UNPACKING leads nominations at 2021 Australian Game Developer Awards as finalists announced

Witch Beam's puzzle game Unpacking has secured the most nominations with four at this year's Australian Game Developer Awards (AGDAs),

Both Webbed by Sbug Games and The Artful Escape by Beethoven and Dinosaur secured 3 nominations each including the coveted Game of the Year Award nomination.

The awards will be held virtually 6 October at 7pm AEDT hosted by Amanda and Angharad Yeo on the IGEA twitch channel.

Here are the full list of nominees for the 2021 AGDAs, and click through to learn more about some of the titles when the developers joined us on the podcast.

Excellence in Art

• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)
• art of rally (Funselektor)
• Unpacking (Witch Beam)
  

Excellence in Gameplay

• Unpacking (Witch Beam)
• Ring of Pain (Twice Different)
• Webbed (Sbug Games)
  

Excellence in Narrative

• TOPOGRAPHY (Cecile Richard)
• The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller)
• Choices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out (Tin Man Games, Screwtape Studios)
  

Excellence in Audio

• Webbed (Sbug Games)
• TRIOS (Samurai Punk)
• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)
  

Game of the Year

• Webbed (Sbug Games)
• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)
• Unpacking (Witch Beam)

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Excellence in Accessibility

• Submerged: Hidden Depths (Uppercut Games)
• Unpacking (Witch Beam)
• Eastern Market Murder (True Crime Games)
  

Excellence in Mobile Games

• The Oregon Trail (Gameloft Brisbane)
• Eastern Market Murder (True Crime Games)
• Botworld Adventure (Featherweight Games)
  

Excellence in Serious Games (Applied/Impactful)

• Sharmila (World Food Programme and Chaos Theory Games)
• Streets of My Town (Institute of Games)
• TRIOS (Samurai Punk)
  

Excellence in Ongoing Games (Games as a Service)

• Pico Tanks (Panda Arcade)
• Crossy Road Castle (Hipster Whale)
• The Sims FreePlay (The Firemonkeys)
  

Excellence in Emerging Games (Student or Early Career)

• Pebble Witch (Fuzzy Ghost)
• Project Wingman (Sector D2)
• Video World (Things for Humans)

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