Neowiz Co., Ltd. announced that it held the ‘BIGS Award’, the awards ceremony for the domestic indie game festival ‘BIGS: Banggusuk Indie Game Show 2022 (hereinafter referred to as BIGS 2022)’ held in August.
The awards ceremony was held at the M Plus Center, a startup hub in Seoul, at 2 p.m. on the 26th. At this BEX Awards, 11 games were selected in a total of 5 categories, including the TOP 3 in the released category (G-Rank Challenge Seoul Awards), the TOP 2 in the unreleased category, as well as the judges’ award, encouragement award, and popularity award, by combining the judges’ evaluations and audience votes. done. The total prize money is 16 million won.
Among the top 3 G-Rank Challenge Seoul Awards presented by the Seoul Business Agency, ▲Growing Seed’s ‘Hyde & Seek’ ▲Regensoft Co., Ltd.’s ‘Ocean’ ▲ABShot’s ‘Ira’ were honored with awards. In addition, Olympus’ ‘Sky Island’ and Soeun Game’s ‘Rally on the way home from work’ won the TOP 2 in the unreleased work category awarded by the Gyeonggi Creative Content Agency.
In addition, the Jury Award category ▲2oclocksoft’s ‘Final Night’ ▲Kassel Games’ ‘Retopia’, Encouragement Award category ▲Gamseong Games’ ‘For Your Well-being’ ▲Hoit Studio’s ‘Sea of Death’, Popularity Award category ▲PepperStones’ ‘Wetory’ ‘ ▲Bfax Co., Ltd.’s ‘Beat the Beat!’ was named on the award list.
Meanwhile, BEX 2022, now in its third year, is a game festival prepared to support indie game companies experiencing difficulties in promotion during the COVID-19 situation. It was co-hosted by Neowiz, Gyeonggi Content Agency, and Seoul Business Agency, and Seoul Metropolitan Government, Gyeonggi Province, Google Play Indie Festival, Twitch, Megazone Cloud Inven, Ruliweb, and IronSource participated as sponsors.
A Neowiz official said, “Through the Indie Game Show in the Corner of the Room, we once again confirmed that there are many talented developers creating fun games. We will carry out various support projects to generate more interest in indie games.” .
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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