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Monday, Mar 24, 2025
The NYU Game Center is very proud to congratulate the following alumni for their award wins at the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards which took place on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025:
EXCELLENCE IN AUDIO
Julián Cordero (BFA ’19) for despelote
WINGS AWARD
NUOVO AWARD
SEUMAS MCNALLY GRAND PRIZE
Jenny Jiao Hsia (BFA ’16) and AP Thomson (MFA ’15) for Consume Me
The Independent Games Festival is the premiere global awards show recognizing the best and brightest that the medium of games has to offer. We are so proud of our students, the quality of their work, and for our program to have been recognized on this stage in the forefront of the industry.
Additional congratulations are due to the following current students and alumni who were nominated for this year’s awards:
NUOVO AWARD NOMINEE
mut / moochi (MFA ’22) for tapeçaria (tapestry)
BEST STUDENT GAME NOMINEE
Biagi Calicchia, Hanwen Xu, Hatim Benhsain, Isabelle Smith, and Nichole Shinn (MFA ’25) (Games for my Computer) for Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation
For the full list of winners at this year’s IGF Awards, check out this link here on the official IGF website.

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