Umurangi Generation Wins the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the 23rd Annual Independent Games Festival Awards
July 21 2021 - 08:24PM
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Umurangi Generation also Honored with the
Excellence in Narrative Award
Other Winners Include Vessels, Genesis Noir,
Arrog, Teardown and Blaseball
Origame Digital’s Umurangi Generation won the Seumas McNally
Grand Prize at the 23rd annual Independent Games Festival (IGF)
Awards tonight. The ceremony, which honored some of the most
innovative and excellent independent games of the past year, took
place as part of the 2021 Game Developers Conference (GDC) virtual
event.
In addition to the Grand Prize, Umurangi Generation also won the
Excellence in Narrative Award. Umurangi Generation is a
first-person photography game set in a bleak future by Origame
Digital. Following an impending crisis, players act as a courier
for the Tauranga Express where they unlock a variety of photography
lenses and equipment throughout the game.
The full slate of 2021 IGF Award winners feature many notable
and fan-favorite titles, including the Excellence in Audio award
and Excellence in Visual Art award winner Genesis Noir by Feral Cat
Den, a stylish noir adventure game where players explore the
mysteries of the Big Bang and seek a way to destroy it before it
kills their love.
The Excellence in Design winner, Teardown by Tuxedo Labs, is a
game in which players prepare the perfect heist in a simulated and
fully destructible voxel world, using the environment to their
advantage in the most creative way they can think of. The Nuovo
Award, which honors the title that makes jurors ‘think differently
about games as a medium,’ went to developer The Game Band for
Blaseball, a baseball horror simulation game. In Blaseball, a full
season and championship series of "Internet League Blaseball" is
simulated.
The Best Student Game winner, Local Space Survey Corps, LLC’s
Vessels, is a character-driven story game where players experience
atmospheric, environmental storytelling as they piece together
clues on a ship reeling from a grisly death and spreading paranoia.
Additionally, Arrog by Hermanos Magia and Leap Game Studios won the
community-driven Audience Award, which is chosen by fans through a
public voting process.
The winners of the 23rd annual IGF Awards are:
Best Student Game ($2,000) Vessels (Local Space Survey
Corps, LLC)
Excellence in Audio ($2,000) Genesis Noir (Feral Cat
Den)
Excellence in Narrative ($2,000) Umurangi
Generation (Origame Digital)
Audience Award ($2,000) Arrog (Hermanos Magia and
Leap Game Studios)
Excellence in Design ($2,000) Teardown (Tuxedo
Labs)
Excellence in Visual Art ($2,000) Genesis Noir (Feral Cat
Den)
Nuovo Award ($2,000) Blaseball (The Game Band)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($10,000) Umurangi Generation
(Origame Digital)
The IGF was established in 1998 to recognize the best
independent game developers and encourage creativity and excellence
in independent games.
The awards were livestreamed on the official Twitch channel for
the Game Developers Conference (GDC) at Twitch.tv/GDC and are
archived both on Twitch and on the official GDC YouTube Channel at
http://www.youtube.com/c/gdconf.
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