Independent Propeller Awards Winners
SXSW went off and with it the indiePub, Zoo Entertainment, Inc.Independent Propeller Awards,the first ever South By Southwest’s (SXSW) video game development competition.
Selected from 150 submissions, the Grand Prize winner received a $50,000 cash prize, as well as the opportunity for a publishing deal with indiePub, in cooperation with Zoo Publishing. In addition, subcategory winners were offered a supplemental $25,000 prize in the categories of Best Art, Best Audio, Best Design and Technical Excellence, and both the Intel AppUpSM developer program and Unity Technologies sponsored awards recognizing innovation and development.
Winners of the Independent Propeller Awards
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Grand Prize: GLiD (Glid) - A single player ambient exploration game of a small robot tasked with exploring and restoring an abandoned world.
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Best Art: The Uncanny Fish Hunt (Uncanny Games) - An adventure game where players take on the role of Siméon to fight an unleashed ocean.
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Best Audio: Skinny (Thomas Brush) - An exploration and adventure game where players help Skinny, a skinny freak, save the apocalyptic world from their minds.
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Best Design: Chewy (Happy Candy Co.) - A 2D platformer in which players control Chewy, a sticky piece of gum.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The winners’ games can be played online at: www.indiepub.com.
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