Each year the Independent Games Festival awards recognize what are often the most interesting, most innovative games of the year. This year was no different.
Here are your winners:
Best Student Game
Fract
Technical Excellence
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Excellence in Design
Desktop Dungeons
Best Mobile Game
Helsing's Fire
Excellence in Visual Art
Bit.Trip Runner
Excellence in Audio
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
IGF Audience Award
Minecraft
Nuovo Award
Nidhogg
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Minecraft
As Monaco developer Andy Schatz put it: "The IGF is not intended to make a small thing big, it's a reminder that there is beauty hidden in the shadows of the big things."