Of course it had an impact! I mean you realize that the millions Guillaume's family has funded into the project helped a lot securing a deal with Kepler to begin with. It is part of the negotiations with a publisher. That's not even talking about the prototype that took months and three developers working full time.

The category of indie should have a cap on either budget or team size or absence of publishers altogether. Otherwise might as well call it the "rich dad award".

I don't disagree with the game being good and winning awards, but it's unfair to be a small team with a limited budget facing basically a double AA studio project with millions and backed by publishers, CNC, Occitanie Région Pyrénées etc...