ゲーム業界のプロフェッショナルが選出するゲームアワード「Game Developers Choice Awards（GDC Awards）」の第22回受賞作品、およびインディーゲームを対象とした「Independent Games Festival Awards（IGF Awards）」の第23回受賞作品が発表されました。
今回は昨年10月に発売され話題となり、3ヶ月足らずで100万本セールスを記録したホラーTRPG風味のデッキ構築型ローグライトカードゲーム＆脱出アドベンチャーゲーム『Inscryption』が、「GDC Awards」のGame of the Yearと「IGF Awards」のSeumas McNally Grand Prizeを獲得し初の二冠を達成しています。
各賞のノミネートと受賞作品は次の通りです（青が受賞作品）。
GDC Awards受賞作品リスト
Best Audio
Returnal (Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Unpacking (Witch Beam / Humble) [受賞]
DEATHLOOP (Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal / Square Enix)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
Best Debut
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
Valheim (Iron Gate Studio / Coffee Stain Publishing) [受賞]
Wildermyth (Worldwalker Games / WhisperGames)
The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur / Annapurna Interactive)
Sable (Shedworks / Raw Fury)
Best Design
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts) [受賞]
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine / Xbox Game Studios)
Halo Infinite (343 Industries / Xbox Game Studios)
DEATHLOOP (Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games / Devolver Digital)
Innovation Award
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
Wildermyth (Worldwalker Games / WhisperGames)
Unpacking (Witch Beam / Humble) [受賞]
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games / Devolver Digital)
DEATHLOOP (Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
Best Narrative
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal / Square Enix)
DEATHLOOP (Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine / Xbox Game Studios) [受賞]
Unpacking (Witch Beam / Humble)
Social Impact Award
Before Your Eyes (GoodbyeWorld Games / Skybound Games)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine / Square Enix)
Boyfriend Dungeon (Kitfox Games) [受賞]
チコリー 色とりどりの物語 (The Chicory: A Colorful Tale Team / Finji)
Best Technology
Halo Infinite (343 Industries / Xbox Game Studios)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
ラチェット＆クランク パラレル・トラブル (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) [受賞]
Returnal (Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
HITMAN 3 (IO Interactive)
Best Visual Art
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
DEATHLOOP (Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
ラチェット＆クランク パラレル・トラブル (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) [受賞]
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine / Xbox Game Studios)
Game of the Year
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games / Devolver Digital) [受賞]
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
バイオハザード ヴィレッジ (Capcom)
DEATHLOOP (Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
Ambassador Award
Lifetime Achievement Award
IGF Awards受賞作品リスト
Excellence in Audio（$2,000）
Toem(Something We Made)
Unpacking(Witch Beam)
Jett: The Far Shore(Superbrothers A/V + Pine Scented)
Mini Motorways (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Sable (Shedworks)
Inscryption(Daniel Mullins Games) [受賞]
Excellence in Design（$2,000）
Inscryption(Daniel Mullins Games) [受賞]
Unpacking(Witch Beam)
Overboard!(inkle)
Strange Horticulture (Bad Viking)
Webbed(Sbug Games)
Midnight Protocol (LuGus Studios)
Excellence in Narrative（$2,000）
Last Call (Nina Freeman and Jake Jefferies)
Neurocracy (Playthroughline)
Closed Hands (Passenger)
Overboard!(inkle)
Inscryption(Daniel Mullins Games) [受賞]
Unpacking(Witch Beam)
Excellence in Visual Art（$2,000）
The Eternal Cylinder (ACE Team)
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery (Silver Lining Studio)
Papetura (Petums) [受賞]
Fuzz Dungeon(Jeremy Couillard)
The Wild at Heart(Moonlight Kids)
Jett: The Far Shore(Superbrothers A/V + Pine Scented)
Best Student Game（$2,000）
Cai Cai Balão (Look Up Games)
Abriss - build to destroy (Randwerk Games eG)
Letter Lattice (Ethan Zarov)
SmallLife (Yueqi Wu)
Nainai's Recipe (Fan Fang, Mai Hou)
Live Adventure (Live Adventure Team) [受賞]
Nuovo Award（$2,000）
Memory Card (Lily Zone) [受賞]
Okthryssia and Saturnia's Bureaucratic Adventures (Outlands)
Space Hole 2020 (Sam Atlas)
Tux and Fanny(Ghost Time Games)
Cruelty Squad(Consumer Softproducts)
Sparkles & Gems (Resnijars)
Fuzz Dungeon(Jeremy Couillard)
Cuccchi (Fantastico Studio)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize（$10,000）
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games) [受賞]
Unpacking(Witch Beam)
Loop Hero(Four Quarters)
The Eternal Cylinder(ACE Team)
Cruelty Squad(Consumer Softproducts)
Unsighted(Studio Pixel Punk)
