Untitled Goose Game Snags Another GOTY Award, A Short Hike Wins IGFA Grand Prize
No one can stop the honk.
The conference may have been postponed, but last night, the 2020 Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent Game Festival Awards were still held online. Some of the big winners may not surprise you, especially if you're a fan of a certain mischievous goose.
Untitled Goose Game waddled away with another Game of the Year award to add to its stockpile of trophies, while Remedy Entertainment's Control won the most Choice awards with a total of three. ZA/UM's Disco Elysium also got two trophies; the introspective detective RPG was also our own site's selection for 2019's Game of the Year.
Roberta Williams received a Pioneer Award for her trailblazing work in the adventure genre, including Mystery House, King's Quest, and co-founding Sierra On-Line. Kate Edwards, the former head of the International Game Developers Association and current executive director of Global Game Jam, received an Ambassador Award for her work in mentoring and boosting initiatives in the game developer community.
For the indie awards, Adam Robinson-Yu's pleasant A Short Hike took home the Seumas McNally Grand Prize as well as the Audience Award. Knights and Bikes, Mutazione, Heaven's Vault, and more filled out the list of excellent games that you should definitely check out if you missed.
Here's a list of all the night's winners, starting with the Independent Games Festival Awards:
2020 Independent Games Festival Awards
Excellence in Visual Art
Knights and Bikes (Foam Sword)
Excellence in Audio
Mutazione (Die Gute Fabrik)
Excellence in Design
Patrick’s Parabox (Patrick Traynor)
Excellence in Narrative
Heaven’s Vault (Inkle)
Nuovo Award
The Space Between (Christoph Frey)
Best Student Game
Bore Dome (Goblin Rage)
Audience Award
A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu)
2020 Game Developers Choice Awards
Best Audio
Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games)
Best Debut Developer
ZA/UM (Disco Elysium)
Best Design
Baba is You (Hempuli)
Best Mobile Game
What the Golf? (Triband/The Label Limited)
Innovation Award
Baba is You (Hempuli)
Best Narrative
Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)
Best Technology
Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games)
Best Visual Art
Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games)
Best VR/AR Game
Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series (ILMxLAB and Oculus Studios/Disney)
Audience Award
Sky: Children of the Light (thatgamecompany)
Game of the Year
Untitled Goose Game (House House/Panic)
Pioneer Award
Roberta Williams
Ambassador Award
Kate Edwards
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