Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg nominated for IGF Award
The Independent Games Festival has revealed its list of official nominees for the 2023 IGF Awards and among some of 2022’s biggest indie titles, like Betrayal at Club Low and Tunic, was Australian LGBTQ+ game Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg from the team at Fuzzy Ghost. The game is up for the IGF’s Nuovo Award, which provides a $2,000 prize to the winning game.
In Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg, players follow a middle-aged queer man as he explores a strange island looking for items to refurnish his empty house. The man also has a memory that he can’t quite grasp, but hopes he’ll be able to get ahold of by collecting the shiny debris that the tide washes up.
The game was developed by Australian indie developers Fuzzy Ghost, who are based in Sydney. They received an Australian Game Developer Award for Excellence in Emerging Games in 2022 for Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg.
The full list of 2023 IGF Awards nominees are as follows:
- Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios)
- Tunic (Tunic Team)
- The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games)
- Immortality (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
- Neon White (Angel Matrix)
- Not For Broadcast (NotGames)
- Gevaudan (Nicolas Bernard)
- Mind Diver (Indoor Sunglasses)
- Presenter Slides (Mathias Schifter & Brin Žvan)
- Shutter (ARTFX 2022)
- Skala (Gustav Almström)
- Slider (randomerz)
- Dome Keeper (Bippinbits)
- Paradise Marsh (LazyEti)
- South of the Circle (State of Play)
- The Forest Quartet (Mads & Friends)
- Tunic (Tunic Team)
- We are OFK (Team OFK)
- Against the Storm (Eremite Games)
- Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios)
- Mr. Sun’s Hatbox (Kenny Sun)
- Neon White (Angel Matrix)
- Stacklands (Sokpop Collective)
- The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games)
- Butterfly Soup 2 (Brianna Lei)
- Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age)
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games)
- Immortality (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
- Norco (Geography of Robots)
- South of the Circle (State of Play)
- Afterglitch (Vladimir Kudelka)
- How Deep Is the Dark Water? (Rhett Tsai)
- Potionomics (Voracious Games)
- RPG Time: The Legend of Wright (DeskWorks Inc.)
- To Hell With the Ugly (La Poule Noire, ARTE France)
- Tunic (Tunic Team)
- Afterglitch (Vladimir Kudelka)
- An Outcry (Quinn K.)
- Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios)
- He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me (Taylor McCue)
- Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg (Fuzzy Ghost)
- Sylvie Lime (LoveGame)
- Time Bandit (Joel Jordon)
- Titanic II: Orchestra for Dying At Sea (Flan Falacci)
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