{"id":62736,"date":"2014-03-23T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62736"},"modified":"2014-03-23T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T10:32:11","slug":"papers-please-dominates-independent-games-festival-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62736-papers-please-dominates-independent-games-festival-awards","title":{"rendered":"Papers, Please dominates Independent Games Festival awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Papers, Please &#8211; the game where players take the role\u00a0of an immigration inspector in the communist state of Arstotzka &#8211; was the emphatic winner at the 2014 IGF awards, taking home 3 out of a total 8 awards on offer.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows and Mac game, developed by Lucas Pope, won the awards for excellence in design, excellence in narrative, and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving his awards Pope said:&#8221;You&#8217;re looking at the peak of my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The IGF awards are a good indicator of the top indie games you will be playing in the near future, and past winners include Minecraft and South African-born game <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/10447-desktop-dungeons-wins-design-award-at-igf.html\">Desktop Dungeons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full list of winners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Narrative, Excellence in Design\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Papers, Please<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Excellence in Visual Arts &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Gorogoa<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Excellence in Audio &#8211;\u00a0<strong>DEVICE 6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nuovo Award &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Luxuria Superbia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Student Game &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Risk of Rain<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Audience Award &#8211;\u00a0<strong>The Stanley Parable<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_QP5X6fcukM?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/3\/19\/5528068\/papers-please-16th-annual-independent-games-festival\" target=\"_blank\">Polygon<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62686-do-you-finish-your-games-only-1-in-3-players-do.html\">Do you finish your games? Only 1 in 3 players do<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/62665-epic-and-expensive-gaming-pcs-built-in-sa.html\">Epic (and expensive) gaming PCs built in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/62663-xbox-one-south-african-launch-date-confirmed.html\">Xbox One South African launch window confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immigration officer role player takes three awards on the night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":62738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,11925,12174,12175,12160],"class_list":["post-62736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-igf-2014","tag-igf-awards","tag-lucas-pope","tag-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}