The winner of the Best Independent Game developer award is Sayonara Wild Hearts
Independent developer games are distinguished from high-budget games (AAA) freely for development, for example the production of strange ideas, simple graphics, innovative gameplay, all of which are difficult for the publisher to trust that the game will love people or that it will spread. Here comes the challenge in proving developers that their games may carry creative content that sometimes outperforms larger games.
For this year, I have nominated the following games as the best standalone developer game:
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Baba Is You
Wattam
Untitled Goose Game
Baba Is You
The independent Finnish developer Hempuli has proven after the release of his second game independently that simple puzzle games still have a lot to offer, and that the design of the games does not depend on fixed laws only to be a solid puzzle plot, but created a large space in the design style to change the options and laws so that you can solve the puzzles and change The course of the stage is mostly surprising.
Wattam
From director Katamari and Noby Noby Boy, Mr. Keita Takahashi and developer Funomena bring us a similar game, Wattam, to deviate from many current games. We have always wanted to play this generation that is strange, to give you another perspective on the games and how the developer can be creative and out of the ordinary. Being a publisher of Annapurna Interactive is one of the publishers who support premium independent developer games like What Remains of Edith Finch and Outer Wilds, I see they are choosing to publish Wattam.
Untitled Goose Game
Australian House has succeeded in introducing the idea of a goose with a very fun template under the framework of sneaking and solving puzzles. Which, despite its simplicity, attracted us both large and small, professional and amateur, but rather it became part of the Memes culture that we will not forget from 2019.
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a game that we didn't know much about before its descent, although its Swedish developer Simogo is known for premium mobile games like Year Walk and Device 6, but soon attracted us with its loud colors, great music, and fast and enthusiastic play, a girl driving a motorcycle, and sometimes skiing using a skateboard , And another run to the end of the stage, and once fly in the stage. Control is simple, movement is automatic, and it uses the stick and one button to avoid obstacles, jump and collect hearts, which makes it a suitable game whether you play it on mobile or on a home device, especially with it being a short but life-like experience. A game that is not at all modest in its graphics, music, and imagination, so I chose it as the best game for an independent developer in 2019.
What is the best standalone developer game 2019 for you?