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GDC Gallery: The Independent Games Festival Awards

Gamasutra contributor Vincent Diamante has been documenting this year's Game Developers Conference in visual form - here's his look at the 2007 Independent Games Festival Awards, held last night at the Moscone Center.

Simon Carless, Blogger

February 21, 2008

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[Gamasutra contributor Vincent Diamante has been documenting this year's Game Developers Conference in visual form. Here's his look at the 2007 Independent Games Festival Awards, held last night at the Moscone Center - in which Crayon Physics Deluxe took the Seumas McNally Grand Prize.]

Jamil Moledina & Simon Carless introduce the awards.

The Student Showcase nominees are... showcased!

Synaesthete wins out at the Student Showcase

IGF co-organizers Matthew Wegner and Steve Swink (Off-Road Velociraptor Safari for the win!)

Fez wins out, fez worn on stage.

IGF awards presenter (and Venture Artic creator!) Andy Schatz.

Petri Purho, with monocle in place, accepts the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. [Other pictures of the Independent Games Festival awards, including photos of the other winners and presenters, are available on Vincent's Flickr stream.]

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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