Here is a list of awards they just recently won:

Spike TV’s Best Independent Game (video of the acceptance speech can be seen here.)

G4’s Best of 2009: Best Soundtrack

Gamasutra’s 6th Best Game of the Year

Wall Street Journal’s Pick for the Gift Guide

AceGamez nominee for PS3 Game of the Year

Wired’s 10th Best Game of the Year

USA Today’s 4th Best Game of the Year

David Jaffe’s Best Game of the Year

Kellee Santiago was named  on the Ten Most Influential Women of the Decade by Kotaku!

The nominees for the 10th annual Game Developer Choice (GDC) Awards are in and Thatgamecompany’s Flower is one of the leaders coming in with 5 nomination! The GDC Awards are the biggest “peer-based” video game industry awards.

Flower is nominated for:

Best Game Design

Best Visual Art

Best Audio

Innovation

Best Downloadable Game

Congratulations to Thatgamecompany on all the awards and nominations! We’re glad that we had the opportunity to help them create a trailer to help promote this breath taking game. We wanted to created something that really captured the essence of Flower and I think we did that in our “Remember” trailer. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, I have posted the trailer below. It is also on Thatgamecompany’s official site and on PSN.

Our official “Remember” Flower trailer can be seen on the PlayStation Network (PSN) or thatgamecompany’s website. 

Flower is a downloadable game for the PlayStation Network, developed by thatgamecompany. A special thanks to Hybrid Two for creating a great sound design for this piece.

Enjoy.

Thatgamecompany was founded in the spring of 2006 by Jenova Chen and Kelle Santiago, two graduates of the University Southern California Interactive Media MFA program. They wanted to focus on creating small, experimental games with emphasis on innovation and experimentation to appeal to a new, yet untapped audience. They call these games “core games.” Their games are not solely directed at either hardcore or casual gamers, yet it includes the dormant gamers and non-gamers alike.

The small team has a unique view of how games should evoke different emotions and experiences. Rather than a traditional linear story that takes 10 hrs to complete. Their games, as they describe them, “are easier and less time consuming, yet possess emotionally rich and powerful interactive experiences.”

I have had the pleasure to speak with Jenova Chen, the Creative Director at thatgamecompany, about Flower and how he describes the game. “The message of the game is not about man “vs” nature, but instead it’s a balance and harmony between urban and nature.” says Chen. He goes on to mention that Flower is “a video game version of a poem for the harmony between urban and nature. An extension of your living room to the dream-like space of flowers.” Jenova and the team over at thatgamecompany are passionate about their work and it shows. Flower is a piece of art. And if this game doesn’t pursuade the “games aren’t art” naysayers I don’t know what will…

SIDENOTE: We, TheDuoGroup, wanted to help Jenova and thatgamecompany share their vision of Flower with the world. We are currently collaborating with them on a trailer for Flower. So check back soon, the trailer will be released by the end of this week. Oh and check out some amazing screens of Flower below.