Episode

Here are your 2020 AGDA Winners

Every winner of the 2020 Australian Game Developer Awards!

October 7, 2020 7:00 PM

It's been a very different Melbourne International Games Week in 2020, but the Australian Game Developer Awards are here and with it are the best games made by Australians this year.

BEST ART

Windbound (5 Lives Studios)

RITE (Pond Games)

Necrobarista (Route 59) - WINNER

BEST SOUND

Roombo: First Blood (Samurai Punk)

Audioplay: Alien Strike (Audioplay) - WINNER

Boomerang Fu (Cranky Watermelon)

Audioplay: Alien Strike by Audioplay "Best Sound"

BEST EMERGING GAME

Quantum Suicide (Cotton Candy Cyanide)

RITE (Pond Games) - WINNER

Elden: Path of the Forgotten (Onerat)

RISING STAR AWARD

Meredith Hall - WINNER

Jarrod Farquhar-Nicol - WINNER

BEST GAMEPLAY

Boomerang Fu (Cranky Watermelon) - WINNER

Baron: Fur is Gonna Fly (DM Games)

Moving Out (SMG Studio)

 

Boomerang Fu - Cranky Watermelon "Best Gameplay"

BEST SERIOUS GAME

Under a Star Called Sun (Cécile Richard)

Kana Quest (Not Dead Design) - WINNER

KangaZoo(Chaos Theory Games & Pentaquest)

BEST AR/VR

Misadventure in Little Lon (True Crime Mysteries)

Shooty Skies Overdrive (Mighty Games Group) - WINNER

Espire 1: VR Operative (Digital Lode)

GAME CONNECT AWARD

Ella Macintyre - WINNER

BEST MUSIC

RITE (Pond Games) - WINNER

Baron: Fur is Gonna Fly (DM Games)

Under a Star Called Sun (Cécile Richard)

RITE - Pond Games "Best Music"

BEST NARRATIVE

Necrobarista (Route 59)

Under a Star Called Sun (Cécile Richard) - WINNER

Quantum Suicide (Cotton Candy Cyanide)

  

BEST MOBILE GAME

Ballistic Baseball (Gameloft Brisbane)

Crossy Road Castle (Hipster Whale) - WINNER

Pico Tanks: Multiplayer Mayhem (Panda Arcade)

 

BEST ONGOING GAME (GAME AS A SERVICE)

World of Tanks (Wargaming Sydney) - WINNER

Piffle (Hipster Whale and Mighty Games Group)

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock (Black Lab Games)

World of Tanks - Wargaming Sydney "Best Ongoing Game"

ADAM LANCMAN AWARD

Jane "Truna" Turner - WINNER

STUDIO OF THE YEAR AWARD

League of Geeks - WINNER

GAME OF THE YEAR

Boomerang Fu (Cranky Watermelon)

Necrobarista (Route 59)

Moving Out (SMG Studio) - WINNER

Moving Out - SMG Studio "Game of the Year"

So that brings it all to a close for 2020, do yourself a favour though and check out some amazing game development outfits over on Twitter under the hashtag #AGDAsRedCarpet.

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Some good ninja stuff, good samurai stuff, it took them a long time to get here but boy I'm glad they did.
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Pros:
  • Naoe feels like the old assassins from previous games
  • Yasuke definitely doesn't, which is very welcome change
  • Absolutely stunning world that feels busy and lived in
Cons:
  • Maybe the world actually might be too big?
  • It's an evolution not a revolution, if you've bounced off Assassin's Creed in the past this doesn't break the mold.
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