Umurangi Generationtakes home the IGF Grand Prize
Both the Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent Games Festival Awards took place yesterday as part of GDC 2021. At the former, Supergiant’s Greek myth rogueliteHadestook home the big award, while indie photography simUmurangi Generationwon the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the IGF Awards.
The GDCA Game of the Year award wasn’t the only trophyHadestook home that night, as Supergiant also won the Best Design and Best Audio awards. Sucker Punch Productions also picked up two awards, in Best Visual Art and Audience Award, forGhost of Tsushima. And Best Debut went to the multiplayer indie horror gamePhasmophobia, from developer Kinetic Games.
On the IGF side,Umurangi Generationtook the Grand Prize as well as the award for Excellence in Narrative.Genesis Noiralso picked up two awards, for Excellence in Audio and Excellence in Visual Art, and the community-driven narrative sports simBlaseballwon the Nuovo Award, for games that “think differently about games as a medium.”
The Game Developers Choice Awards also gave a Pioneer Award to Tom Fulp, who created the Flash game-hosting site Newgrounds, and a Lifetime Achievement Award to Laralyn McWilliams, who holds 28 years of experience in the industry, including being the Creative Director for Sony Online Entertainment’sFree Realmsand as the lead designer forFull Spectrum Warrior.
Best Mobile Game:Genshin Impact(miHoYo)
Innovation Award:Dreams(Media Molecule / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Narrative:The Last of Us Part II(Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Technology:Microsoft Flight Simulator(Asobo Studio / Xbox Game Studios)
Best Visual Art:Ghost of Tsushima(Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Audience Award:Arrog(Hermanos Magia and Leap Game Studios)
Nuovo Award:Blaseball(The Game Band)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:Umurangi Generation(Origame Digital)
Archives of the full ceremony for both awards can be found over on theGDC Twitch channelorYouTube channel.
