Backstage with the winners of the IGF and GDC Awards

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The Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Choice Awards are the highlight of

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. They both honor the best games of the past year in two glamorous, back-to-back ceremonies in downtown San Francisco. This time around,

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took home the IGF's $30,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize, and

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nabbed the coveted Game of the Year prize during the GDC Awards.

Other winners across a range of categories include Undertale, Ori and the Blind Forest, Rocket League and Life is Strange. Nine members of the

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program, which offers summer camps designed to encourage young women to break into game creation, walked away with the ID@Xbox Rising Star award for their project,

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.

We spoke with some of the big winners on-camera directly after they received their awards, and they had plenty to say (and celebrate).

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