QCF Design, an independent game developer based in Cape Town, South Africa, was recently nominated for awards in two categories for this year’s Independent Games Festival Awards taking place during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week.

What earned the three-person team these two nods? A ‘little’ game by the name of Desktop Dungeons, a rapid, short-session Roguelike dungeon-crawler that became something of an overnight sensation in indie game circles and indie developer circles alike.

The folks at PopCap Games also liked it a whole bunch.

What awards are QCF Design up for during the IGF Awards ceremony? None other than the ultra (ultra) prestigious Seumus McNally Grand Prize, and another highly sought after piece of recognition, the ‘Excellence in Design’ award.

If you’re an indie developer, these are the awards that garner tremendous respect and have, in the past, meant incredible opportunities for their recipients.

We here at El33tonline would first of all like to wish QCF Design everything of the best over the course of this week as they get to hang out with other like-minded indie developers, soak up the atmosphere of the Game Developers Conference, and hopefully find time to catch a few conference sessions in-between demonstrating Desktop Dungeons at the IGF Pavilion.

Second, we would like to encourage all of you to visit QCF Design’s site, bomb them with praise, download the freeware version of Desktop Dungeons (if you haven’t already), and hit up members of the QCF team on Twitter with a couple encouraging words:

• Danny “dislekcia” Day
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• Rodain “Nandrew” Joubert
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• Marc “Aequitas” Luck
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The Independent Games Festival Awards ceremony takes place on March 2nd, from 18:30 to 20:30 San Francisco time (March 3rd in South Africa, from 04:30 to 06:30).

Hold thumbs for QCF Design!