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20回ファイナリスト作品が発表されました。各部門のノミネート作品は以下の通り。
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications)
- Into the Breach (Subset Games)
- Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments)
- Baba is You (Hempuli)
◯佳作
- Tacoma (Fullbright)
- Rain World (VIDEOCULT)
- Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps)
- Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm)
- Hollow Knight (Team Cherry)
- Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
- Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)
Excellence in Visual Art
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
- Echo (ULTRA ULTRA)
- Luna (Funomena)
- The Gardens Between (The Voxel Agents)
- Chuchel (Amanita Design)
◯佳作
- Jettomero: Hero of the Universe (Ghost Time Games)
- Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
- AER - Memories of Old (Forgotten Key)
- Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
- Rain World (VIDEOCULT)
- Shape of the World (Hollow Tree Games)
- Hollow Knight (Team Cherry)
Excellence in Audio
- Tormentor X Punisher (e-studio)
- Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
- Vignettes (Skeleton Business)
- Rain World (VIDEOCULT)
- Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
- Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
◯佳作
- Tumbleseed (Benedict Fritz, Greg Wohlwend, Joel Corelitz, David Laskey and Jenna Blazevich)
- Hollow Knight (Team Cherry)
- Tacoma (Fullbright)
- Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
- Million Onion Hotel (Onion Games)
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
Excellence in Design
- Into the Breach (Subset Games)
- Shenzhen I/O (Zachtronics)
- Wilmot's Warehouse (Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett, Eli Rainsberry)
- Baba Is You (Hempuli)
- Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
◯佳作
- Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments)
- Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
- Factorio (Wube Software)
- Space Pirate Trainer (I-Illusions)
- Battle Chef Brigade (Trinket Studios)
Excellence in Narrative
- Tacoma (Fullbright)
- Attentat 1942 (Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games)
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Butterfly Soup (Brianna Lei)
- Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
◯佳作
- A Mortician's Tale (Laundry Bear Games)
- Lost Memories Dot Net (Star Maid Games)
- Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps)
- Bury me, my Love (The Pixel Hunt, Figs and ARTE France)
- Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm)
- West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications)
- Rakuen (Laura Shigihara)
Nuovo Award
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
- Tarotica Voo Doo (TPM.CO SOFT WORKS)
- 10 Mississippi (Karina Popp)
- A Mortician's Tale (Laundry Bear Games)
- Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm)
- Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)
- Baba Is You (Hempuli)
- Kids (Playables)
◯佳作
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games)
- IO Interloper (DANG!)
- The Norwood Suite (Cosmo D Studios)
- Cheap Golf (Pixeljam)
- Witchball (S.L.Clark)
- Million Onion Hotel (Onion Games)
Best Student Game
- IO Interloper (DANG!)
- Don't Make Love (Maggese)
- Penny Blue Finds a Clue (DigiPen Team Cactus Curse)
- We Were Here (Total Mayhem Games)
- Baba Is You (Hempuli)
- Guardian of the Gears (DigiPen Team Studio 76)
◯佳作
- Crewsaders (Titan Squad)
- A.L.F.R.E.D. (Hugo Lefevre, Joseph Reichenbach, Romain Jaohar-Gaillard, Garance Royere Lebigre, Nicolas Tham, Marion Speiser, Delphine Migeot de Baran, Song Huang)
- MOLOCH (Seemingly Pointless)
- Kyklos Code (Cube Factory)
- Membrane (Perfect Hat / Seth S. Scott)
- That Blooming Feeling (The Tots Team)
- Tell Me What You See (Pesky Bees)
受賞作品は現地時間2018年3月21日に行われる「Independent Games Festival Awards」にて発表予定。総額50,000ドル以上の賞金が用意されており、大賞の“Seumas McNally Grand Prize”には30,000ドルが授与されます。
