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IGF 2010 Finalists Announced for Main Competition

What a great way to start off our new year, indie fans: the main competition finalists are in and the nominations are plentiful! In order to provide the highest-quality judging, the Independent Games Festival enlisted the help of over 150 judges from the indie and mainstream industries. That’s a good thing considering that nearly $50,000 in prizes will be given away at the event, taking place on March 11 at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA.

This year, IGF will also be offering another category for the $2,500 Nuovo Award, picked by its own jury who have released a statement regarding their finalists at this location. The Nuovo Award is geared toward recognizing the esoteric and “artsy” titles from the long list of IGF submissions.

And so, without further ado, here are the 2010 IGF finalists!

Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Joe Danger (Hello Games)
Monaco (Pocketwatch Games)
Rocketbirds: Revolution! (Ratloop Asia)
Trauma (Krystian Majewski)
Super Meat Boy! (Team Meat)

Excellence In Visual Art
Shank (Klei Entertainment)
Owlboy (D-Pad Studios)
Trauma (Krystian Majewski)
Limbo (Playdead)
Rocketbirds: Revolution! (Ratloop Asia)

Excellence In Design
Miegakure (Marc Ten Bosch)
Star Guard (Sparky)
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard For Gravity (Dejobaan Games)
Monaco (Pocketwatch Games)
Cogs (Lazy 8 Studios)

Excellence In Audio
Super Meat Boy! (Team Meat)
Shatter (Sidhe)
Closure (Closure Team)
Rocketbirds: Revolution! (Ratloop Asia)
Trauma (Krystian Majewski)

Technical Excellence
Closure (Closure Team)
Limbo (Playdead)
Heroes Of Newerth (S2 Games)
Joe Danger (Hello Games)
Vessel (Strange Loop Games)

Nuovo Award
Today I Die (Daniel Benmergui)
A Slow Year (Ian Bogost)
Tuning (Cactus)
Closure (Closure Team)
Enviro-Bear 2000 (Justin Smith)

There you have it, folks! Expect the D2D Vision Award finalists to be announced in the near future while the ten Student Showcase award winners will be announced in the week of January 11th (that’s next week). On a side note, I’m really happy that the Closure Team received three nominations for Closure as that was one of our randomly chosen IGF Submission Picks. Who woulda thunk it?

[Source: IGF]