DevGAMM Awards Nominees Revealed

By November 3, 2017News
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Nominees for DevGAMM Awards have been announced. There were over 100 projects submitted for the competition. The names of the winners in each of the 10 nominations will be revealed on November 17 during the DevGAMM Awards ceremony in Minsk. The ceremony will streamed online at the conference Youtube channel.

The award ceremony will be hosted by the invited celebrity, whose name is still a secret.

Twenty five games were nominated across all categories, including Shadow Fight 3, Super Rude Bear Resurrection, Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf and Freaky Awesome. Leading the way in terms of total nominations were Distrust and Hyperforma, which are competing for Grand Prize.

Who will receive $ 30,000?

Everyone wants to know who is going to win in Best Indie Game category. It is the nomination with the $ 50,000 fund for supporting indie developers established by tinyBuild, Kefir and Arktos Entertainment.

Each of the nominees is already guaranteed to receive $ 5,000. But the winner will get the $30,000 prize.

The projects were selected during two weeks by 90 game industry experts, among which representatives of Zeptolab, CD Projekt Red, Ubisoft, 1C, tinyBuild, FDG Entertainment, Social Quantum, G5 Appodeal, Epic Games, King, Yodo1, Creative Mobile, Bitbox, IndieMEGABOOTH and many others.

The nominees for the Game Lynch Award will be announced separately. To see all games from the list, check DevGAMM website.

Grand Prize

  • Ash of Gods: Redemption (AurumDust)
  • Distrust (Cheerdealers)
  • Hyperforma (Nord Unit)
  • Shadow Fight 3 (Nekki)
  • Super Rude Bear Resurrection (Alex Rose Games)

Excellence in Visual Art

  • Ash of Gods: Redemption (AurumDust)
  • Holy Shift! (Pure Evil Studio)
  • Hyperforma (Nord Unit)
  • Molecats (Vidroid)
  • Tanks a lot! (Highcore Labs LLC)

Excellence in Game Design

  • Distrust (Cheerdealers)
  • Do Not Feed the Monkeys (Fictiorama Studios)
  • G30 (Ivan Kovalov)
  • Hyperforma (Nord Unit)
  • Overloop (The Shpufa)

Excellence in Narrative

  • Do Not Feed the Monkeys (Fictiorama Studios)
  • G30 (Ivan Kovalov)
  • Overloop (The Shpufa)
  • Tardy (One Wing Cicada)
  • The Executioner (Lesser evil games)

Excellence in Audio

  • Ash of Gods: Redemption (AurumDust)
  • Distrust (Cheerdealers)
  • G30 (Ivan Kovalov)
  • Molecats (Vidroid)
  • Super Rude Bear Resurrection (Alex Rose Games)

Best Indie Game

  • Digital Feuds (Oroboro games)
  • Freaky Awesome (Mandragora)
  • Inmost (Hidden Layer Games)
  • Hyperforma (Nord Unit)
  • Overloop (The Shpufa)

Best Desktop Game

  • 9 Monkeys of Shaolin (Sobaka Studio)
  • Ash of Gods: Redemption (AurumDust)
  • Distrust (Cheerdealers)
  • Freaky Awesome (Mandragora)
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf (HeroCraft)

Best Mobile Game

  • Bring me Cakes (Potato Jam)
  • G30 (Ivan Kovalov)
  • Hyperforma (Nord Unit)
  • One person story (Lampogolovii)
  • Shadow Fight 3 (Nekki)

Best VR Game

  • Castle Wars VR (Arrible)
  • Protocol (Fair Games Studio)
  • SST (4 I Lab)
  • The Tavern of Magic (Gamenamics)
  • Witching Tower (Daily Magic Inc)

The nominees for the Game Lynch Award will be announced separately. To see all games from the list, check DevGAMM website.