Nordic Game Conference has revealed all the rewards of the year 2017 at Malmö on May 18th. The biggest winner is INSIDE, a 2D puzzle platformer adventure video game with the opportunity of getting P4RGaming boosts. It received four awards in total including the Nordic Game of the Year.
Game studios based in Oresund made great performance this year. The PLAYDEAD behind INSIDE comes from Copenhagen. Grapefrukt Game from Malmö took the Small Screen Nordic Game of the Year with its puzzle game which is Twofold Inc. Copenhagen based IO Interactive won the Best Technology by its episodic stealth game Hitman. Winners of the eight categories.
The Nordic Game Awards is organised by the Nordic Game Institute in cooperation with Nordic Game Resources and the Nordic Game event team. It has attracted 2000 game industry professionals to Malmö annually in recent years. The Nordic Game Conference is the leading game conference in Europe and it comes to its fourteenth year then.
The winners of the eight categories are as follows, other finalist you can find at gamasutra.com
Nordic Game of the Year
INSIDE by Playdead
Nordic Game of the Year – Small Screen
Twofold Inc. developed by Grapefrukt Games
Best Art
INSIDE , by Playdead
Best Game Design
INSIDE by Playdead.
Best Technology
Hitman by IO Interactive
Best Audio
INSIDE by Playdead
Best Fun for Everyone
Clapper by Bridgeside Interactive.
Best Debut
GoNNER by Art in Heart.
Special Mention
The jury also gave Owlboy , developed by D-Pad Studio, a special mention for outstanding artistic, audio, technological, and design quality.
