Keep Driving, a pixel-art administration RPG about occurring a street journey to a music competition, took residence the Grand Prize at the DevGAMM Awards on Friday evening.
The Swedish studio behind the title – YCJY Video games – was awarded a cheque for $20,000 at the competitors, which featured a complete prize pool of $135,000, and which is open to indie builders and small studios. A complete of 15 video games took residence awards on the evening, together with Despelote by Julian Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena (which received Excellence in Narrative), Promise Mascot Company from Kaizen Sport Works (Epic Video games Retailer Indie Highlight), and Rockbeasts by Lichthund (Excellence in Audio).
Glasshouse from FLAT28 Collective received the Builders Alternative award, whereas Distress from Platypus Leisure x Ytopia received the Group Vote. A complete of 63 nominees featured in the present, which have been chosen from a pool of 610 entries.
The awards adopted the two-day DevGAMM Lisbon convention, which this 12 months was attended by 1,122 folks. The convention started with a chat from Chris Charla, common supervisor of portfolio and applications at Xbox, who listed seven frequent errors made by builders when launching a sport. Greater than 60 audio system gave talks and workshops throughout the two days, together with Raphaël Joffres, audio lead for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive, and 80 video games have been demoed as a part of the occasion’s showcase.
The largest proportion of DevGAMM Lisbon attendees have been from Portugal (44%), whereas 7% have been from the UK, 5% have been from Poland, and 5% from Spain. Round 33% of the attendees have been ladies.
This 12 months, DevGAMM Lisbon was preceded by the inaugural Madeira Video games Summit on November 3 and 4, a a lot smaller occasion aimed at video games business leaders. GamesIndustry.biz options editor Lewis Packwood hosted fireplace chats with Ustwo Video games CEO Maria Sayans, Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen, and FunPlus CBO Chris Petrovic, and the summit additionally featured talks and workshops from Henrique Olifiers (CEO of Bossa Studios), Alex Nichiporchik (CEO of TinyBuild), and Tim Browne (co-founder of Vibrant Gambit), amongst others.
Beneath is the full record of winners from final week’s DevGAMM Awards, in alphabetical order:
- Battle Automobiles: Nitro PvP Shooter (TinyBytes) – Sport Changer Award by Aptoide
- Breathedge 2 (RedRuins Softworks) – Most Anticipated Sport
- Crowded – A Crow Citybuilder (Nestwork Video games) – Finest System & Technique Indie Sport by Astra Logical
- DDoD (The Future Leisure Firm) – Finest Indie Sport by TinyBuild
- Despelote (Julian Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena) – Excellence in Narrative
- Drop Duchy (Sleepy Mill Studio) – Excellence in Sport Design
- Glasshouse (FLAT28 Collective) – Builders Alternative
- Hell Maiden (AstralShift) – Finest Sport from Portugal
- Keep Driving (YCJY video games) – Grand Prize
- Distress (Platypus Leisure x Ytopia) – Group Vote
- Promise Mascot Company (Kaizen Sport Works) – Epic Video games Retailer Indie Highlight
- Rockbeasts (Lichthund) – Excellence in Audio
- Stretchmancer (Triangle Wave) – Finest Innovation
- Tukoni: Forest Keepers (Dream Operator) – Excellence in Visible Artwork
- What the Conflict? (Triband) – Finest Cellular Sport
Disclosure: GamesIndustry.biz’s journey and lodging for the occasion was paid for by DevGAMM.