{"id":110481,"date":"2020-03-19T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/359780"},"modified":"2020-03-19T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T00:32:00","slug":"a-short-hike-wins-grand-prize-at-the-2020-independent-games-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/19\/a-short-hike-wins-grand-prize-at-the-2020-independent-games-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Hike wins Grand Prize at the 2020 Independent Games Festival!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Robinson-Yu\u2019s A Short Hike <\/em>won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game at the 22nd annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards tonight!<\/p>\n

Originally scheduled to take place during the now-postponed Game Developers Conference<\/a> in San Francisco, the IGF Awards ceremony was reformatted as a virtual livestream to recognize some of the most innovative and excellent independent games of the past year.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Grand Prize, A Short Hike <\/em>also won the community-driven Audience Award, which is chosen by fans through a public voting process. A Short Hike<\/em> uses a colorfully retro graphical style to present a vibrant exploration game that has players traversing the wilds of Hawk Peak Provincial Park, discovering hidden treasures, friendly hikers and the outside world in the process.<\/p>\n

The full slate of 2020 IGF Award winners feature a slew of distinct creations, including the Excellence in Audio award winner, Die Gute Fabrik\u2019s Mutazione<\/em>, the \u201cmutant soap opera\u201d adventure game that delves into themes of community and personal connection amidst a curious land of lovable mutated creatures. Inkle Studio\u2019s Heaven<\/em>\u2019s Vault, <\/em>the winner for Excellence in Narrative, is an archaeological science-fiction adventure that lets players uncover history and deeper truths through puzzle-solving and conversations.<\/p>\n

The Excellence in Design winner, Patrick<\/em>\u2019<\/em>s Parabox<\/em> by Patrick Traynor,<\/em> is a game that plays with the presence and absence of space, creating elaborate puzzles out of recursion and infinities. The Excellence in Visual Art award went to Knights and Bikes<\/em>, a colorfully hand-painted coming-of-age adventure by Foam Sword Games.<\/p>\n

The Nuovo Award, which honors the title that makes jurors \u2018think differently about games as a medium,\u2019 went to developer Christoph Frey for The Space Between, <\/em>a three act narrative experience using surreal motifs and a distinctly retro aesthetic to tell a story of a budding relationship between an architect named Martin and a woman named Clara. As the two explore the building site of the theatre that Martin is building, the two enter into a space where reality begins to subside and a dreamlike story of human relationships begins to unfold. <\/p>\n

Finally, the Best Student Game winner, Goblin Rage\u2019s Bore Dome<\/em>, is a first-person exploration game that offers players a glimpse into beautiful imperfection.<\/p>\n

The winners of the 22nd annual IGF Awards are:<\/p>\n

Excellence in Visual Art ($2,000)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Knights and Bikes<\/em> (Foam Sword)<\/p>\n

Excellence in Audio ($2,000)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mutazione <\/em>(Die Gute Fabrik)<\/p>\n

Excellence in Design ($2,000)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick<\/em>\u2019<\/em>s Parabox <\/em>(Patrick Traynor)<\/p>\n

Excellence in Narrative ($2,000)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heaven<\/em>\u2019<\/em>s Vault<\/em> (Inkle)<\/p>\n

Nuovo Award ($<\/strong>2,000<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Space Between<\/em> (Christoph Frey)<\/p>\n

Best Student Game ($2,000)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bore Dome<\/em> (Goblin Rage)<\/p>\n

Audience Award ($2,000)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Short Hike <\/em>(Adam Robinson-Yu)<\/p>\n

Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($10,000) <\/strong><\/p>\n

A Short Hike <\/em>(Adam Robinson-Yu)<\/p>\n

The IGF was established in 1998 to recognize the best independent game developers and encourage creativity and excellence in independent games.<\/p>\n

The awards were livestreamed on the official Twitch channel for the Game Developers Conference<\/a> at Twitch.tv\/GDC and are archived both on Twitch and on the official GDC YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Organizers would like to thank the generous supporters of this year\u2019s IGF, including [email protected]<\/a> (Platinum Sponsor) and Gamasutra.com (IGF Media Partner).<\/p>\n

For more information on the Independent Games Festival, please visit the official IGF website<\/a>.  For more details on the Game Developers Conference<\/a>, please visit the GDC\u2019s official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, or RSS.<\/p>\n

Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent Informa Tech<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam Robinson-Yu\u2019s A Short Hike won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game at the 22nd annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards tonight! Originally scheduled to take place during the now-postponed Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the IGF Awards ceremony was reformatted as a virtual livestream to recognize some of the most innovative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}