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Australian Game Developer Awards 2021 finalists announced

Unpacking and The Artful Escape clean up.

Australian Game Developer Awards 2021 finalists were today announced by the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA).

Locally-made titles Unpacking (Brisbane’s Witch Beam) and The Artful Escape (Melbourne’s Beethoven & Dinosaur) have cleaned up, walking away with four and three nominations, respectively. Video World, a title developed by Monster Mansion’s Jacob Leaney, has also walked with a nomination in the “Excellence in Emerging Games” category.

Winners will be named a ceremony to take place live on Twitch from 7.00 pm AEDT on 6 October.

You can check out all the finalists below.

Excellence in Art

  • The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)
  • art of rally (Funselektor)
  • Unpacking (Witch Beam)

Excellence in Gameplay

  • Unpacking (Witch Beam)
  • Ring of Pain (Twice Different)
  • WEBBED (Sbug Games)

Excellence in Narrative

  • TOPOGRAPHY (Cecile Richard)
  • The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller)
  • Choices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out (Tin Man Games, Screwtape Studios)

Excellence in Audio

  • WEBBED (Sbug Games)
  • TRIOS (Samurai Punk)
  • The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)

Game of the Year

  • WEBBED (Sbug Games)
  • The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)
  • Unpacking (Witch Beam)

Excellence in Accessibility

  • Submerged: Hidden Depths (Uppercut Games)
  • Unpacking (Witch Beam)
  • Eastern Market Murder (True Crime Games)

Excellence in Mobile Games

  • The Oregon Trail (Gameloft Brisbane)
  • Eastern Market Murder (True Crime Games)
  • Botworld Adventure (Featherweight Games)

Excellence in Serious Games

  • Sharmila (World Food Programme and Chaos Theory Games)
  • Streets of My Town (Institute of Games)
  • TRIOS (Samurai Punk)

Excellence in Ongoing Games

  • Pico Tanks (Panda Arcade)
  • Crossy Road Castle (Hipster Whale)
  • The Sims FreePlay (The Firemonkeys)

Excellence in Emerging Games

  • Pebble Witch (Fuzzy Ghost)
  • Project Wingman (Sector D2)
  • Video World (Things for Humans)

Additional awards — Adam Lancman, Rising Star, Studio of the Year, and Raising the Bar — will be announced on the night.

The Australian Game Developer Awards 2021 is part of Melbourne International Games Week 2021, taking place over 2-10 October. The week includes the likes of the three-day Games 4 ChangePAX AUS Online, a free two-day conference on audio design and the Melbourne Queer Games Festival 2021.


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