{"id":274,"date":"2009-01-08T21:54:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:27:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T23:27:15","slug":"igf-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/2009\/01\/08\/igf-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all still in a state of shock. Osmos has been chosen as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igf.com\/2009finalistswinners.html#finalists\">IGF finalist<\/a> in three categories!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Seumas McNally Grand Prize<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Excellence in Design<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Technical Excellence<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Wow. Needless to say, we&#8217;re excited!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s a real honour to be in the company of some great games and creators. I had already tried and really enjoyed PixelJunk Eden, Dyson, Coil and CarneyVale Showtime. And I&#8217;m looking forward to playing the others as well: the videos for FEIST and Blueberry Garden look wonderful; and I loved <\/span>Amanita Design&#8217;s previous game Samorost, as well as Nifflas&#8217;s modern indie classic Knytt Stories. Looks like there are some other gems in there too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So there it is: amazing news, and stiff competition. Good luck to all the finalists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all still in a state of shock. Osmos has been chosen as an IGF finalist in three categories! Seumas McNally Grand Prize Excellence in Design Technical Excellence Wow. Needless to say, we&#8217;re excited! It&#8217;s a real honour to be in the company of some great games and creators. I had already tried and really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-osmos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5C9wi-4q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}