Baldur’s Gate 3 and Venba triumph at the 2024 Game Developers Choice and Independent Games Festival Awards.
Baldur’s Gate 3 and Venba triumph at the 2024 Game Developers Choice and Independent Games Festival Awards.
If Geoff Keighley’s tedious exploits at The Game Awards leave you cold, this year’s Game Developers Choice and Independent Games Festival awards were a refreshing counterpoint and a genuine celebration of game development talent.
Although GDC remains frustratingly inaccessible for many, this annual get-together allows a sizeable chunk of the development community to communicate and celebrate in a meaningful and supportive way. At the midway point of each conference, the best games of the previous year are recognised by an audience of industry peers at the GDC and IGF awards. This year, in addition to the celebrations, there was a vociferous acknowledgement of the hardships and suffering that thousands of developers have endured due to layoffs in the past 18 months.
Multiple award winners took their moment on stage to highlight the turmoil experienced across the industry and make the case for change.
