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Every year, the IGF gives fans a chance to vote for their favorite game from the list of finalists to select the Audience Award recipient.

This year, the Game Developers Choice Awards will also be honoring a finalist game with an Audience Award by asking the worldwide gaming community to select their favorite. Voting for both awards is now open and will close on March 1, 2013 at 5pm EST. The winners will be announced at the 15th Annual Independent Games Festival and 13th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards Ceremony, on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, from 6:30-8:30pm.

The full list of Nominees

  • 140
  • 7 Grand Steps
  • Bad Hotel
  • Bientot l’Ete
  • Cart Life
  • dys4ia
  • FTL: Faster than Light
  • Gone Home
  • Guacamelee!
  • Hotline Miami
  • Incredipede
  • Intrusion 2
  • Kentucky Route Zero
  • LiquidSketch
  • Little Inferno
  • Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
  • MirrorMoon
  • Perspective
  • PixelJunk 4am
  • Samurai Gunn
  • Spaceteam
  • StarForge
  • Starseed Pilgrim
  • Super Hexagon
  • Super Space ____
  • Thirty Flights of Loving
  • VESPER.5
  • Year Walk

 2013 Independent Games Festival Finalists

The full list of finalists

Seumas McNally Grand Prize:

  • Cart Life
  • FTL: Faster than Light
  • Hotline Miami
  • Kentucky Route Zero
  • Little Inferno

Honorable mentions: Gone Home (The Fullbright Company); Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth); Super Hexagon (Terry Cavanagh); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe); and Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games)
Excellence in Visual Art:

  • Guacamelee!
  • Incredipede
  • Kentucky Route Zero
  • Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
  • Year Walk

Honorable mentions: Eleven (Christoffer Hedborg, Datahowler (Ross Edman)); FLY’N (Ankama Play); Hundreds (Semi Secret feat. aeiowu); The Bridge (Ty Taylor and Mario Castaneda); and Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace)
Technical Excellence:

  • Intrusion 2
  • LiquidSketch
  • Little Inferno
  • Perspective
  • StarForge

Honorable mentions: 140 (Jeppe Carlsen); Foldit (University of Washington); Gateways (Smudged Cat Games); Mobiloid (Monty Melby); and Skulls Of The Shogun (17-BIT)
Excellence in Design:

  • FTL: Faster than Light
  • Samurai Gunn
  • Starseed Pilgrim
  • Super Hexagon
  • Super Space ____

Honorable mentions: Helix (Michael Brough); Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games); Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation); rymdkapsel (martin jonasson, grapefrukt games); and Spaceteam (Henry Smith)
Excellence in Audio:

  • 140
  • Bad Hotel
  • Hotline Miami
  • Kentucky Route Zero
  • PixelJunk 4am

Honorable mentions: Dust: An Elysian Tail (Dean Dodrill – Creator and President, Humble Hearts LLC); FRACT OSC (Phosfiend Systems); Gone Home (The Fullbright Company); Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation); and Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace)
Excellence in Narrative:

  • Cart Life
  • dys4ia
  • Gone Home
  • Kentucky Route Zero
  • Thirty Flights of Loving

Honorable mentions: 7 Grand Steps (Mousechief Co.); Analogue: A Hate Story (Christine Love); Goblet Grotto (thecatamites, j chastain, NEW VADERS); Papo & Yo (Minority Media); and The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)
Nuovo:

  • 7 Grand Steps
  • Bientot l’Ete
  • Cart Life
  • dys4ia
  • Little Inferno
  • MirrorMoon
  • Spaceteam
  • VESPER.5

Honorable mentions: Frog Fractions (Twinbeard); Renga (wallFour); Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe); and Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games)

Student Showcase Finalists:

  • ATUM
  • Back to Bed
  • Blackwell’s Asylum
  • Farsh
  • Knights of Pen & Paper
  • Pulse
  • the mindfulxp volume
  • Zineth

Honorable mentions: Anodyne (University of Chicago and Carleton College); Chrono Disfunglement (DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore); Narcosis (ENJMIN); Plushy Knight (Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy); SerpenteS (ENJMIN); SneakSneak (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht); Tales from the Minus Lab (University of Southern California); and The Moonlighters (University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division)

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