Freeplay Awards 2020 Finalists Announced

Freeplay, the longest-running independent games festival has recently announced the finalists for the 2020 Freeplay Awards.

The Freeplay Awards is an annual competition open to any and all independent Australian game developers, students and artists comprising 10 awards and 10 winners.

This year’s finalists for each judging category are as follows:

Excellence in Design

• A Hand with Many Fingers – Colestia
• Archaeological Chess – TwoPM Studios
• Barkour – Waynetron
• Life Tastes Like Cardboard – Demensa
• MoonQuest – Benjamin Porter

Excellence in Visual Art

• ALEPH {a life} – Mohamed Chamas
• ENDLESS SCROLL – Cecile Richard
• Peaceful Places – Jonothan Rubock
• Qinoto – Studio Flip
• Unfamiliar – Mana Tea

Excellence in Audio

• An Infinite Calm – Gerard Delaney
• LINK – Joe Louis Robinson
• MoonQuest – Benjamin Porter
• Something Looks Weird – Chris Gebbing
• Unfamiliar – Mana Tea

Excellence in Narrative

• A Hand With Many Fingers – Colestia
• ENDLESS SCROLL – Cecile Richard
• first date/can’t relate – Ruqiyah Patel
• Life Tastes Like Cardboard – Demensa
• middle of the hill – Meredith Hall

Non-Digital Game Award

• Archeological Chess – TwoPM Studios
• Dealing Blows – State of Mind Games
• Homebound – Aaron Lim
• Relics: A Game of Angels – Tin Star Games
• The Outer Whorls – Aaron Lim

Micro-Game Award

• Barkour – Waynetron
• ENDLESS SCROLL – Cecile Richard
• If We Were Allowed To Visit – Ian MacLarty & Gemma Mahedeo
• middle of the hill – Meredith Hall
• Something Looks Weird – Chris Gebbing

Experimental Game Award

• ALEPH {a life} – Mohamed Chamas
• If We Were Allowed To Visit – Ian MacLarty & Gemma Mahadeo
• Life Tastes Like Cardboard – Demensa
• Soon Only The Ocean – Max Myers
• The Outer Whorls – Aaron Lim

Student Game Award

• Ascent of Grob’s Domain – Daniel Ferguson
• Gremlin Brew – Nebulous Dingo
• Isle of Ewe – No Ewe Productions
• One Hundred Ghost Stories – Helen Kwok
• Shelter Pelter – David Flintoft, Cameron H, Jonah Bauer

Across The Ditch Award

• It Only Takes One – Tim Neumegen
• Leap Of Leaf – Andrew Savey
• Space Bear – Damon Smith
• The Library of Babble – Demi Schänzel
• This, Too, Shall Pass – Marc Loths
  

Winners will be announced online during the Freeplay Awards Ceremony on the final day of the Freeplay Independent Games Festival on June 14, 7:00pm AEST.

2020 Freeplay Digital will be held June 10-14. Due to circumstances and restrictions with COVID-19 this year’s festival will be held online.

You can find the entire festival schedule on the Freeplay website.