The International Gamers Awards (IGA) recently announced the nominees for their 2015 awards. This will be the 17th year for the awards. There are two categories: multiplayer games and two-player games. Here are the nominees, together with the games designers and publishers:
MULTIPLAYER GAMES
AquaSphere – Stefan Feld (H@ll Games)
The Voyages of Marco Polo – Simone Luciani/Daniele Tascini (Hans im Gluck)
Deus – Sebastien Dujardin (Pearl Games)
Elysium – Matthew Dunstan/Brett Gilbert (Space Cowboys)
Five Tribes – Bruno Cathala (Days of Wonder)
Hyperborea – Andrea Chiarvesio/Pierluca Zizzi (Asterion Press)
Kraftwagen – Matthias Cramer (ADC Blackfire Entertainment)
La Granja – Michael Keller/Andreas Odendahl (Spielworxx)
Orleans – Reiner Stockhausen (dlp Games)
Panamax – Gil d’Orey/Nuno Sentieiro/Paulo Soledade (MESAboardgames)
Quartermaster General – Ian Brody (Griggling Games)
Roll for the Galaxy – Wei-Hwa Huang/Tom Lehmann (Rio Grande)
TWO-PLAYER GAMES
Baseball Highlights 2045 – Mike Fitzgerald (Eagle-Grypon Games)
Fields of Arle – Uwe Rosenberg (Feuerland Spiele)
Patchwork – Uwe Rosenberg (Lookout Games)
Star Realms – Robert Dougherty/Darwin Kastle (White Wizard Games)
Star Wars Armada – James Kniffen/Christian Petersen (Fantasy Flight)
Wir sind das Volk – Richard Sivel/Peer Sylvester (Histogame)
The winners will be announced sometime in late September.
Not being a jury member for the IGA, I’ll make my predictions now…
Deus and Baseball Highlights 2045 FTW
Nice selection! I haven’t played them all, missing The Voyages of Marco Polo, Kraftwagen, and Quartermaster General / Star Wars Armada. My favorites are probably La Granja and Wir sind das Volk!. But I’d predict Roll — it takes an already great game and makes it actually approachable for most people — and Baseball — everyone seems to love it!