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Umurangi Generation and Hades are officially ‘the best’ at the IGF and GDC 2021 awardsGenesis Noir and Teardown were also big winners
Genesis Noir and Teardown were also big winners
The Independent Games Festival awards and the Game Developers Conference awards were held last night in cyberspace. Like a Zoom meeting for the soul, the ceremony hopped between the winning game developers’ living rooms, with host Victoria Tran (community director onAmong Us) stitching it all together with a remarkable combination of enthusiasm, sincerity, and silliness. She gets an IGF from me.
The 2021 Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Choice AwardsWatch on YouTube
The 2021 Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Choice Awards
Alongside being touted as the game of the year, Hades also took the awards for ‘Best Audio’ and ‘Best Design’ at the GDC ceremony. Well done, Supergiant Games!
Newsgrounds' Tom Fulp was awarded the ‘Pioneer Award’, presumably for the site and not for scaling a mountain or skinning a goat. Laralyn McWilliams, who was the lead developer ofFull Spectrum Warriorand the creative director on Sony’sFree Realms, won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
What a lovely morning all the winners must be having now. Well done to those who won, and everyone who was nominated, and to everyone else, because we could all use an award right now.
