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Generation Umurangi wins the IGF Grand Prix
The Game Developers Choice Awards and the Independent Games Festival Awards took place yesterday as part of the GDC 2021. At the first, the roguelite of the Greek myth of Supergiant Underworld won the grand prize, while the independent photography sim Generation Umurangi won the Seumas McNally Grand Prix at the IGF Awards.
The GDCA Game of the Year award wasn’t the only trophy Underworld won that night, because Supergiant also took home the best design and best audio awards. Sucker Punch Productions also won two awards, in the Best Visual Art and Audience Award, for Ghost of Tsushima. And Best Debut went to multiplayer indie horror game Phasmophobia, from developer Kinetic Games.
On the IGF side, Generation Umurangi won the grand prize as well as the award for excellence in storytelling. Genesis Black also won two awards, for excellence in audio and excellence in visual art, and community-driven narrative sports simulation Blasball won the Nuovo award, for games that “think differently about games as a medium”.
The Game Developers Choice Awards also presented a Pioneer Award to Tom Fulp, who created the Flash game hosting site Newgrounds, and a Lifetime Achievement Award to Laralyn McWilliams, who has 28 years of industry experience including as Creative Director of Sony. Online entertainment Free realms and as the main designer of Full spectrum warrior.
Here’s the full rundown of the rewards:
Winners of the Game Developers Choice Awards 2021:
Best sound: Underworld (Supergiant Games)
Best start: Phasmophobia (Kinetic games)
Better design: Underworld (Supergiant Games)
Best mobile game: Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
Innovation Award: Dreams (Media Molecule / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Story: 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)
Best VR / AR Game: Half-life: Alyx (Valve)
Public Prize: Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Game of the Year: Underworld (Supergiant Games)
Pioneer Award: Tom fulp
Lifetime Achievement Award: Laralyn mcwilliams
2021 Independent Games Festival Prizes
Best Student Game: Ships (Local Space Survey Corps, LLC)
Excellence in audio: Genesis Black (Wildcat land)
Excellence in storytelling: Generation Umurangi (Digital origame)
Public Prize: Arrog (Brothers Magic and Leap Game Studios)
Excellence in design: Tear down (Tuxedo labs)
Excellence in visual arts: Genesis Black (Wildcat land)
New price : Blasball (The play strip)
Grand Prize Seumas McNally: Generation Umurangi (Digital origame)
Archives of the full two awards ceremony are available on the GDC Twitch channel or the YouTube channel.
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