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Visai Games' Venba leads finalists for the 2024 IGF Awards
The 2024 Independent Games Festival Awards finalists have been revealed—with a story of love, loss, family, and food at the forefront.
The 2024 Independent Games Festival Awards finalists have been revealed—with a story of love, loss, family, and food at the forefront.
Organizers of the 2024 Game Developers Conference are happy to unveil this year's finalists and honorable mentions for the 26th annual IGF Awards, part of the longest-running festival, summit, and showcase celebrating independent games and their creators.
Visai Games' Venba leads with nominations in four categories: Excellence in Audio, Excellence in Narrative, Excellence in Visual Art and for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. Venba is a narrative cooking game in which players experience life as an Indian mom who has immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1980s and weaves together conversations and food to tell her family’s stories of love, loss and more.
For those interested in learning more about the development of Venba, creative director Abhi Swami will be giving a postmortem on Venba at GDC 2024, and composer/sound designer Neha Patel will be speaking about the game's award-nominated sound design.
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Venba is followed by five other finalist titles who share the distinction of having three nominations apiece: 1000xRESIST by Fellow Traveller, A Highland Song by Inkle, Anthology of the Killer by Thecatamites, COCOON by Annapurna Interactive (which has a talk featured at GDC 2024), and Mediterranea Inferno