Introversion's Darwinia picked up three awards at the Independent Games Festial Awards, including the $20,000 Grand Prize for Best Independent Game. Wierd Worlds: Return to Infinite Space picked up the Innovation In Audio award. For the list of all winners head on over to this
press release.
"The IGF awards have been described as the Sundance Festival of the video game world, and offer both global exposure and significant cash prizes to the lucky winners. Other winners included groundbreaking time-manipulation platform title Braid, which won for Innovation In Design, as well as cheeky Flash-based beat-em-up Dad 'N Me, which triumphed in the new Best Web Game category.
The first-ever IGF Modding Competition, which is awarding $10,000 in prizes to the best amateur 'modders' for existing video games, also saw outstanding winners, including cyberpunk mod Dystopia for Half-Life 2 and ancient Chinese mod Path Of Vengeance for Unreal Tournament 2004, as well as console-style RPG mod Rose Of Eternity -- Chapter 1 for Neverwinter Nights, and the visceral Last Man Standing Co-Op for Doom 3."
