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9-555: The Nuovo Award or Innovation Award is an award given at the Independent Games Festival (IGF), an annual event that takes place during the Game Developers Conference , one of the largest gatherings of the indie video game industry. The award is given to honor "abstract, shortform, and unconventional game development which advances the medium and the way we think about games". The award

18-565: A booth space and access to the convention, but finalists either must secure their own travel and lodgings, or name a proxy to demonstrate their games. During the convention, a separate jury selected by the IGF organization committee will review each game, and just prior to the awards, vote for one game in each category. The only exception is the Audience Award, which is voted through online forms by anyone interested. Years given below indicate

27-559: The Game Developers Conference (GDC), the largest annual gathering of the independent video game industry. Originally founded in 1998 to promote independent video game developers , and innovation in video game development by CMP Media, later known as UBM Technology Group , IGF is now owned by Informa after UBM's acquisition. The IGF competition awards a total of $ 50,000 in prizes to independent developers in Main Competition and Student Competition categories and held around

36-457: The fourteen years since the award's debut, 105 games have been nominated as finalists, while 84 games have been chosen as honorable mentions. Sixteen games have won the award, the first being the platformer Between (2009), while the latest to be awarded is Anthology of the Killer (2024). Independent Games Festival The Independent Games Festival ( IGF ) is an annual festival at

45-515: The other IGF award categories. Nominations for the award are made by the IGF's judges. Eight finalists are chosen by an elected jury from among the nominees and a few others are given honorable mentions if they receive insufficient votes to become finalists. The winner is decided from among the finalists by jury voting. Jury members include notable game developers and previous winners and finalists, including individuals such as Jason Rohrer , Paolo Pedercini ,  Ian Bogost , and Daniel Benmergui . In

54-541: The provided games to one or more of the categories. Then, for each award category, a pre-selected jury of between seven and fifteen members reviews the nominations and makes a final selection of six finalists (eight for the Nuovo award) and a number of honorable mentions. The selected finalists are expected to present their games at the IGF during the Games Developers Conference; the show provides them

63-785: The same time as the Game Developers Choice Awards event. From 2007 to 2010, there was a separate event called IGF Mobile for mobile phone games. The festival awards ceremony is split into two broad categories: the main IGF competition and the IGF Student Showcase. The main Independent Games Festival, held in March 2012 at San Francisco's GDC 2012, distributed nine major awards: An additional award, "Excellent in Narrative",

72-649: Was added for the 2013 IGF. In addition, the IGF's Student Showcase competition gives out the following awards each year: Prior to the Festival, developers have the opportunity to submit their game in a playable state to the IGF organization committee for a small fee. These titles are then sent to approximately 300 game industry representatives on the Nominating Committee; these representatives include both indie developers and more mainstream developers and publishers. Each Committee member can nominate any of

81-469: Was designed as a way for art games to compete with traditional indie games, and the winner was originally selected from a group of finalists and given a prize of US$ 2,500. In 2011, the IGF increased the prize money to US$ 5,000 due to the increased quality of the entries. The former IGF chairman Brandon Boyer described the Nuovo finalists as experimental games that attempted to distinguish themselves from established conventions, and would not fit in any of

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