fabrik)
- Heaven's Vault(inkle)
- Elsinore(Golden Glitch)
- Wide Ocean, Big Jacket(Turnfollow)
- Eliza(Zachtronics)
- LIONKILLER(Sisi Jiang)
◯佳作
- American Election(Greg Buchanan)
- Night Call(Monkey Moon, BlackMuffin)
- Astrologaster(Nyamyam)
- A Short Hike(Adam Robinson-Yu)
- Adventures With Anxiety! (Nicky Case)
- Observation(No Code)
Nuovo Award
- Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1(Cosmo D)
- Infini(Barnaque)
- The Space Between(Christoph Frey)
- Life Tastes Like Cardboard(Demensa)
- Promesa(Julian Palacios)
- Song of Bloom(Philipp Stollenmayer)
- The Longing(Studio Seufz)
- PAGAN: Autogeny(Oleander Garden)
◯佳作
- Astrologaster(Nyamyam)
- Elsinore(Golden Glitch)
- Fit for a King(Brent Ellison & Tanya X. Short)
- My Exercise(Atsushi Wada, Ryoya Usuha, Nobuaki Doi)
- Where the Bees Make Honey(Brian Wilson)
- Smile For Me(Gabe Lane and Yugo Limbo / LimboLane)
Best Student Game
- Orbital Bullet(SmokeStab)
- A Juggler's Tale(kaleidoscube)
- Forgotten(Mutiny Games)
- Neon Beats(OKYO Games)
- BORE DOME(Goblin rage)
- Nothing In Sight(Nothing In Sight Team)
◯佳作
- Unhatched(Filip Loster)
- Du Rejser (You Travel)(Victor Selnas Breum + Katinka)
- Trail Mix(Puzzsoft)
- Where the Bees Make Honey(Brian Wilson)
- Northbound(Johannes Koberle & Arno Justus)
- Evergreen Blues(David Su and Dominique Star)
最終的な受賞作品はGame Developers Conference(GDC)開催期間中、現地時間3月18日に発表予定。なお、その際には物理的な操作を行うような型にはまらない作品を対象とした「alt.ctrl.GDC Award」の受賞者も発表されます。