The results are in, they’ve been counted, lists have been checked twice etc.
Our heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who submitted a game, design or piece of art – we had an astonishing number of entries, representing an enormous amount of work put in by indie developers, writers and artists from all over the world.
So… we are very pleased to announce the finalists for the Inaugural Freeplay Awards!
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Best Australian Game
- Sword Lady & The Viking – Up Down Ready
- Brawsome – Jolly Rover
- Finn Morgan – Colourbind
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Best International Game
- Mahdi Bahrami (Iran) – Bo
- Anders Højsted (Denmark) - TryFail
- Yellow Jam (Brazil) – Last Hope
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Best Design in a Game
- Sword Lady & The Viking – Up Down Ready
- Alexander Bruce - Hazard: The Journey Of Life
- The Voxel Agents – Train Conductor
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Best On-Paper Design
- Tobye Ryan – Epic Adventure
- Timothy Ryan – iCrazy Man
- Katie Murphy – Galaqua
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Best Art in a Game
- Farbs – Captain Forever (series)
- Alexander Bruce – Hazard: The Journey Of Life
- KlickTock – Doodle Find
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Best Concept Art
- Fiasco Studios – Exodus
- Evan Raynor – City Ruins
- CatBus Interactive – Speed Demon
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Best Technical Innovation
- Farbs – Captain Forever (series)
- Finn Morgan – Colourbind
- Sword Lady & The Viking – Up Down Ready
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Best Game Writing
- Farbs – Captain Forever (series)
- Alexander Bruce – Hazard: The Journey Of Life
- PVI Collective – Transumer
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Best Audio
- The Voxel Agents – Train Conductor
- Tin Man Games – Gamebook Adventures 1: An Assassin in Orlandes
- Brawsome – Jolly Rover
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Good luck to all! Especially Up Down Ready!
Congrats to all! and long live Sword Lady & The Viking.
Wow I never knew that Colourbind was done by an Australian. Amazing game.
Congrats to all the other nominees also.
Grats to all finalists
Looking forward to seeing some amazing art / game designs 
Congratulations to all the finalists! Some awesome names / games in there. Looking forward to the results!
hey guys. I wanna gratulate every finalist, specialy my brother Mahdi Bahrami. (and What a nice name BO…)
Congrats, all, and best of luck! This is all getting pretty exciting.
Matt: Thanks!
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The developers of Up Down Ready are working to get a more permanent home for it as soon as possible, but in the meantime you can find the game and more information over here:
http://dhamwoodprojects.blogspot.com/