Then, for each award category, a pre-selected jury of between seven and fifteen members reviews the nominations and makes a final selection of six finalists (eight for the Nuovo award) and a number of honorable mentions. Each Committee member can nominate any of the provided games to one or more of the categories. These titles are then sent to approximately 300 game industry representatives on the Nominating Committee these representatives include both indie developers and more mainstream developers and publishers. Prior to the Festival, developers have the opportunity to submit their game in a playable state to the IGF organization committee for a small fee.
IGF Student Showcase Winner (eight winners, $500).In addition, the IGF's Student Showcase competition gives out the following awards each year: Nuovo Award ($5,000) (originally Innovation Award)Īn additional award, "Excellent in Narrative", was added for the 2013 IGF.The main Independent Games Festival, held in March 2012 at San Francisco's GDC 2012, distributed nine major awards: The festival awards ceremony is split into two broad categories: the main IGF competition and the IGF Student Showcase. The IGF competition awards a total of $50,000 in prizes to independent developers in Main Competition and Student Competition categories and held around the same time as the Game Developers Choice Awards event.įrom 2007 to 2010, there was a separate event called IGF Mobile for mobile phone games. Originally founded in 1998 to promote independent video game developers, and innovation in video game development by CMP Media, later known as UBM Technology Group, IGF is now owned by Informa after UBM's acquisition. The Independent Games Festival ( IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the largest annual gathering of the independent video game industry. Aquaria developer Jenna Sharpe, Alec Holowka and Derek Yu on the reception of the IGF prize 2007
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