Alt+Escape Favorite Gets Award Nomination

[Logan Westbrook]

Alt+Escape Favorite Gets Award Nomination

Today I Die, the favorite Alt+Escape title of 2009, has been nominated for an award in this years' Independent Gaming Festival at GDC.

The Game Developers Conference is just around the corner, and with it, the Independent Game Festival, and out of 306 entries, Today I Die [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/alt-escape/6963-Your-Five-Favorite-Alt-Escape-Games-of-2009.5], the most popular Alt+Escape title of 2009, has been nominated in the Nuovo category, which honors unconventional, unusual or abstract titles.

Other nominess include tongue-in-cheek BASE jumping game AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard For Gravity and gorey but cute Wii platformer Super Meat Boy. I've hidden the full list of nominees behind a spoiler tag, give it a click if you want to see.

Spoiler: The List in Full

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)

Source: Gay Gamer [http://gaygamer.net/2010/01/igf_2010_announces_finalists.html]



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[Jared]

Sweet!!! Ill be rooting for ya!!

 

[Windu23]

I'd have to push my vote for Closure. That game was just.....striking in all areas.

 

[Eric the Orange]

Today I Die, the favourite Alt+Escape title of 2009.

I have a little bit of a problem with the wording there. It was voted (I think, I don't know how Funk composed the list) #1 among the staff. To say it was the favorite over all makes it seem like your referring to everyone.

Re-reading that to myself it seems a little harsh. Be assured I mean no offense.

Oh, and "favourite" shows up as a misspelling in Firefox