The Japanese indie game festival BitSummit has wrapped up, and in doing so named the winners of its annual awards program.
Six of the winners were selected by a panel of industry judges while one was left to a public vote. This year, the winner of the top honors, the Vermilion Gate Award, was Deskworks’ RPG Time: The Legend of Wright.
Developed by a two-person team, RPG Time won out over fellow nominees Unpacking (Witch Beam), World of Horror (panstasz/Ysbryd Games), 39 Days to Mars (It’s Anecdotal), and Below (Capy Games). Obakeidoro by Freestyle Games walked away with this year’s audience-selected Popular Selection Award as well.
The rest of this year’s finalists can be found below, with each category’s winning game in bold:
International Award
- Star Renegades (Massive Damage, Inc)
- Tunche (Leap Game Studios)
- Mørkredd (Hyper Games)
- Legal Dungeon (Somi)
- Tale of Ronin (Dead Mage)
Innovative Outlaw Award
- Unpacking (Witch Beam)
- Onkou Cha-Han (Wataru Nakano X Miyazaworks)
- Symbio (Jesper Bergman, Hangning Zhang, Kaijun Wang, Kristina Stiskaite, Alexander Sinn, Merve Metinkol)
- Madorica Real Estate (Gift Ten Industry K.K.)
- Legal Dungeon (Somi)
Excellence in Game Design
- RPG Time: The Legend of Wright (Deskworks)
- The Missing – J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories (White Owls)
- Sweep It! (Oomoplata Games)
- Below (Capy Games)
- Mørkredd (Hyper Games)
Excellence in Visual Design
- RPG Time: the Legend of Wright (Deskworks)
- 39 Days to Mars (It's Anecdotal)
- Star Renegades (Massive Damage, Inc)
- Tales of the Neon Sea (Zodiac Interactive)
- Lost Ember (Moon Eye Studios)
Excellence in Sound Design
- Unpacking (Witch Beam)
- Invisible (Invisible)
- No Straight Roads (Metronomik)
- Below (Capy Games)
- Phogs! (Coatsink)