This year’s awards ceremony took place yesterday German computer game prize via live stream and as an on-site event in Munich. Uke bosses and Catherine Bauerfeind led through the evening, whereby the latter could only be connected digitally due to a corona infection. Among the laudators were actresses Faye MontanaAuthor Markus Heitz and Michael WaiterParliamentary State Secretary to the Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Under the current federal government, the games department has moved from the Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure to the Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection).
The space shooter won the prize in the category Best German Game Chorus – Rise as One (in the test, grade 8.5) from Deep Silver Fishlabs. In most categories (three in total) was the indie title OMNO by Studio Inkyfox, which ultimately received the award for Best Family Game. Received the audience award in the Player of the Year category Maximilian Knabe a.k.a handofblood.
Below is an overview of all nominees, winners and any prize money. The winners are each in bold:
Best German Game
- chorus (Deep Silver FISHLABS / Koch Media) – 100,000 euros
- Endzone – A World Apart (Gentlymad Studios / Assemble Entertainment) – €30,000
- Lacuna (DigiTales Interactive / Assemble Entertainment) – €30,000
Best Family Game
- Cat Q – A Quantum Adventure (kamibox)
- OMNO (Studio Inkyfox) – 40,000 euros
- Witchtastic (Flemming Visual Effects / Application Systems Heidelberg Software)
Young Talent Award – Best Debut
- A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube / Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft) – 25,000 euros
- Cleo – a pirate’s tale (Greycap Audiovisual Mediadesign) – 25,000 euros
- White Shadows (Monocle / Headup Games) – 60,000 euros
Young Talent Award – Best Prototype
- Delightfyl (Felicitas Brämer) – 25,000 euros
- Makis Adventure (Mateo Covic, Eric Hartmann / Rhein-Waal University) – 25,000 euros
- Skuggor (Tobias Borns, Sebastian Krause, Julia Wolf / Trier University) – 25,000 euros
- Wiblu (Peter Bartonik, Christian Walter, Ramona Raabe) – 50,000 euros
- Words (Ahmet Zahit Dönmez / TH Köln – Cologne Game Lab) – 25,000 euros
Best innovation and technology
- The Fall – Race Against Time (MixUp)
- VR Skaters (DEFICIT Games)
- warp drive (Holocafe) – 40,000 euros
Best game world and aesthetics
- A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube / Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft) – 40,000 euros
- ITORAH (Grimbart Tales / Assemble Entertainment)
- OMNO (Studio Inkyfox)
Best game design
- Get Together: A Coop Adventure (Studio Sterneck)
- Kraken Academy!! (Happy Broccoli Games / Fellow Traveller) – €40,000
- OMNO (Studio Inkyfox)
Best Serious Game
- EZRA (Landesverband Kinder- und Jugendfilm Berlin eV) – 40,000 euros
- NEPO Missions (Gentle Troll Entertainment / Fraunhofer Institute IAIS)
- Songs of Cultures – (A.MUSE – Interactive Design Studio)
Best Mobile Game
- Albion Online (Sandbox Interactive) – 40,000 euros
- Homeworld Online (Stratosphere Games / Gearbox Publishing)
- Settle and Battle (Attic Games Studio)
Best Expert Game
- ELEX 2 (Piranha Bytes / THQ Nordic)
- Imagine Earth (Serious Brothers) – 40,000 euros
- Cubicactorium (Neomateria Games)
Best Live Game
- Anno 1800 (Ubisoft Mainz / Ubisoft)
- Hunt: Showdown (Crytek / Koch Media) – 40,000 euros
- Tropico 6 (Kalypso Media Group / Kalypso Media Group)
Best International Game (undoted)
- Elden ring (From Software / Bandai Namco Entertainment Germany)
- Horizon Forbidden West (SIE Guerrilla / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
Best International Multiplayer Game (undated)
- Age of Empires IV (Relic Entertainment / Microsoft Germany)
- Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Microsoft Germany)
- It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts)
Player of the Year (undoted)
- Melanie Eilert (aka melly_maeh)
- Maximilian Knabe (aka HandOfBlood)
- Matthias Remmert (aka Bone)
- Pia Scholz (aka Shurjoka)
- Kuro Takhasomi (aka KuroKy)
studio of the year
- CipSoft (Regensburg) – 50,000 euros
- Paint Bucket Games (Berlin)
- Wooga (Berlin)
Special Jury Prize
- Games Jobs Germany – 10,000 euros
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