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IGF: Desktop Dungeons wins Excellence in Design
We did it! At this year’s Independent Games Festival awards (against all odds, expectations and core laws of existence) we managed to snag an award for Excellence in Design.
From left to right: Beardy McViking, Hatty “Fedora” Hat and Scary Drunkard. Also pictured: an award
Yeah, this all happened on Wednesday, but we’ve really really only just been able to spend enough quality time with our laptops to make this post right now (touring and pressing and marketing and celebrating takes its toll, yo).
We’d really like to thank the Desktop Dungeons community for playing Desktop Dungeons, liking Desktop Dungeons, occasionally hating Desktop Dungeons, writing about Desktop Dungeons and supporting a Desktop Dungeons victory despite the fact that Minecraft was almost certainly supposed to clean out all of the awards (which it very nearly did, by gum).
We’d also like to thank the other IGF nominees for providing us with endless fun and addiction whenever it looked like we were in danger of doing something useful instead. A special mention goes to Super Crate Box, which is possibly my favourite game of the festival and made the hour-long commute to San Francisco every day that much more bearable.
If y’all wanna see us embarrass ourselves on video, you can take a look at the awards ceremony video over at Gamespot — the Design nominations start at 14:00, followed by our acceptance babble.
March 7th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Congratulations!
and the goggles were cool.
March 7th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
You guys deserved it. I loved what you’ve done so far and hope to one day beat that goat. Good luck with the rest of the development!
March 8th, 2011 at 12:20 am
Best speech ever LOL
March 8th, 2011 at 6:13 am
Congrats guys.
March 8th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Congrats guys! Awesome awesome awesome… and love the speech! 🙂
March 9th, 2011 at 7:39 am
Hello! Jen from Supergiant Games here 🙂 It was great meeting you guys (Rodain and Marc I believe?) at GDC! Congratulations on the well deserved award – I only wish I had gotten the opportunity to play a bit, but you had so many fans :). I FELL ILL after the first day, and it bothered me greatly that I didn’t realize until AFTER leaving GDC, that your QCF did, indeed stand for Quarter Circle Forward and not something less nerdy! How AMAZING! ANYWAY, random fact is random – Congrats once more and looking forward to playing once this download is finished ;D.
March 10th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
I called this from day one. You deserve it, Rodain. Keep up the great work.