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http://igf.com/2011/01/2011_independent_games_festiva_11.html#more

Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games)
SpyParty (Chris Hecker)
Desktop Dungeons (QCF Design)
Minecraft (Mojang)
Nidhogg (Messhof)

Excellence In Visual Art
Bastion (Supergiant Games)
The Dream Machine (Cockroach)
Cave Story (2010 Edition) (Nicalis)
Bit.Trip Runner (Gaijin Games)
Hohokum (Honeyslug & Richard Hogg)

Technical Excellence
Minecraft (Mojang)
Confetti Carnival (SpikySnail Games)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games)
Neverdaunt:8Bit (Robot Loves Kitty)
Miegakure (Marc Ten Bosch)

Excellence In Design
Desktop Dungeons (QCF Design)
Super Crate Box (Vlambeer)
Nidhogg (Messhof)
Faraway (Steph Thirion)
Minecraft (Mojang)

Excellence In Audio
Bastion (Supergiant Games)
Retro City Rampage (Vblank Entertainment)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games)
Bit.Trip Beat (Gaijin Games)
Cobalt (Oxeye Game Studio)

Best Mobile Game
Shot Shot Shoot (Erik Svedang)
Colorbind (Nonverbal)
Helsing's Fire (Ratloop)
Solipskier (Mikengreg)
Halcyon (Stfj)

Nuovo

- Bohm, created by Monobanda - ("Gives you control over the life of a tree. It's a game based on slow gameplay and the act of creation.")

- A House in California, created by Cardboard Computer - ("A surreal, narrative game about four characters who bring a house to life... with environments and activities drawn from a combination of memory, research, poetry, and fantasy.")

- Nidhogg, created by Messhof - ("A 2 player fencing game with football & platforming elements".)

- Dinner Date, created by Stout Games - ("You play as the subconsciousness of Julian Luxemburg, waiting for his date to arrive. You listen in on his thoughts while tapping the table, looking at the clock and eventually reluctantly starting to eat...")

- Loop Raccord, created by Nicolai Troshinsky - ("Manipulate a series of video clips in order to create... continuous movement.")

- The Cat and the Coup, created by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad - ("A documentary game in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran.")

- Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now (B.U.T.T.O.N.), created by Copenhagen Game Collective - ("A one-button party game for 2-8 players. ... rather than let the computer carry out all the rules, the players are themselves responsible for enforcing (or not enforcing) the rules.")

- Hazard: The Journey Of Life, created by Demruth - ("A philosophical first person single player environmental puzzle game. The game presents no goals directly to the player, but they create goals for themselves based on what they know of the world.")
Halcyon (Stfj)

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I'm surprised by Desktop Dungeons being a grand prize finalist, since i didn't think so much of it, but will go check it out soon.
Also found it quite an achievement for Nidhogg to be nominated for both Grand Prize and Nuovo, as they seem to be almost opposites.

Otherwise I'm still looking forward to playing Miegakure and Nidhogg myself.

What about you guys and girls?

[Taiko]

I'm glad to see SpyParty made the list for the Grand Prize.  It was incredibly entertaining at PAX.  People were crowded around to see it the whole time.

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Oh yeah, totally!
Especially after hearing in this http://youtu.be/famaMoGHoZQ interview that the game was at least 2 years off, according to Hecker himself.

[eva_]

sad for overgrowth not being in technical but anyway good so far

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It did get a honorary mention (cut them above for brevity), so it came close.

[Dragonmaw]

I actually kinda hoped Overgrowth would make it into Visual or Grand Prize, since it's one damn-fine looking game. But it's still in Alpha, I suppose. Maybe next year.

[Blademasterbobo]

sad for overgrowth not being in technical but anyway good so far

Maybe it's just not a real gam yet.

I really like the list this year, no real complaints. (Well, I dunno about Minecraft; while it deserves the nominations, I'm still iffy on it having been submitted.) It's awesome that nidhogg is in the main finalists, and everything is pretty well suited to its category.

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[Zaphos]

I will have to give desktop dungeons a try too.  Also amnesia, though I'm not good with horror ...

Overall, I like the list this year!

btw the OP missed the honorable mentions and one of the mobile entries, so for completeness here's the missed stuff:

Seumas McNally Grand Prize Honorable mentions: Neptune's Pride (Iron Helmet Games); Super Crate Box (Vlambeer); Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (Carpe Fulgur); Bit.Trip Runner (Gaijin Games); Retro City Rampage (Vblank Entertainment).

Excellence In Visual Art Honorable mentions: Retro City Rampage (Vblank Entertainment); Cobalt (Oxeye Game Studio); Faraway (Steph Thirion); Helsing's Fire (Ratloop); Flotilla (Blendo Games).

Technical Excellence Honorable mentions: Cobalt (Oxeye Game Studio); Achron (Hazardous Software); Hazard: The Journey Of Life (Demruth); Overgrowth (Wolfire Games); Swimming Under Clouds (Piece Of Pie Studios)

Excellence In Design Honorable mentions: Helsing's Fire (Ratloop); Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (Carpe Fulgur); Flotilla (Blendo Games); Bo (Mahdi Bahrami); Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now [B.U.T.T.O.N.] (Copenhagen Game Collective)

Excellence In Audio Honorable mentions: Bit.Trip Runner (Gaijin Games); Cave Story (2010 Edition) (Nicalis); Jamestown (Final Form Games); NightSky (Nicalis); Planck (Shadegrown Games)

Best Mobile Game
Halcyon (Stfj)

Best Mobile Game Honorable mentions: Flick Kick Football (PikPok); Shibuya (Nevercenter); Spirits (Spaces Of Play); Tentacles (Press Play); Trainyard (Matt Rix)

And the nuovo honorable mentions:

In addition to the 8 Nuovo finalists, the jury also awarded honorable mentions to the following 5 outstanding Nuovo-styled titles which also deserve recognition: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games), Faraway (Steph Thirion), Feign (Ian Snyder), Choice Of Broadsides (Choice Of Games), and Spy Party (Chris Hecker).

[Dragonmaw]

I'm actually really happy SCB got mentioned for Grand Prize.

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I will have to give desktop dungeons a try too.  Also amnesia, though I'm not good with horror ...

Overall, I like the list this year!

btw the OP missed the honorable mentions and one of the mobile entries, so for completeness here's the missed stuff:

Yeah I mentioned i cut it for brevity, but thanks

Crazy btw that Spy Party did not get nominated for Nuovo (though mentioned), but did for the Grand Prize.

[iffi]

I'm surprised to see Cave Story nominated for Excellence in Visual Art, and, to a lesser extent, Nidhogg and Desktop Dungeons for the grand prize. Glad to see Super Crate Box and SpyParty in there, though.
I'm disappointed that La-Mulana and Recettear didn't get any nominations (though Recettear did get two honorable mentions), and that Achron didn't get nominated for Technical Excellence.

[allen]

not a bad year.

Cat and the Coup looks fantastic really, really excited for that game.

Glad Amnesia got a nomination in Audio. So horrible the audio in that game (in a good way) especially the teeth grinding.

[Dustin Smith]

I really want to play Nidhogg; my little bro is in town so it'd be the perfect time to give it a test run for reviewing purposes.

I spent way too much time this year with Desktop Dungeons, I'm glad it's sort of validated with its nominations.