Beat Sneak Bandit steals Best Mobile Game award at the Independent Games Festival 2012

The games have been played, the votes have been tallied, and it's now official: Beat Sneak Bandit has been named Best Mobile Game at the Independent Games Festival 2012.

An annual celebration of all things free-spirited and underfunded, this event - held as part of the Game Developers Conference - shines a spotlight on smaller indie projects usually overshadowed by their big-budget brethren.

Alongside the usual batch of console and PC nominees this year were some of the smartest, prettiest, and oddest smartphone titles known to man. And Pocket Gamer.

Thought-provoking iOS horticultural puzzler Waking Mars found its way onto the shortlist for Best Mobile Game, while quirky resource-management title Pug Loves Beats was selected as a finalist in the Excellence in Audio category.

In the end, though, Simogo's beautiful rhythm-centric stealth-puzzler Beat Sneak Bandit proved to be the smartphone game that made the biggest impression on the judges, sneaking past its peers to steal the Best Mobile Game prize of $3,000.

You can have a look at the full list of IGF winners and finalists by clicking on this link.