About the awards
Digital Vikings Awards is an international competition for indie game developers and publishers from the Baltic region, showcasing the best upcoming and released games.
The winners will be announced during an on-site event - DevGAMM Gdańsk 2024 on February 29th, 2024. You can submit for free to apply for the Steam event.
Timeline
14.01
End of submissons
06.02
Nominations announcement
29.02
Winners announcement
Categories
The most important category, judges will be taking into consideration uniqueness of gameplay, art style, overall game reception from the critics and players, and strength of influence on the indie scene.
All publishers attending DevGamm Gdańsk 2024 are automatically nominated for the Best Indie Publisher Award. Winners selected by the Jury, Digital Vikings and DevGAMM. The jury will take into consideration publisher’s cooperation with platform holders, sales, creative campaigns, unique portfolio, game reviews of Publishers top games from 2023.
Award for the game with the biggest potential to become the top trending game. Judges will look at the general hype across all social media from gameplay videos/trailers/demos/playtests from both bigger and smaller teams.
Games with the most visually appealing and unique art style, blending nicely with gameplay and an outstanding level of detail and overall polish have the biggest chance in this category.
Games with unique genre combinations, gameplay innovations and fresh ideas, having an ability to influence the whole indie scene. the most visually appealing and unique art style, blending nicely with gameplay and an outstanding level of detail and overall polish have the biggest chance in this category.
Upcoming indie games in all sorts of playable state: Early Access, prologue, demo, closed alpha/beta and any other form that invites community to shape the ongoing development.
Previous edition winners
The most important category, judges will be taking into consideration uniqueness of gameplay, art style, overall game reception from the critics and players, and strength of influence on the indie scene.
Award for the game with the biggest potential to become the top trending game. Judges will look at the general hype across all social media from gameplay videos/trailers/demos/playtests.
Award for the game with best multiplayer and/or co-op as the main part. `Stable netcode, fair monetization and unique player modes and updates schedule will all be taken into account.
Judges will look into games which received an overwhelmingly positive response from a certain group of players, but were not that popular among critics/media and influencers.
Judges will be looking for the best game of 2022 developed and published solely by “one person team”.Solo developers are allowed to use any external help on QA, music and use of stock art.
Games with the most visually appealing and unique art style, blending nicely with gameplay and an outstanding level of detail and overall polish have the biggest chance in this category.
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FEBRUARY 28-29
DevGAMM Gdańsk 2024 is a B2B event for game developers, publishers, and all game industry fans. Powered by Digital Vikings, DevGAMM will gather 500+ professionals for networking, top-notch sessions, new games lineup, and career opportunities. See you in gorgeous Gdańsk on February 28-29!
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