Independent Games Festival

Logo of the Independent Games Festival
FTL: Faster Than Light developer Subset Games at the IGF 2013.
FEZ developers with the IGF prize 2012
Aquaria developer Jenna Sharpe, Alec Holowka and Derek Yu on the reception of the IGF prize 2007

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developers.[1] IGF was founded to create for the independent game community the same benefit the Sundance Film Festival has brought to the independent film community,[1] and is produced by the CMP Game Group, producers of the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine, and Gamasutra.com.[1]

The competition, now in its 19th year, awards a total of $50,000 in prizes to independent developers in Main Competition and Student Competition categories at the IGF Awards Ceremony, which is one of the highlights of the Game Developers Conference and held alongside the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony.

Competition Structure

The festival awards ceremony is split into two broad categories: the main IGF competition and the IGF Student Showcase.[1]

The main Independent Games Festival, held in March 2012 at San Francisco's GDC 2012, distributed nine major awards:[1]

An additional award, "Excellent in Narrative", was added for the 2013 IGF.[2]

In addition, the IGF's Student Showcase competition gives out the following awards each year:

IGF Competition award history

Years given below indicate the year when the award was given, with the games or developers being recognized from the previous year.

(Main) IGF Competition

Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($30,000)

Nuovo (Innovation) Award ($5,000)

Excellence In Visual Art ($3,000)

Excellence In Audio ($3,000)

Excellence in Design ($3,000)

Technical Excellence ($3,000)

This award was retired starting from the 2014 competition onward.

Excellence in Narrative

Best Mobile Game ($3,000)

Best Web Browser Game (2006-2008)

Audience Award ($3,000)

IGF Mod Competition (2006–2007)

2007 Mod Awards

Best Mod ($5,000 Overall): Weekday Warrior (Half-Life 2)
Best Singleplayer FPS Mod ($500): Weekday Warrior (Half-Life 2)
Best Multiplayer FPS Mod ($500): Eternal Silence (Half-Life 2)
Best RPG Mod ($500): Darkness over Daggerford (Neverwinter Nights)
Best 'Other' Mod ($500): Spawns Of Deflebub (Unreal Tournament 2004)

2006 Mod Awards

Best Mod – Doom 3 ($2,500): Last Man Standing Coop
Best Mod – Half-Life 2 ($2,500): Dystopia
Best Mod – Neverwinter Nights ($2,500): Rose Of Eternity: Chapter 1
Best Mod – Unreal Tournament 2004 ($2,500): Path Of Vengeance

IGF Student Showcase Winner

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "About the IGF", www.IGF.com.
  2. ↑ "2013 Independent Games Festival announces Main Competition finalists". Gamasutra. 2013-01-07. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
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