This year, we had an amazing number of entries for our awards – 115, up from 35 last year. This huge volume meant that we brought in 2 new judges – Michael Theiler and our own director Paul Callaghan in addition to our original four to deal with them all.
Even with this increase, we’re sad to say that we didn’t receive enough entries for our Best On Paper Design category to properly judge it. Apologies to everyone who entered this year. We appreciate your hard work and we’ll be looking at bringing it back in 2013.
For the remaining categories, our judges were hugely impressed with the range, diversity, and originality of entries and together we found it really tough to bring it down to just 3 finalists – and the eventual winner in each. But we did it, and so here are the finalists for the 2012 Freeplay Awards.
Best Audio in a Game
- Expand – Christopher Johnson, Christopher Larkin
- Lunar Flight – Sean Edwards
- They Love You – Zac Duff, Henrik Pettersson, Paul Annesley, and Nathan Antony
Best Writing in a Game
- AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS – Christy Dena
- Flatland: Fallen Angle – See Through Studios
- Gamebook Adventures 8: Infinite Universe – Andrew Drage
Best Technical Innovation
- [tesseract] – Douglas Warouw, Jason Fernandez
- Automation – The Car Company Tycoon Game – Camshaft Software
- Lunar Flight – Sean Edwards
Best Concept Art
- DEATHSPUDS – Josh Sacco / Adam Taylor
- One Seed – Ariel Magnes
- Peleda – Vishus Productions / Fiasco Studios
Best Art in a Game
- Little Things Forever – Matthew Hall
- The Last Stand: Dead Zone – Con Artist Games
- Toybox – Barrel of Donkeys
Best Design in a Game
- escapeVektor – Nnooo
- Stickets – Wanderlands
- They Love You – Zac Duff, Henrik Pettersson, Paul Annesley, and Nathan Antony
Best International Game
- HUEBRIX – Yellow Monkey Studios
- Splice – Cipher Prime
- The Fourth Wall – Logan Fieth
Best Australian Game
- Little Things Forever – Matthew Hall
- Stickets – Wanderlands
- Toybox – Barrel of Donkeys
The 2012 Freeplay Awards will be presented as part of the Freeplay Independent Games Festival on September 23 at the Order of Melbourne.
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