13th International Mobile Gaming Awards Global Nominations Announced
Public voting now open for the People’s Choice Award
The 13th International Mobile Gaming Awards Global (IMGA Global) today announced the 159 games nominated for their Grand Prix award, as well as those nominated for the 12 additional prizes. The winners will be announced on February 28 at the annual IMGA Global awards ceremony in San Francisco.
Fans of the nominated games can vote now at imgawards.com to help their favorites in the competition for the People’s Choice Award.
“2016 was a year of growth for the IMGA,” said Maarten Noyons, CEO and founder of the IMGA. “We launched competitions in Southeast Asia, the Middle East North Africa, and China. The lineup of this year’s IMGA Global campaign is unique, because it is the result of a worldwide search for quality, innovation and originality. The 159 nominees, including 29 unpublished games and 13 VR games, have been selected from nearly 3000 submissions, and unites our local competitions winners with those selected from our global call for entries. I personally recommend every single game in this line up.”
The winners of the new local IMGA editions (Southeast Asia, Middle East North Africa and China) were guaranteed spots as nominees for the IMGA Global competition.
For the second time, the IMGA will present an award for the best mobile VR game. Joining the existing awards for the first time this year will be a completely new initiative: the Best Game Artist Award, which will be given to the best artist or the best art team who worked on an exceptionally beautiful game.
And the Nominees Are:
1979 Revolution: A Cinematic Adventure Game, Navid Khonsari
Abi, Grant & Bert Studios/Lilith Games
BATMAN, The Telltale Series, Telltale Inc
Battle of Polytopia, Midjiwan
Beat Stomper, Rocky Hong
ChemCaper: Act 1 – Petticles in Peril, Jens Schottmann
Conduct THIS!, Northplay
Cosmic Express, Alan Hazelden
Crap! I’m Broke: Out of Pocket, Molly Heady-Carroll
Crypt of the NecroDancer, Brace Yourself Games
Dancing Hut (Unreleased), Jan Veselý
Dandara, David Martinez
dark Days, Parralel Studio
Dark Dot, Inzen Studio
Dawn of Titans, Naturalmotion
Day of the Tentacle Remastered, Double Fine Productions, Inc.
DEUL, Dean Day
Deus Ex GO, Nicolas Verge
DOFUS Touch, Alex Enklaar
Draisine Rally, Sami Kosonen
Drakenlords, Andres Tallos
Dream Defense, Keith Morales
Drop the wheels – Physics Game, Wajdi Azar
Durango, NEXON Company
Egg, Inc, Auxbrain
Eisenhorn: XENOS, Pixel Hero Games
Ember, 505 Games
Emoji Scream, Nathan Fouts
Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala, Artifex_Mundi
EnigmBox, Benoit Freslon
eQuiz, Ajay Arora
Eraser, Huy Nguyen Tuan
Escape With Words, Ander Kumm
F1 2016, Codemasters
Fetty Wap Nitro Nation Stories, Keegan Carter
FIFA Mobile Football, Electronic Arts
Final Shot, Netmarble Games
Forgotten King, Jan Hrnjak
Frostbound, Jill Sciulli
Galaxy on Fire 3 – Manticore, Tobias Piwek
Gardenscapes, Playrix
Gear.Club, Eden Games Mobile
Guild of Dungeoneering, Gambrinous
Hassle, Nikita Sokolov
Hatoful Boyfriend, Devolver Digital
High Noon Revolver, Mike Reñevo
Hop Hop Away, Hybrid Humans
Human Resource Machine, Experimental Gameplay Group
Hunters Gate, Josh Tarrant
I, Viking, Tim Dvoskin
Immortal Conquest, Miley Chen
Infinity Inc., George Kobyakov
InMind VR 2 (Daydream), Oleg Chumakov
Invisible Inc., Klei Games
Islands: Non Places, Carlburton
iSPY, Marc Mulcahy
Jrump, Benjamin Markby
King Fight, Rinz Luo
Kyo – Dark Quest DEMO, Imad Eddine Toubal
Lanota, Chun Chuan Tu
Late Shift, Caroline Feder
Leap of Fate, Clever-Plays
Legacy Quest, Socialspiel Entertainment
Legend of the Skyfish, Crescent Moon Games
Legends of Callasia, Boomzap Entertainment
Lifeless Tales: Dear Clarie, Igor Marcossi
Lineage red knights, NCSOFT Corporation
Liyla and the Shadows of War, Rasheed Abueideh
Looty Dungeon, Taco Illuminati
Lost Frontier, Mika Mobile
Lost in Harmony, Anne-Laure Fanise
Love You to Bits, Alike Studio / Pati.io
Mayhem, Ilya Shereshevsky
Mekorama, Martin Magni
monodi little star, Sticky hands inc.
Monster Chronicles, Kelvin Koh
Mr. Catt, 7QUARK
Mr. Know It All, Tarboosh Games
Mr. Robot:1.5.1, Telltale, Inc
Neon Chrome, 10tons Ltd
Nonstop Knight, Jon Howard
OPERATION DRACULA, Nabil Bukraa
Orbits, L’amenuiserie
Pavilion, Henrik Flink
Perchang, BEN MAKE GOOD GAME
PinOut, MediocreGames
Pirates Gulf, Mahmoud AlSati
Pix Hop, Abdallah Elsayed
Pokemon GO, Niantic, Inc.
PolyBlast, Game Cooks
Prism, Clint Siu
Pumped BMX 3, Yeah Us!
Punch Club, Yulia Vakhrusheva
Qurius, Dan Harnett
Qutopia, The Lost Methods
Redungeon, Nitrome
Reigns, Devolver Digital
Replica, Somi Koo
Retro City Rampage DX, Vblank Entertainment Inc.
Rodeo Stampede, Fetherweight Games
Roll Turtle, Kira Fu
Rome: Total War, Feral Interactive
Roofbot, David Fox
Rotangle, Youness Dradeb
Rush Rally 2, Stephen Brown / Brownmonster Limited
Rusty Lake: Roots, Robin Ras
Samorost 3, Amanita Design
Sara Is Missing, Jeremy Ooi
SENS VR, charles Ayats
Severed, Drinkbox Studios
Six!, GramGames
Sky Dancer, Pine Entertainment
Sky Garden: Farm in Paradise, Thach Huynh
Slither.io, Lowtech Studios
Snowboard Party 2 Lite, Ratrod Studio Inc.
Sole, Gossamer Games
Sorcery! 4, inkle Ltd
Space Cycler, Lance Lee
Space Marshals 2, Pixelbite
Spellsouls Duel of Legends, Nordeus
Star Trek Timelines, Elicia Basoli
Star Wars™: Force Arena, Netmarble Games Corp.
StarDrone VR, Alexey Menshikov
STAY, Ignacio Diaz
Steamburg, Mariusz Szypura
SteamWorld Heist, Image & Form International AB
Stick Squad – Suicide Missions, Mario Boutin
Stretch Dungeon, Nitrome
Super Mario Run, Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Super SteamPuff, Shawn Beck
Swan Song: Fantasy chronicles, Games_Labs
SwapTales: Leon!, Charlotte Razon
Tacticool, Alexey Sazonov
Tahu Bulat, Eldwin Viriya
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Legends, Ludia Inc.
The Arcslinger , Richard Robledo
The Biumbis, Pablo Navajas
The Bug Butcher, Noodlecake Studios Inc
The Night Café, Borrowed Light Studios
The Rabbit Hole, Pedro Kayatt
The Schema (المخطط), Diaa ElHak Guedouari
The Swords, Lee-Kuo Chen
The Trail, Kongregate
The World 3: Rise of Demon, Bob Choi
THE WRITER: A CHANGE OF IDENTITY, Alexander Polutov
Think Shift, Edmund Ching
Thirteen Souls, Bob Choi
Toca Hair Salon 3, Toca Boca
Toca Life: Vacation, Toca Boca
Trigono, Marco Tormento
Twobit , laurent kermel
Uri: The Sprout of Lotus Creek, zhiwei tan
Viber Emperors, Imperia Online
Wands , Lisa Le Gresley
We Are Heroes, JOY Entertainment
Wonderglade, Peter Stahl
Zip Zap, Philipp Sotllenmayer
Zombie Anarchy ™: Strategy, War & Survival, Gameloft
Zombie Derby 2, HeroCraft
About IMGA
Created in 2004, the IMGA is the longest standing mobile games award program. With its long history and unique judging process, it has recognized some of the world’s most popular titles in their early days, such as Angry Birds, Badland and Monument Valley. It is the only competition that unites the industry by celebrating excellence and innovation in games. In 2016 the IMGA launched local competitions in Southeast Asia, China and Middle East North Africa, while keeping an international competition, rebranded IMGA Global. The winners of IMGA Global will be announced on March 1 st 2017 in San Francisco.
The IMGA Global competition is sponsored by mobile game publishers Youzu, KING, Supercell, Rovio and by TDS (japan), Samsung, Euroméditerranée and the City of Marseille.
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