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award↗︎ Award Show Award Winners History Honorable Mentions Jury Nominees Festival↗︎ A MAZE. Bazaar Artists How To Festival Open Screens Partners Program Team Tickets A MAZE. Space ↗︎ stream↗︎ news↗︎ shop↗︎ Tickets A MAZE. / BERLIN 2020 TOTAL DIGITAL 9TH INTERNATIONAL GAMES AND PLAYFUL MEDIA FESTIVAL A MAZE. YouTube Channel Sign up for Newsletter! ⟶Thank you for joining A MAZE. / Berlin 2020 - Total Digital. Stay Safe! A MAZE. / Berlin 2021 - Hyper Hybrid - 10th International Games and Playful Media Festival. The jubilee festival edition will take place - Online - Virtual - Digital - Human and Onsite. Save the dates: July 21-24, 2021 Visit the A MAZE. Shop Search A MAZE. / Berlin is an International Festival focusing on arthouse games and playful media . For the day experience A MAZE. / Berlin invites globally spread and diverse experimental game and VR creators, digital artists, musicians and other playful creatives from around different countries who share in an inspiring 3 days programme of talks and workshops , idea market places and knowledge bazaar the art of video games making. The entire festival will take place online - virtual - digital - human The most revolutionary and amazing digital experience in the year 2020. NOMINEES Since 2012 A MAZE. awards The Most Amazing Game. The winner is selected by an interdisciplinary, international and 100% independent jury. We extended and changed awards in the many years since, our categories are now: Most Amazing Award”, Human Human Machine Award”, Long Feature Award”, Digital Moment Award”, Explorer Award” and Audience Award”. MOST AMAZING AWARD The grand prize of the A MAZE. awards goes to the most relevant, forward-thinking interactive and playful content. We premiere the best work overall - in terms of art, innovation, music, story and interaction. the prize is dedicated to the masterpiece of the award selection that shows us a path we never walked before. Body Open Source M. Nawrot, J. Wójtowicz & K. Brych ?? PC, vive Nightmare Temptation Academy Lena NW & Costcodreamgurl ?? Mac, PC The Under Presents Tender Claws ?? Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift. Too Many Cooks Finifugu Games Ltd. ?? iPhone, Android Phone, Android Tablet, iPad Utopias: Navigating without coordinates AAA ?? PC HUMAN MACHINE AWARD This award goes to the best game that can be played by two or more people in the same room (local multiplayer), and includes some digital element – fully analog games won’t be accepted. Brave Mouse Cartographer I common opera ?? PC, Mac Grave Call Totally not a game studio ?? PC, Android Phone Marble Run No Time ?? PC, Mac, Linux Secret Shuffle Adriaan de Jongh & Buds ?? iPhone, Android Phone Uncurtainty M. Wirth & L. Coquoz ?? Android Phone LONG FEATURE AWARD This is the award for complex games and developing virtual reality worlds. Those are the ones, who challenge your life by offering immersive storytelling and much more than 2hrs gameplay. Book of travels Might and Delight ?? PC Knife Sisters Transcenders Media ?? PC, Mac Mutazione Die Gute Fabrik ?? Mac, PC, PS4 Nuts Joon, Pol, Muutsch & Char ?? PC Tales from Off-Peak City vol.1 Cosmo D Studios ?? PC, Mac, Linux DIGITAL MOMENT AWARD Poems, statements, experiments, short experiences – expressions of socio-critical messages, personal or comedic life situations and feelings through an interactive medium. Maybe a sensual mechanic, a toy that gives the player a surprising twist in their experience. Dustnet Neilson Koerner-Safrata ?? PC, Oculus, Mac, Vive, Android, iOS Kristallijn Gaël Bourhis ?? PC, Mac Overseas Y. Kozhemyako & M. Skomorokh ?? PC Promesa Julian Palacios ?? PC Ynglet Nifflas & Triple Topping ?? PC EXPLORER AWARD Go, where nobody has gone before! This is the award for all forms of experiences beyond the boundaries of contemporary ways to play or develop games. Here, we are exploring alternative controllers, interactive installations, creative coding experiments, robotics and tech performances, as well as interdisciplinary teams, collaborations with science, makers, engineers, researchers, theater and writers. And yet it hurt Sheepolution ?? PC Cook your way Enric Granzotto Llagostera ?? PC Ordesa Cinétévé / ARTE ?? iPad, iPhone, Android Phone, Android Tablet Painting of a Cliff Jasper Oprel ?? PC, Other This, too, shall pass Marc Loths ?? PC HONORABLE MENTIONS Sadly, we can just have 25 nominees, but some works still are absolutely worth checking out! Keep an eye out for the following honorable mentions: 30 Birds Ram Ram ?? PC Evershift Evershift ?? PC Hidden Conflicts Jona Kleinlein ?? Mac, PC If found... Dreemfeel ?? PC, Mac Infini Barnaque ?? PC Janga Concrete Games ?? PC Manifold Garden William Chyr Studio ?? PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad Mørkredd Hyper Games ?? PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch Pre-Shave Saam Pahlavan ?? PC Stereophyta Kas Ghobadi ?? PC Suzerain Torpor Games ?? PC, Mac Yedoma Globula Bananaft ?? PC HUMBLE NEW TALENT The Humble New Talent Award highlights important new voices in the culture of games. Nominees are chosen by A Maze. and will not be awarded for one game, but their work and thoughts in general. Winners will be awarded with $15.000 to create a humble original. Beyondthosehills Andreas Diktyopoulos, Maria Aloupi ?? Elizabeth Lapensée Elizabeth Lapensée ?? Happy Broccoli Games Annika Maar, Joni Levinkind, Svyatoslav Petrov ?? Mwaaba Alec Mugala Mwaaba Alec Mugala ?? Studio Oleomingus Studio Oleomingus ?? Join the Community! 22-25 JULY, 2020 Donate Stream Discord Channel Code of conduct Jury Our interdisciplinary, international and 100% independent jury has the honors to review all nominees. As every game could be the most amazing one, they also have the freedom to select the nominees’ categories, which will be revealed on April 23rd. Nathalie Lawhead Nathalie Lawhead is a Net-Artist and Game Designer that has been creating experimental Digital Art since the late 90’s. Past works include titles such as the IGF winning Tetrageddon games, everything is going to be ok”, and the Electric zine maker. Owen Hindley Part of last years most amazing award winner Huldufugl, Owen is creating immersive theatrical environments and works with software, sound and electronics to make experiences for VR, installations, games, performances, & the web. He is also a co-founder at Horizons Studio making music-centered VR experiences. Rayzones Rayzones is a Moscow-based artist and game designer. they are a part of Lowpolis, a two-member team that makes things like good morning drifter ,a non-racing experience with pears, and gift-exchange-machine — a stork-powered postcard exchange service. Sarah Rudolph Sarah Rudolph is a video game and culture journalist from Germany. For the last decade they have been talking, writing and podcasting about games, gender, politics and their cultural implications. In 2018 they co-curated the queer video game history exhibition RAINBOW ARCADE at Schwules Museum in Berlin. Simon Bachelier Simon works as a freelance producer for video games studios since several years. He is currently working at accidental queens after the release of three narrative games. Besides game development, he organises and produces events dedicated to the independent game developers and alternative scenes. Past and current events he did include the Notgames Fest, Zoomachines and Indiecade Europe. 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