Unpacking and Inscryption lead 2022 IGF Awards nominations
Jeffrey Rousseau
Staff Writer
Friday 7th January 2022
Yesterday the Independent Games Festival revealed its finalists for the 24th annual IGF Awards, with Witch Beam's Unpacking and Daniel Mullins Games' Inscryption leading with nominations each in the same four categories, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize.
Joining them in the grand prize running were Four Quarters' RPG Loop Hero, ACE Team's open-world exploration game The Eternal Cylinder, Consumer Softproducts' tactical FPS Cruelty Squad, and Studio Pixel Punk's action-adventure game Unsighted.
This year's nominations were selected from a pool of over 400 indie games.
The winners will be revealed at the IGF Awards show on March 23.
Here is the list of the IGF Awards nominees for 2022 in full:
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Honorable Mentions: Toem (Something We Made), Norco (Geography of Robots), Overboard! (inkle), Satumalia (Santa Ragione), Dodgeball Academia (Pocket Trap), Webbed (Sbug Games), Fuzz Dungeon (Jeremy Couillard)
Excellence in Audio
Honorable Mentions: Severed Steel (Greylock Studios), A Musical Story (Glee-Cheese Studios), Death's Door (Acid Nerve), The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Falling Squirrel), Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab), Overboard! (inkle), The Wild at Heart (Moonlight Kids)
Excellence In Design
Honorable Mentions: Loop Hero (Four Quarters), Unsighted (Studio Pixel Punk), Mini Motorways (Dinosaur Polo Club), Card Shark (Nerial), KeyWe (Stonewheat & Sons), Sunshine Heavy Industries (Daisyowl Games)
Excellence In Narrative
Honorable Mentions: Card Shark (Nerial), Norco (Geography of Robots), The Big Con (Mighty Yell), Tux and Fanny (Ghost Time Games), Opus: Echo of Starsong (Sigono), Sable (Shedworks), Blackhaven (Historiated Games)
Excellence In Visual
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