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 2015, we had games from around the world competing for prizes:

• Best Game
• Best Art
• Best Narrative
• Best Gameplay
• Best Sound
• Innovation
• Revelation Brazil
• Best Educational Game
• Best Game by Popular Vote

FINALISTS AND AWARDED GAMES OF 2015

This War of Mine
11 Bit Studios 

Finalists for the Best Game Award:

• This War of Mine (11 Bits Studios)
• Event[0] (Ocelot Society)
• Lumino City (State of Play Games)
• Mekazoo (The Good Mood Creators)
• Treeker: Os Óculos Perdidos (Fernando Paulo)

Lumino City
State of Play Games

Finalists for the Best Art Award:

• Lumino City (State of Play Games)
• Plug & Play (Etter Studio)
• The Coral Cave (Atelier Sentô)
• This War of Mine (11 Bit Studio)
• Treeker: Os Óculos Perdidos (Fernando Paulo)

Okhlos
Coffee Powered Machine  

Finalists for the Best Gameplay Award:

• Okhlos (Coffee Powered Machine)
•  A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build (Benjamin Davis & Eyan Roth)
• Big Action Mega Fight! (Double Stallion Games)
• Circa Infinity (Kenny Sun)
• Klang (Tinimations)

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
Fictiorama Studios​

Finalists for the Best Narrative Award:

• Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today (Fictiorama Studios)
• Event[0] (Ocelot Society)
• This War of Mine (11 Bit Studios)
• Three Fourths Home ([bracket]games)
• ULTRAWORLD (Neon Serpent LLC)

Inside My Radio
Seaven Studio 

Finalists for the Best Sound Award:

• Inside My Radio (Seaven Studio)
• Apotheon (Alientrap Games)
• Klang (Tinimations)
• Mekazoo (The Good Mood Creators)
• Thumper (Drool)

Event[0]
Ocelot Society

Finalists for the Innovation Award:

• Event[0] (Ocelot Society)
• Find the Line (Stigol)
• Nova‐111 (Funktronic Labs)
• Plug & Play (Etter Studio)
• Tribal & Error (Grotman)

Toren
Swordtales

Finalists for the Revelation Brazil Award:

• Toren (Swordtales)
• Magenta Arcade (Long Hat House)
• Momodora III (Guilherme Melo Martins)
• Odallus: The Dark Call (JoyMasher)

Learn Japanese with Tako
Giant Soul Interactive 

Finalists for the Best Educational Game Award:​

• ​Learn Japanese with Tako ‐ Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji and Romaji (Giant Soul Interactive)
• Niche ‐ a generic survival game (Playful Oasis)
• Overpaint (LANDKA)
• Synonymy (Christopher Jarvis)
• Wyz (Patricia da Silva Leite)​

This War of Mine
11 Bit Studios 

All games compete for the Popular Vote Award.​

BIG Starter

BIG Starter is a competition that is part of BIG Festival. Also a cultural contest, BIG Starter rewards the best game project, evaluating its market potential. Are accepted only Brazilian digital game projects with playable demos or that have already been developed but have not yet been published.

FINALISTS AND AWARDED GAMES OF 2015

 Relic Hunters Zero
Rogue Snail

Finalists for the Best Entertainment Game Project Award:

• Relic Hunters Zero (Rogue Snail)
• Alkimya (Bad Minions)
• Dog Duty (Zanardi&Liza)
• Massive Madness (Ninja Garage)
• My Night Job (Webcore)

Fofuuu
Be|Tri

Finalists for the Best Educational Game Project Award:

• Fófuuu (Bruno Tachinardi, Trícia Araújo, Rejane Lima)
• Dengue Over (Ilusis Interactive Graphics)
• Peronio Hologram VR and AR Popup Book (Ovni Studios)