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Indie of the Year

Back for an 9th time, welcome to the 2018 Indie of the Year Awards, a celebration of the years finest indie games chosen by you and us. For the next 4 weeks it is up to you to vote for your favorite indie games so that they may make the top 100 which will be announced on the 11th of December.

Last year saw popular MMO Foxhole take the throne for the players choice Indie of the Year, followed by the huge run and gun hit Cuphead with the immersive team-oriented shooter Day of Infamy to round out the top 3. If you want to see the full players choice and editor's choice from 2017, look no further.

2018 has been a huge year for indie games, from the abundance of awesome titles to hit our Steam libraries, to the inability to avoid the phrase 'Battle Royale' no matter where you looked. Whilst Battle Royale games often begin with 100 players, the Indie of the Year awards will begin with thousands - to ensure your favourite indie's make it into the coveted top 100 you need to do your duty and smash that vote button harder than ever. Help hard working game developers feel the love and soon we will announce the 2018 Chicken Dinner Winner Indie of the Year. Good luck everyone!

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Report RSS Behind the Design of the 2018 Award Logos

Find out how the 2018 Mod of the Year and Indie of the Year logos were made.

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Back in September this year, the DBolical team sought out a member of the community to bring their own style to the creation of the Mod of the Year / Indie of the Year award logos. These designs are important because they will be forever linked to the mods and indie games that win big in the Players Choice Awards, so in addition to representing the sites and their brands, it needs to stand out with both simplicitly and boldness. Find out who was ultimately chosen to design these logos, and get an insight into their creation process, below!

Presenting Hugo, the 2018 logo making competition winner!


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: It means a huge amount to us that we can get creators from the community to participate and create the badge that many games and mods will proudly wear at the end of the awards.

Hugo Attal: And thank you for accepting my logos for the 2018 awards, it means a lot to me as well and I'm very proud to contribute to this awesome community!

What inspired you to design the 2018 award logos?

As some may have realised, the retro fantasized 80s trend is gaining more and more visibility. In films, in TV shows, in music, in videogames. So I decided to do something retro-ish, but a bit futuristic too. I didn't want to make some kind of pixelated stuff to make it look retro: it's pretty cool, but over-used in my opinion.

My plan was to make a sort of futuristic looking console cartridge, I took my inspiration from old console cartridge and modern printer cartridge. I wanted a bit of "neon" effect but very sharpy to make it look futuristic, and old 70s-like fonts. I also added a 7-segment display font for the year.

Here's the process for the creation. First thing first, I'm anything but a professional designer. So I didn't drew any sketch (I'm really bad at it), I just had an idea of what I wanted. So I jumped on Illustrator and started! Nothing is perfect on the first glimps, but I adjust stuff, have new ideas, change things, until it looks cool! (Yeah, a totally bulletproof method).


Step 1 - So, I created the basic shape of the cartridge.


step 01


Step 2 - Then I added a different pattern for IndieDB and ModDB.




Step 3 - I created the 3 different fonts for the logo.





Step 4 - I merge all of that.




Step 5 - I added a bit of color (v1).


step 05


Step 6 - I updated the color so that everything is easily readable.


step 06


For how many years have you voted, what do you like about the awards? What brought you to our community, what games and mods are you working on?

To be fair, I knew IndieDB and the awards for quite a few time, it's a pretty recognized award. But it's the first year I actually really follow the community and vote for the games, because I'm really new to indie dev.

I'm currently working on my first video game all alone (code, design, music...) and IndieDB was the place to go for a new indie dev like me. You can check out my game, Starxium 20XX, on IndieDB or Facebook.

Do you have any mockups or WIPs we can show?

Of course! Here's a really quick video to present the game:


If you liked the award logos, here are the manufacturer logos for my game:

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I'm currently working on the Kickstarter for Starxium 20XX, if you want to be kept posted on, drop your mail on the website ;)

What games and/or mods will you be voting for this year?

I wont list all of them, but the three main games I'll vote for are:

  • Equilinox - a game I followed for quite a long time on youtube which looks very relaxing.
  • They Are Billions - I really liked the steampunk universe and the concept.
  • Mothergunship - that I just discovered scrolling the games on IndieDB and that look really cool. (and of course mine, because it's mine :P !)

Actually, there's a loooooot of really cool projects/games/mods on IndieDB and ModDB. I don't know each one of them, but creators/designers/coders/modders/etc you're doing an awesome job and it's super cool to see so much different gameplays, designs, original ideas. Keep up the good work everyone :D

You can found me at @hugoattal.

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ContecGames
ContecGames

It's a really cool design! :)

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SpoonmanGames
SpoonmanGames

Really liking the retrofuturistic look of the logo and of Starxium 20XX, the game looks awesome, the camera shots on the trailer are just perfect.

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Herobrine20XX
Herobrine20XX

Thank you very much, I really appreciate :D !

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Maggintosh
Maggintosh

Yeah, really nice logo design. Well made. Totally motivated me to vote for my favorite mods ;)

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INtense! Staff
INtense!

Thanks Herobrine20XX for your hard work creating these logos. They are absolutely incredible and will be proudly displayed by the 2018 winners.

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Herobrine20XX
Herobrine20XX

My pleasure, I'm really happy that people like them ! I'm impatient to see the 2018 winners display them.

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Thanoshld
Thanoshld

One of the best we have seen the latest years :) . Well done!

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