The German Computer Game Award 2020 is awarded despite all adversity. The jury now announced the nominations from a total of 315 submissions.
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The nominations are the result of a video conference of the 40 jury members held yesterday. The German Computer Game Award 2020 is awarded in 15 price categories and is endowed with a total of 590,000 euros. For the first time, a “digital gala” will be held this year. It replaces the planned award ceremony in the Löwenbräukeller in Munich, which cannot take place as previously planned due to the Corona crisis. The winners will be honored in the stream on www.deutscher-computerspielpreis.de on the evening of April 27, 2020.
Overview of the nominees for all jury categories in 2020
Best German game (endowed with 100,000 euros for the winning game and 25,000 euros each for the other nominees)
– Anno 1800 (Ubisoft Mainz / Ubisoft)
– Sea of Solitude (Jo-Mei / Electronic Arts)
– Through the Darkest of Times (Paintbucket Games / HandyGames)
Best family game (endowed with 75,000 euros)
– Lost Ember (Mooneye Studios)
– Through the Darkest of Times (Paintbucket Games / HandyGames)
– Tilt Pack (Navel / Super.com)
Young Talent Awards – Best Debut (endowed with 40,000 euros)
– Avorion (boxed goods)
– Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Megagon Industries / Thunderful Publishing)
– The Longing (Studio Seufz / Application Systems Heidelberg)
Young talent prices – best prototype (endowed with 35,000 euros for the best prototype and 20,000 euros each for four other nominees)
– Couch Monsters (Laurin Grossmann, John Kees, Marie Maslofski, Dennis Oprisa, Luca Storz, Jaqueline Vintonjek – HTW Berlin)
– Echoes of Etrya (Nik Douglas, Sylvia Exner, Lisa Günther, Robin Hentschel, Silvan Koch, Pia Krensel, Jacob Menz, Melina Stratmann, Soren Wagner – S4G School for Games)
– Prim (Oskar Alvarado, Bryan Atkinson, Jonas Fisch, Florian Genal, Michael Kenny, Maria Pendolino, Sascha Schneider – CMMN CLRS)
– Sonority (Franca Bittner, Marvin Clauß, Nadine Harter, Şahin Kablan, Madeline Reinaldo Mendoza, Lisa Nonnemacher, Clemens Sandner, Alice Schlotterbeck, Elisa Schorrig, Willi Schorrig, Vladyslav Trutniev)
– Wild Woods (Nadja Clauberg, Moritz Heinemeyer, Johannes Kutsch, Eric Massenberg, Marcus Meiburg – HAW Hamburg)
Best innovation and technology (endowed with 30,000 euros)
– Blautopf VR (Pixelcloud, TELLUX Next / Südwestrundfunk SWR, TELLUX Next)
– Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Megagon Industries / Thunderful Publishing)
– Pingunauten Trainer (Chair for Media Informatics, University of Duisburg-Essen)
Best game world and aesthetics (endowed with 30,000 euros)
– Lost Ember (Mooneye Studios)
– Sea of Solitude (Jo-Mei / Electronic Arts)
– The Longing (Studio Seufz / Application Systems Heidelberg)
Best game design (endowed with 30,000 euros)
– Anno 1800 (Ubisoft Mainz / Ubisoft)
– Spellforce 3: Soul Harvest (Grimlore Games / THQ Nordic)
– The Surge 2 (Deck13 / Focus Home Interactive)
Best serious game (endowed with 30,000 euros)
– Little extinguishers (Daedalic Entertainment Bavaria / Versicherungskammer Bayern)
– Tapestories (Pop Rocket Labs / PETA Deutschland e.V.)
– Through the Darkest of Times (Paintbucket Games / HandyGames)
Best mobile game (endowed with 30,000 euros)
– Arbo (It Matters Games)
– Song of Bloom (Kamibox)
– Stranded Sails (Lemonbomb Entertainment / Rokaplay)
Best expert game (endowed with 30,000 euros)
– Anno 1800 (Ubisoft Mainz / Ubisoft)
– Avorion (boxed goods)
– The Longing (Studio Seufz / Application Systems Heidelberg)
Best international game (undoped)
– Apex Legends (Electronic Arts)
– Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Electronic Arts)
– The Outer Worlds (Obsidian Entertainment)
Best international multiplayer game (undoped)
– Apex Legends (Electronic Arts)
– Dreams (Media Molecule / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
– Unrailed! (Indoor Astronaut / Daedalic Entertainment)
Player of the year (undoped)
– Gob b (Fatih Dayik)
– GameTube (Daniel Feith, Martin Le, Michael Obermeier and Christian Schneider)
– MoAuba (Mohammed Harkous)
Best studio (endowed with 30,000 euros)
– Deck 13 Interactive (Frankfurt am Main)
– Mooneye Studios (Hamburg)
– Yager Development (Berlin)
Special Jury Prize (undoped)
No nominations. Potential winners in this category will be announced on April 27, 2020.
Audience award (undoped)
The winner will be online voting from March 27 to April 23, 2020 www.deutscher-computerspielpreis.de/publikumspreis certainly.
