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Independent Propeller Award Winners Announced
Last December the first annual Independent Propeller Awards competition was announced, described as a collaborative effort between IndiePub and SXSW to promote independent gaming. Winners of the competition were revealed at the annual festival today.
The number of submissions totaled over 150. The grand prize winner received a massive $50,000 cash prize as well as a publishing deal with indiePub/Zoo Publishing. Winners in the subcategories were taken care of, too, each walking away with $25,000. Check out the list of lucky indie developers below.
Winners of the Independent Propeller Awards
- Grand Prize: GLiD (Glid) - A single player ambient exploration game of a small robot tasked with exploring and restoring an abandoned world.
- Best Art: The Uncanny Fish Hunt (Uncanny Games) - An adventure game where players take on the role of Siméon to fight an unleashed ocean.
- Best Audio: Skinny (Thomas Brush) - An exploration and adventure game where players help Skinny, a skinny freak, save the apocalyptic world from their minds.
- Best Design: Chewy (Happy Candy Co.) - A 2D platformer in which players control Chewy, a sticky piece of gum.
- Technical Excellence: Creo (Peter Angstadt) - A physics puzzle game in which players must create and experiment to succeed by helping Creo and his friends home from school each day.
- Intel Innovation Award: Deep Sea (Robin Arnott) - An audio-only game where players are plunged into a world of blackness occupied only by the sound of their own breathing and the rumbles made by unseen terrors.
- Unity Development Award: Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers (Black Pants Game Studio) - A story of a thief who had stolen our hero's most valued possession - a pair of underpants.
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