Indie Cup organizers has revealed the summer season’s winners. The largest independent game developers contest in Eastern Europe concluded on September 15th with rogue-lite city-builder Against the Storm taking the Best PC Game award. Vivid adventure game Mechanic 8230, which was nominated in 6 categories, took away two awards – Rising Star for the smaller teams with no publisher and Critics’ Choice, judged by game journalists.
Full winners list:
- Best PC Game — Against the Storm (Eremite Games)
- Best Mobile Game — Portal Walk (ART&FACT)
- Rising Star — Mechanic 8230 (Nudiventra)
- Critics’ Choice — Mechanic 8230 (Nudiventra)
- Streamers’ Choice — Despot’s Game (Konfa Games)
- Players’ Choice — Turbo Sloths (RainStyle Games)
- Best Art — Harmony’s Odyssey (Mythic Owl)
- Best Audio — Flippin Kaktus (rage++)
- Best Unreal Engine Game in partnership with Indie Cup platinum sponsor Unreal Engine — Cycled (TwistedNail)
- Most Promising Unreal Engine Game in partnership with Indie Cup platinum sponsor Unreal Engine — NORR: Will Walker (GWE Games)
- Best Unity Game — Cognition Method (Team Cognition)
- Xsolla’s Choice in partnership with Indie Cup gold sponsor Xsolla — Against the Storm (Eremite Games)
The 11th season of Indie Cup attracted a record-breaking 265 applications, with 178 of them making it into the main contest. You can check all of the S’21 nominees in the special section of the Indie Cop site.
But that is not all. Follow the Indie Cup news on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube – gamers and Indie Cup’s participants should expect one more thing in October!
On Indie Cup S’21, our jury board was as experienced as ever. The games were evaluated by experts from Rockstar Games, CD Projekt Red, Focus Entertainment, Ubisoft, NVIDIA, Wargaming, Pixonic, 101XP, Humble Bundle, and many others. Also, game journalists, influencers, winners of past contests, and even the players themselves, in the special Players’ Choice category.
This time Indie Cup expanded to a total of 22 countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and Estonia.
Indie Cup participants competed for a special prize from Kefir – the company is already in contact with a few studios from the contest. Teams can receive full funding for their game, as well as assistance in its development and promotion. Also, Xsolla provides $70,000 in monetary prizes, as well as various services for $80,000. Among Indie Cup prizes, there are powerful GeForce RTX 3070 graphic cards from Unreal Engine, PR services from GTP Media, tickets to conferences, services, and much more. Find out more about Indie Cup partners and prizes through the link.
Indie Cup S‘21 runs in partnership with Kefir, Unreal Engine, Geeky House, Xsolla, Ravenage, tinyBuild, 101XP, and other partners.
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