IMMORTALITY News

It's been a fantastic month for the IMMORTALITY team, with the game picking up top honors at the big awards shows of 2023 so far.

Sam Barlow and Natalie Watson collect the BAFTA from Troy Baker

🏆 IGF Award for Excellence in Narrative
🏆 GDCA Award for Innovation
🏆 BAFTA Award for Narrative

This joins previous honors,

🏆 Golden Joystick for Best Performer
🏆 WGGB Best Writing in a Video Game
🏆 Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing
🏆 NYVGCC Best Acting in a Game

Sam Barlow says, “The reception for IMMORTALITY has been incredible and is a testament to the considerable talent and effort from our teams in front and behind the cameras and computers. It has been a pleasure to take Marissa Marcel’s story on the awards circuit she never got to see herself."

The BAFTA Games Awards were held last night - an annual show where a jury of developers throw weighty man-head statues at the crowd, celebrating the best games of any given year. The 2023 BAFTAs celebrated the best of 2022 with a mixed bag of games, awarding big blockbusters alongside popular indies, but the jury agrees with RPS on one front: Vampire Survivors is the best game of 2022. Good BAFTAs.

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Cosmo D's surreal night club RPG Betrayal At Club Low was the big winner at tonight's IGF Awards, picking up both the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and the Nuovo Award. It was one of this year's frontrunners in terms of nominations, winning all but one of the awards it was up for this year. The other nomination was for Excellence In Design, which went to the also excellent The Case Of The Golden Idol, proving that, yep, once again the RPS Advent Calendar is at the forefront of great indie taste-making. Here's the full list of winners from tonight's event.

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Elden Ring has won the game of the year award at the Game Developers Choice Awards, beating outseveral other heavy hitters.

These include God of War Ragnarok, Pentiment, Stray, Tunic and Immortality. The game, hugely popular since its release, recieved a rousing round of applause from the crowded room of game developers in attendance.

Other awards were given out for other excellent games released this year. These include:

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Betrayal at Club Low just won the Seumas Mcnally Grand Prize at the 2023 Independent Games Festival Awards, beating out some brillaint competition in Immortality, Neon White, Not For Broadcast, The Case of the Golden Idol, and Tunic.

It joins a star-studden collection of indie greats like Her Story, Outer Wilds, Minecraft, and Return of the Obra Dinn. The awards show ran just ahead of the Developers Choice Awards which will be annoucning its own selection of winners later today.

It was a killer line up, with some truly brilliant indie games remaining in the honourable mentions section including Citizen Sleep and Terra Nil among others. All the finalists, as well as the honourable mentions, have booths at GDC attendees can play throughout the week.

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