BIG Festival AWARDS - 2017

With 617 submissions from 54 countries, the competition was as tough as it gets.
We would like to thank all participants for submitting their hard work - we'll continue showcasing & awarding games of all shapes and sizes as long as there still are such amazing devs out there to make them.

These 45 games were showcased at BIG Festival 2017, with the 11 winners being  chosen by the international jury & announced live at the BIG Festival Awards Ceremony on June 29th in São Paulo.

Without further ado, BIG Festival is glad to announce this year's winners & finalists:

Best Game: Overcooked

Finalists:

• The Deadly Tower of Monsters (ACE Team - Chile)
• Death Squared (SMG Studio - Australia)
• Figment (Bedtime Digital Games - Denmark)
• Overcooked (Ghost Town Games - England)
• Wuppo (Knuist & Perzik - Netherlands)

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Best Brazilian Game: Distortions
(States are listed in place of country of origin)

Finalists:

• Esquadrão 51 (Márcio Rosa - Rio Grande do Sul)
• Necrosphere (Cat Nigiri - Santa Catarina)
• Starlit Archery Club (Rockhead Games - Rio Grande do Sul)
• NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics (Post Mortem Pixels - São Paulo)
• Warlock's Tower (Midipixel - Rio de Janeiro)

• Distortions (Among Giants - São Paulo)
• In Extremis (LNDFRR - Rio de Janeiro)
• Keen (Cat Nigiri - Santa Catarina)
• Sword Legacy Omen (Fableware & Firecast - Rio de Janeiro)
• Legend of the Skyfish (Mgaia Studio - São Paulo)

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Best Latin American Game: The Deadly Tower of Monsters

​Finalists:

• 64.0 (Rebel Rabbit - Peru)
• The Deadly Tower of Monsters (ACE Team - Chile)
• ETHEREAL (Nonsense Arts - Argentina)
• Sweet Meat (OneEyeAnt - Argentina)
• UnderHero (Paper Castle Games - Venezuela)

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Public Vote - Best Game: Distortions

• Distortions (Among Giants - Brazil)

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Best Educational or Social Impact Game: Orwell
R$ 5,000.00 prize - sponsored by Dow Chemicals.

​Finalists:

• Ishmael (Necessary Games - United States)
• Jump, Step, Step (Thang Phung Dinh & Dzung Phung Dinh - Vietnam)
• Leis para Todos (Supernova Games - Brazil)
• Lucro S/A (Universidade Feevale - Lab. de Objetos de Aprendizagem - Brazil)
• ​​Orwell (Osmotic Studios - Germany)

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Best VR Game: Superhot VR

​Finalists:

• SUPERHOT VR (SUPERHOT Team - Poland)
• A Lost Room (Cruel Byte - Brazil)
• Redout (34BigThings - Italy)
• The Price of Freedom (Construct Studio - United States)

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Best Art: Old Man's Journey

​Finalists:

• Figment (Bedtime Digital Games - Denmark)
• The Deadly Tower of Monsters (ACE Team - Chile)
• Esquadrão 51 (Márcio Rosa - Brazil)
• Beat the Game (Worm Animation - United States)
• Four Last Things (Joe Richardson - England)
• Vignettes (Skeleton Business - France)
• Old Man's Journey (Broken Rules - Austria)

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Best Narrative: Figment

​Finalists:

• Detention (Red Candle Games - Taiwan)
• Beholder (Alawar Entertainment - Russia)
• A Place for the Unwilling (AlPixel Games - Spain)
• An Afternoon Rippling (Mars Lizard - United States)
• Milkmaid of the Milky Way (Machineboy - Norway)
• Wuppo (Knuist & Perzik - Netherlands)
• Figment (Bedtime Digital Games - Denmark)

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Innovation Award: Yankai's peak

​Finalists:

• ​​Orwell (Osmotic Studios - Germany)
• Old Man's Journey (Broken Rules - Austria)
• Necrosphere (Cat Nigiri - Brazil)
• Vignettes (Skeleton Business - France)
• YANKAI'S PEAK (Kenny Sun - United States)

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Best Sound: Ethereal

Finalists:

• Aaero (Mad Fellows - England)
• Beat the Game (Worm Animation - United States)
• The Deadly Tower of Monsters (ACE Team - Chile)
• ETHEREAL (Nonsense Arts - Argentina)
• Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play UG - Germany)
• Guns of Icarus Alliance (Muse Games - United States)
• She Remembered Caterpillars (Jumpsuit Entertainment - Germany)

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Best Gameplay: Overcooked

Finalists:

• Death Squared (SMG Studio - Australia)
• Overcooked (Ghost Town Games - England)
• Celeste (Matt Makes Games Inc. - Brazil)
• Nidhogg 2 (Messhof - United States)
• Ultimate Chicken Horse (Clever Endeavor Games - Canada)
• Starlit Archery Club (Rockhead Games - Brazil)
• Necrosphere (Cat Nigiri - Brazil)

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See also:

BIG Starter Pitch Contest Finalists & Winners

Brazilian Games at BIG Booth