BIG Festival

BIG Festival (Brazil's Independent Games Festival) is held by Bit Productions Ltda., thanks to the sponsorship and support of various companies. It is a cultural contest that rewards the best games selected by an invited jury and rigid selection committee, can participate any persons or representatives of companies of any nationality and are accepted all kinds of digital games for any platform, console or media.
In 2012, we had games from around the world competing for prizes:
  • Best Game
  • Best Art
  • Best Narrative
  • Best Gameplay
  • Best Sound
  • Revelation Brazil
  • Best Game by Popular Vote

FINALISTS AND AWARDED GAMES OF 2012

Unmechanical
Talawa Games
Finalists for the Best Game Award:
  • Unmechanical (Talawa Games)
  • Capsized (Lee Vermeulen)
  • Papo & Yo (Minority Media)
  • Awesomenauts (Ronimo Games)
  • Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers (Black Pants)
Wonderputt
Damp Gnat
Finalists for the Best Art Award:
  • Wonderputt (Damp Gnat)
  • Incredipede (Colin Northway)
  • Deadlight (Tequila Works)
  • Unmechanical (Talawa Games)
  • Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers (Black Pants)
Finalists the Best Game Award:
Tiny and Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers
Black Pants
Finalists for the Best Gameplay Award:
  • Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers (Black Pants)
  • Awesomenauts (Ronimo Games)
  • Fingle (Adriaan de Jongh)
  • Capsized (Lee Vermeulen)
  • Perspective (Digipen Institute of Technology)
Papo & Yo
Minority Media
Finalists for the Best Narrative Award:
  • Papo & Yo (Minority Media)
  • Qasir al-Wasat (Aduge)
  • Storyteller (Daniel Benmergui)
  • Nous (Digipen Institute of Technology)
  • BlindSide (Epicycle, LLC)
Unmechanical
Talawa Games
Finalists for the Best Sound Award:
  • Unmechanical (Talawa Games)
  • Nous (Digipen Institute of Technology)
  • Mirage (Mario von Rickenbach)
  • BlindSide (Epicycle, LLC)
  • Flight of the Fireflies (Jonathan Hise Kaldma)
Out There Somewhere
Miniboss
Finalists for the Revelation Brazil Award:
  • Out There Somewhere (Miniboss)
  • Qasir al-Wasat (Aduge)
  • Knights of Pen & Paper (Behold Studios)
  • Mr. Bree: Returning Home (Tawstudio Entertainment)
Papo & Yo
Minority Media
All games compete for the Popular Vote Award.

DemoNight

The DemoNight was a BIG Festival competition, a night for prototype and unfinished projects demonstrations, awarding the best game project in development, and being an earlier version of the current BIG Starter.
Like BIG Starter, were accepted Brazilian digital game projects with playable or already-developed demos that have not yet been published.

FINALISTS AND AWARDED GAMES OF 2012
XH20
PetitFrabrik
DemoNight Finalists:
  • ​XH20 (PetitFabrik)
  • Toren (Swordtales)
  • Knight's Trial (Fire Horse Studio)
  • Três (Twisted Key)
  • Vida (Flávio Creasso)
  • Shcrödy (Retromaze)
  • Trankeira (Storyteller Studio)
  • Selene - The Fantasy (The Castle-Builder)
  • Choose to Chase (Zeppelin Game Studio)
  • CubIsland (Dome Game Studio)

Dev Island

The Dev Island was a BIG Festival competition, in the model of a Game Jam, a game development challenge with a time limit.
Four teams, formed altogether by 15 young developers, had 24 hours to develop a game from identical instructions that were only revealed on a surprise date! The games were evaluated by the public and the winner received a prize of R$ 6,000 (approximately US$ 2,860 at the time).

AWARDED GAME OF 2012
Pro Gamer: The Game
Catavento
BIG Festival – Brazil’s Independent Games Festival