A Six One Indie apresentará o The Indie Game Awards 2025 no dia 18 de dezembro, às 17h30 (horário de Brasília). A cerimônia, dedicada exclusivamente à premiação, homenageará as conquistas de jogos e desenvolvedores independentes em categorias como inovação, narrativa, arte e muito mais. A transmissão será feita pelo YouTube.
Uma das novidades da cerimônia deste ano é a Indie Vanguard Class, uma seleção de cinco desenvolvedores que “representam o futuro da indústria e estão entre aqueles que estão abrindo caminho para o cenário indie”, além de novas categorias regionais e específicas para cada showcase, com curadoria de showcases como Latin American Games Showcase, Women-Led Games e Black Voices in Gaming. Os espectadores também poderão agora enviar seus jogos independentes favoritos de diversos gêneros para o novo segmento Community Picks.
A cerimônia contará com 28 apresentadores, incluindo Chandana Ekanayake, Lena Raine, Remy Siu e Chipzel. Os indicados foram escolhidos por um painel diversificado de curadores de mostras de jogos independentes e especialistas do setor, incluindo Six One Indie, Latin American Games Showcase, Women-Led Games, Wholesome Games, The MIX, Black Voices in Gaming, Frosty Games Fest, Southeast Asian Games Showcase, Playtopia Festival e The Indie Informer, além de vozes proeminentes do jornalismo de jogos e da criação de conteúdo, como Giant Bomb, Game Informer, GameSpot, Wanderbots, Steve Saylor e noclip.
Veja a lista de indicados a seguir:
Achievement in Accessibility
- Abiotic Factor (Deep Field Games, Playstack)
- Barista (YofiAsi)
- Calm the Storm (Ludic Lemur)
- Peak (Team PEAK, Aggro Crab, Landfall)
- Spray Paint Simulator (North Star Video Games, Whitethorn Games)
- Squeakross: Home Squeak Home (Alblune)
ANZ Indie Game Award
- Abiotic Factor (Deep Field Games, Playstack)
- Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
- Mars First Logistics (Shape Shop, Outersloth)
- PROXIMATE (Cain Maddox)
- Tempopo (Witchbeam, CULT Games)
- The Drifter (Powerhoof)
Bite-Sized
- CARIMARA: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs (Bastinus Rex, CRITICAL REFLEX)
- FlyKnight (Wabbaboy)
- Many Nights a Whisper (Deconstructeam, Selkie Harbour)
- The Dark Queen of Mortholme (Mosu, Monster Theater)
- this game will end in 205 clicks. (insertdisc5)
- Time Flies (Playables, Panic)
Black Voices in Gaming Award
- Advent Neon (CryoGX)
- Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi (MarsLit Games, Neon Doctrine, Game Seer Publishing)
- Sorry We’re Closed (a la mode games, Akupara Games)
- Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To (Soft Not Weak)
- Sunken Stones (Spritewrench)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (Strange Scaffold)
Community Management
- Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder, Hexecutable)
- Date Everything! (Sassy Chap Games, Team17)
- IKEELYA (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)
- PEAK (Team PEAK, Aggro Crab, Landfall)
- Soulstone Survivors (Game Smithing Limited)
- Strange Scaffold (Strange Scaffold, Frosty Pop)
Debut Game
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive, Kepler Interactive)
- Discounty (Crinkle Cut Games, PQube)
- Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson (Ritual Studios, Playdigious Originals)
- ILA: A Frosty Glide (Magic Rain Studios, First Break Labs)
- Sorry We’re Closed (a la mode Games, Akupara Games)
- Tyrant’s Realm (Team Tyrant, Skystone Games)
Emotional Impact
- Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller)
- and Roger (TearyHand Studio, Kodansha)
- Don’t Get Your Hopes Up (Krish Raghav)
- Henry Halfhead (Lululu Entertainment, popagenda)
- Wanderstop (Ivy Road, Annapurna Interactive)
- Wednesdays (Pierre Corbinais, The Pixel Hunt, exaheva, ARTE France)
Gameplay Design
- Absolum (Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks, Gamirror Games)
- BALL x PIT (Kenny Sun, Devolver Digital)
- Dawnfolk (Darenn Keller, Astra Logical)
- Hades II (Supergiant Games)
- Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
- Keep Driving (YCJY Games)
- Look Outside (Francis Coulombe, Devolver Digital)
- Ooo (NamaTakahashi, tiny cactus studio, Tsuyomi)
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap, PM Studios)
- The King is Watching (Hypnohead, tinyBuild)
Innovation
- Blue Prince (Dogubomb, Raw Fury)
- FREERIDE (Flightyfelon Games, Future Friends Games)
- Gas Station Story (enzi)
- PBJ The Musical (Philipp Stollenmayer)
- Ruffy and the Riverside (Zockrates Laboratories, Phiphen Games)
- Taria & Como (Poppyseed Studio Inc, JuVee Productions)
Latin American Indie Award
- Adventure of Samsara (Ilex Games, Atari)
- despelote (Julian Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena, Panic)
- Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Galla, Fellow Traveller)
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap, PM Studios)
- Taria & Como (Poppyseed Studio Inc, JuVee Productions)
- Tormented Souls II (Dual Effect, PQube)
Music
- Everhood 2 (Cazok, KM_EXP, Stewart Keller, Lewmoth, Chris Nordgren, CatGod, Beat Tape, Dancefloor Is Lava, INFX, Jordi Roca, Foreign Gnomes)
- Herdling (Joel Schoch, Okomotive, Panic)
- Rift of the NecroDancer (Danny Baranowsky, Alex Moukala, Jules Conroy, Josie Brechner, Sam Webster, and Nick Nausbaum, Brace Yourself Games, Tic Toc Games, Klei Publishing)
- SONOKUNI (DON YASA CREW, Kakehashi Games)
- Sword of the Sea (Austin Wintory, Giant Squid)
- Wheel World (Johnny Jewel, JOON, Orion, Messhof, Annapurna Interactive)
Narrative
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age, Fellow Traveller)
- Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder, Hexecutable)
- Promise Mascot Agency (Kaizen Game Works)
- The Drifter (Powerhoof, Dave Lloyd)
- The Roottrees are Dead (Evil Trout Inc.)
- The Seance of Blake Manor (Spooky Doorway, Raw Fury)
Solo Development
- ANTONBLAST (Summitsphere, Joystick Ventures)
- Lushfoil Photography Sim (Matt Newell, Annapurna Interactive)
- Megabonk (vedinad)
- NAIAD (HiWarp)
- Spilled! (Lente)
- Vile: Exhumed (Cara Cadaver, DreadXP)
South African Indie Game Award
- Bru & Boegie Get Da Milk! (MIKDOG)
- Finding Father (Studio Bo)
- Flibbius McDoogle and The Mysterious Flying Machine (Unsigned Double Collective)
- IKEELYA (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)
- Metavoidal (Yellow Lab Games)
- Stick It to the Stickman (Free Lives, Devolver Digital)
Southeast Asian Indie Award
- Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller)
- Artis Impact (Mas, Feuxon)
- Glyphica: Typing Survival (aliasBLACK, Squeaky Wheel)
- SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure (kopiforge, Isolated Games Publishing, IndieArk)
- Urban Jungle (Kylyk Games, Assemble Entertainment)
- Whisper Mountain Outbreak (Toge Productions)
Visual Design
- 30 Birds (RAM RAM Games, Business Goose Studios, ARTE France)
- Artis Impact (Mas, Feuxon)
- Cat Detective Albert Wilde (beyondthosehills)
- Eclipsium (Housefire, CRITICAL REFLEX)
- Mashina (Talha and Jack Co, J. King Spooner, Talha Kaya, Judatone Studios)
- Slime Rancher 2 (Monomi Park)
Women-Led Indie Game Award
- Cabernet (Party for Introverts, Akupara Games)
- Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping (Happy Broccoli Games)
- Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim (Merge Conflict Studio)
- Spilled! (Lente)
- Urban Myth Dissolution Center (Hakaba Bunko, Shueisha Games)
- White Knuckle (Dark Machine Games, DreadXP)
Game of the Year
- Absolum (Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Supamonks)
- and Roger (TearyHand Studio)
- Blue Prince (Dogubomb)
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive)
- Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, and Ken “coda” Snyder)
- Hades II (Supergiant Games)
- Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
- Keep Driving (YCJY Games)
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap)
Fonte: Gematsu
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