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Venba wins IGF Grand Prize for 2024Visai Games' cooking adventure also picked up two Game Developers Choice awards
Visai Games' cooking adventure also picked up two Game Developers Choice awards
Image credit:Visai Games
Image credit:Visai Games
The winners of the 2024 Independant Games Festival were announced at GDC last night, and it was Visai Games’Venbathat came home with the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. The cooking adventure was up for four IGF awards in total, including nominations for Excellence in Audio, Narrative and Visual Art. But there was no runaway winner at this year’s IGF Awards, with all prizes going to completely different indie games. Come and celebrate the full list of winners below.
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Excellence in Audio
Excellence in Design
Excellence in Narrative
Excellence in Visual Arts
Nuovo Award
Best Student Game
The public-votedAudience Awardalso went toRAM: Random Access Mayhemthis year (which I played thevery good Steam Next Fest demofor back in February). This award was open to every game that was nominated for an IGF award this year, which means it beat all other games to the punch. An amazing achievement, especially for a student game!
Finally,Chú Mófrom The Chú Mó Team@ArtCenter was awarded thealt.ctrl.gdc Award, which celebrates the most engaging, intriguing and well-executed games using unconventional, accessible or alternative physical controls.
Congratulations again to all involved, and another big round of applause to Venba - which also had further success at the Game Developers Choice Awards last night, which took place immediately after the IGF Awards. There, it also won Best Debut and the Social Impact Award, and you can find afull list of GDC Award winnerson the GDC website.
