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Hack 'n' Slash leads IndieCade 2014 award winners

IndieCade award winners have been revealed, with Double Fine's Hack 'n' Slash taking home the Grand Jury Award.

Ozzie Mejia

October 14, 2014 10:40 AM

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IndieCade has come and gone and the awards have been handed out across many categories. Hack 'N' Slash takes home the big prize, locking up the Grand Jury Award and beating out a competitive field of nominees.

Other winners include Close Your taking the Developer Choice Award. This PC offering from Goodbye World Games puts players into the consciousness of a character that is struggling with memory loss and losing memories by the moment. Sunder took home the Audience Choice Award. This unique entry from Digipen Team Mocha is a co-op platformer with each player wearing color-filtering glasses, making each person see a different world and forcing them to work together to solve puzzles. Finally, the Oculus Rift entry Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes took home the Media Choice Award. Press members in attendance were dazzled by the co-op nature of the game, which required one person to diffuse a bomb from inside the Rift and a partner from the outside world to read off the instructions.

The full list of winners include:

• The Grand Jury Award
  Hack 'N' Slash [PC, Mac, Linux]
  Double Fine Productions
• The Visual Design Award
  Framed [iOS, PC, Mac]
  Loveshack
• The Audio Design Award
  FRACT OSC [PC, Mac]
  Phosfiend Systems
• The Game Design Award
  Grow: The Organic Building Game
  CricKeT Games
• The Story/World Design Award
  Ice-bound [iPad & printed book]
  Down to the Wire
• The Technology Award
  Choice Chamber [PC, Mac]
  Studio Bean
• The Impact Award
  Use of Force [Virtual Reality Installation]
  Emblematic Group
• The Interaction Award
  Soulfill [iOS]
  Little Wins LLC
• The Special Recognition Award
  N++ [PlayStation 4]
  Metanet Software Inc.
• The Audience Choice Award
  Sunder [PlayStation 4]
  Digipen Team Mocha
• The Developer Choice Award
  Close Your [PC]
  Goodbye World Games
• The Media Choice Award
  Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes [PC]
  Keep Talking Team

Awards, with the exception of the Audience, Media, and Developer Choice awards, were handed out during an awards ceremony last Thursday evening. The ceremony also honored Harmonix co-founder and CCO Alex Rigopulos with the IndieCade 2014 Trailblazer Award for his years of work.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?