Independent Games Festival

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developers. IGF was founded to create for the independent game community the same benefit the Sundance Film Festival has brought to the independent film community, and is produced by the CMP Game Group, producers of the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine, and Gamasutra.com.

The competition, now in its 19th year, awards a total of $50,000 in prizes to independent developers in Main Competition and Student Competition categories at the IGF Awards Ceremony, which is one of the highlights of the Game Developers Conference and held alongside the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony.

The festival awards ceremony is split into two broad categories: the main IGF competition and the IGF Student Showcase.

The main Independent Games Festival, held in March 2012 at San Francisco's GDC 2012, distributed nine major awards:

An additional award, "Excellent in Narrative", was added for the 2013 IGF.

In addition, the IGF's Student Showcase competition gives out the following awards each year:

Years given below indicate the year when the award was given, with the games or developers being recognized from the previous year.

This award was retired starting from the 2014 competition onward.

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