Darwinia scoops a record four IGF nominations

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Introversion announced its attendance at the forthcoming Independent Games Festival which takes place during GDC in March 2006. GDC, held in San Jose, is the single largest game development gathering in the world.Their Darwinia, has been nominated for a total of 4 separate awards: The Seamus McNally Grand Prize of $20, 000 ? for Best Independent Game,Innovation in Game Design, Technical Excellence, Innovation in Visual Art.

Following a record total of 118 entries, competition is especially fierce, but the forty IGF judges chosen from mainstream and indie game creation and journalism circles, have singled out their pick of the outstanding indie titles with Darwinia featuring heavily. This is the first time a British developer has picked up so many nominations at the US dominated IGF.

Introversion chose to publish Darwinia through their own website and manufactured a small number of units that were distributed into UK retail. But true to form, the entrepreneurs behind the game recently signed a deal with Valve's Steam system for online sales and distribution of the game worldwide. With Introversion's unique innovation and Valve's powerful marketing and distribution expertise, the delivery of Darwinia over Steam has proven to be a great commercial success.

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