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 2014, 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 2014

Nom Nom Galaxy
Q-Games

Finalists for the Best Game Award:

• Nom Nom Galaxy (Q-Games)
• Gorogoa (Jason Roberts)
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base)
• Papers, Please (Lucas Pope)
• The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)

Gorogoa
Jason Roberts

Finalists for the Best Art Award:

• Gorogoa (Jason Roberts)
• Ballpoint Universe: Infinite (Arachnid Games)
• Secrets of Rætikon (Broken Rules)
• Tengami (Nyamyam)
• Nom Nom Galaxy (Q-Games)

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Asteroid Base

Finalists for the Best Gameplay Award:

• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base)
• Blek (Kunabi Brother)
• Bounden (Game Oven)
• Drei (Etter Studio)
• Nom Nom Galaxy (Q-Games)

Framed
Loveshack Entertainment

Finalists for the Best Narrative Award:

• Framed (Loveshack Entertainment)
• The Banner Saga (Stoic Studio)
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch (Young Horses)
• Papers, Please (Lucas Pope)
• The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)

Crypt of the Necrodancer
Brace Yourself Games

Finalists for the Best Sound Award:

• Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games)
• Ephemerid (SuperChop Games)
• Icycle: On Thin Ice (Damp Gnat)
• Tengami (Nyamyam)
• The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)

Like a Boss!
Fire Horse Studio

Finalists for the Revelation Brazil Award:

• Like a Boss! (Fire Horse Studio)
• Aritana e a Pena da Harpia (Duaik)
• Chroma Squad (Behold Studios)
• Headblaster (Loud Noises)
• Ninjin (Pocket Trap)

Aritana e a Pena da Harpia
Duaik

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 2014

Jotunheim Project
Prosperity Games

DemoNight Finalists:​

•  Jotunheim Project (Prosperity Games)
• Cheesecake Cool Conrad (Reload Game Studio)
• Satellite Rush (Kimeric Labs)
• Slipstream GX (Airtime Productions)
• Tuuf (Orunz)
• Cake Scraper (Playerum)
• Star Vikings (Rogue Snail)