Author: Joel Couture

The IGF (Independent Games Festival) aims to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize independent game developers advancing the medium. This year, Game Developer sat down with the finalists for the IGF’s Nuovo and Grand Prize nominees ahead of GDC to explore the themes, design decisions, and tools behind each entry. Game Developer and GDC are sibling organizations under Informa.UFO 50, nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at this year’s IGF awards, is a collection of fifty games across several genres created by multiple different developers. It’s an exploration of the 8-bit visual style that draws from modern…