Winner List of Indie Game Award 2021

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Winner List

PRIZE GAME TITLE Developer/Team Country Area
Best Narration Raji: An Ancient Epic NODDING HEADS GAMES India
Best Audio Figment 2: Creed Valley Bedtime Digital Games Denmark
Best Visual Art Vigil: The Longest Night Glass Heart Studio Taiwan
Best Design Plebby Quest: The Crusades PiedPipers Team Korea
Best Innovation Word Game Team9 Taiwan
Best VR Game The Lost Foxfire Keio-NUS CUTE Center Singapore
Best Mobile Game Papertrail Newfangled Games United Kingdom
Grand Prix Raji: An Ancient Epic NODDING HEADS GAMES India
Winners Circle Award
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Raji: An Ancient Epic NODDING HEADS GAMES India

 

Best Narration / Winners Circle Award / Grand Prix

Game Title: Raji: An Ancient Epic
Developer/Team: NODDING HEADS GAMES (India)
Website: https://www.noddingheadsgames.com/
Game Intro:

Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action-adventure game set in ancient India. A young girl named Raji has been chosen by the gods to stand against the demonic invasion of the human realm. Her destiny? To rescue her younger brother and face the demon lord Mahabalasura.

Best Audio

Game Title: Figment 2: Creed Valley
Developer/Team: Bedtime Digital Games (Denmark)
Website: https://www.bedtime.io/
Game Intro:

Creed Valley is an adventure game set in the human mind. Make your way through mind-bending puzzles, musical boss fights and surreal landscapes

Best Visual Art

Game Title: Vigil: The Longest Night
Developer/Team: Glass Heart Studio (Taiwan)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/VigilTheGame/
Game Intro:

《Vigil: The Longest Night》 blends 2D side-scrolling action with subtle cosmic, and outright body, horror. In a world without sunlight, Leila, a member of the Vigil, returns to her hometown in search of her lost sister and becomes lost in a world of unimaginable terror as she uncovers the secrets of the town and source of evil that plagues the surrounding countryside. Vigil highlights a detailed art style inspired by paintings from the medieval period and influenced by the art of Chinese Paper Cutting. It takes inspiration from classics like Castlevania and modern marvels like Salt & Sanctuary and Bloodborne. We hope that Leila’s tale will catch your attention with its precise and technical combat along with its rich and strong narrative — a unique tale of eldritch horror that blends Lovecraftian prose and Taiwanese culture.

Best Design

Game Title: Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Developer/Team: PiedPipers Team (Korea)
Website: https://plebbyquest.com/
Game Intro:

Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?

Best Innovation

Game Title: Word Game
Developer/Team: Team9 (Taiwan)
Website: http://team9.co/
Game Intro:

Word game is literally a game of words.
Words are not only composing narratives and interfaces, but also representing objects, characters and scenes.
Player controls "I" to challenge puzzles composed of words. When "I" appears a secret room, in-game narrative clearly tells "I" that "there is no door”. However, in the world of word game, "I” can walk through the "door” because there is a “door”.
“I" should find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words.
May the best "I” win!

Best VR Game

Game Title: The Lost Foxfire
Developer/Team: Keio-NUS CUTE Center (Singapore)
Website: http://cutecenter.nus.edu.sg/projects/lost-foxfire.html
Game Intro:

The Lost Foxfire is a novel multisensory Virtual Reality (VR) game that uses sensory feedback (heat & smell) to engage players in an immersive VR gaming experience as players don a headset and a suit equipped with five heat modules to sense heat on the front, back, left, right of the neck, and one for the face together with a smell module.
The gameplay is to chase after a fox spirit that enjoys setting things on fire. Players must prevent the spirit from burning down a sacred temple by weakening the spirit using a fire extinguisher. However the fox is a cunning spirit that is able to create fake clones of itself. Players have to rely on heat and smell feedback to find the real one. The sensory cues pushes traditional VR gaming boundaries beyond conventional sense of sight and hearing but also touch and smell to win the game.

Best Mobile Game

Game Title: Papertrail
Developer/Team: Newfangled Games (United Kingdom)
Website: http://newfangled.games
Game Intro:

A top-down, narrative-driven puzzle game, where different levels exist on both sides of a piece of paper. These levels can be folded over, merging the worlds, and allowing the player to pass freely between them.
Yearning for her ailing grandmother, Alice daydreams of being in two places at once - her new life in the big city, and her hometown back with her family. As the line between daydream and reality blurs, she finds her two lives inexplicably linked.

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