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#indieVisibility End of Year Awards Results
Dec 112011
This is what it was all about; the #indieVisibility End of Year Awards Golden Teabag. In ten years’ time they’ll probably be made of REAL GOLD, but for now they’re made out of a REAL TEABAG spray painted gold and therefore pretty dangerously toxic.
There’s too much to say. Winners and photos and thanks, after the jump.
At a crammed-and-amazing festive drink up in London’s fashionable Waterloo last night, the brightest and best of the UK’s indie scene gathered together to celebrate the last twelve months or so of indie gaming.
FIRSTLY: huge thank you to Sheridans who sponsored the event. If you’re an indie developer, they’re your lawyers. Do give them a bell if you’re in trouble with the police or don’t understand a contract.
SECONDLY: huge thank you to the guys from One Life Left who did a beyond-incredible job of hosting the awards. They were literally entertaining, apart from the bit where they stitched me up by making 70-odd drunk indie developers simultaneously Tweet that I was drunk and dangerous.
Thanks also to RockPaperShotgun, IndieGames.com, Rob Fearon, Ricky Haggett and Notch for coming up with the awards and picking out winners.
Thanks finally to everyone who came. I hope you had fun and drank too much and met people, and think it’s worth doing again next year with REAL GOLD teabags.
Here’s our amazing winners, and some photos:
IndieGames.com Strategy GOTY
Frozen Synapse – Mode7
IndieGames.com Platformer GOTY
Explodemon – Curve Studios
IndieGames.com Adventure GOTY
I Fought the Law and the Law One – ben304
IndieGames.com Arcade GOTY
Scoregasm – Charlie’s Games
IndieGames.com RPG GOTY
Project Zomboid – Indie Stone
IndieGames.com GOTY
Minecraft – Mojang
Most at one with nature
Proteus from Twisted Tree
Rudest-Sounding
Vertex Dispenser by Michael Brough
Best Auralgasms
Eufloria by Omni Systems
Most Fun in the Toilet
Super Spike Dislike from Jayenkai
The Rob Fearon Award for having all the ideas and not leaving any for anyone else
Honeyslug for Frobisher Says
RockPaperShotgun best weird ambient rambling music thing
Proteus – TwistedTree
RockPaperShotgun best use of the Unreal engine
Waves – Squid In a Box
RockPaperShotgun best spaceship combat game
Stellar Impact
RockPaperShotgun best attempt to do what mainstream devs will not
Xenonauts- Goldhawk
RockPaperShotgun best co-operative experience
At a Distance – Terry Cavanagh
RockPaperShotgun best game of the year, best story, best doctors, best scene featuring a rabbit that makes you cry, and so on
To The Moon
RockPaperShotgun best use of a dead cat, 2011
Binding of Isaac – Edmund McMillen
Best Placeholder Art
Proteus – Twisted Tree
Best Glowing Lines
Frozen Synapse – Mode7
Loneliest Room
Kairo – Richard Perrin
Best Minecraft
Minecraft – Mojang
Nicest Man
Alex Tutty
Excellence in Character Design
Thomas Was Alone – Mike Bithell
The “Why the fuck is this free?” award for hating money
Stealth Bastard- Curve Studios
Notch’s Game of the Year
“It hasn’t been released yet, but the game that’s inspired me the most in the last twelve months is Proteus by Ed Key and David Kanaga. It’s a wonderful game about exploring and understanding. Not much is explained, and not much happens, but the style works amazingly well, and it’s full of atmosphere and personality. It’s affected how I do game design from now on. Using small tools to convey big messages that might not even be there is a wonderful thing.”
Well done also to everyone who was nominated. You ALL deserve a dangerous teabag.
If you were there, let me know what you thought of it all. Worth doing again? Twittering me is best: @danthat.
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