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The Freeplay 2018 Awards Finalists
The Freeplay Award
The Catacombs of Solaris – Ian MacLarty
- Exo One – Exbleative
- Knuckle Sandwich – Andrew Brophy
- Dissembler – Ian MacLarty
- Skyward – Rule & Make
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy – Bennett Foddy
Excellence in Visual Art
- Tala & the Flower Seed – Matthew Petrak
- The Gardens Between – The Voxel Agents
- Exo One – Exbleative
- Desert Child – Oscar Brittain
- Paperbark – Paper House
Excellence in Audio
- Deios II // DEIDIA – BARCHboi
- Florence – Mountains
- Ticket – magicdweedoo
- Knuckle Sandwich – Andrew Brophy
- Exo One – Exbleative
- Breakfast Cult – Paul Matijevic
- Bound By Blood – Jessica Gates
- Florence – Mountains
- Knuckle Sandwich – Andrew Brophy
- {<>} – Albey Amakiir, Nicholas Staracek, Erika Verkaaik & Aaron Williams
Non-Digital Game Award
- Entropy: Worlds Collide – Rule & Make
- LAIKA – Melody Watson
- Breakfast Cult – Paul Matijevic
- {<>} – Albey Amakiir, Nicholas Staracek, Erika Verkaaik & Aaron Williams
- It Is Forbidden – Tin Star Games
Micro-Game Award
- Rise – Dakoda Barker
- Detachment – Jane Cocks
- The Catacombs of Solaris – Ian MacLarty
- My Lil Fanfic – Star Paridaes
- LAIKA – Melody Watson
- Ticket – magicdweedoo
- Deios II // DEIDIA – BARCHboi
- WORLD4 – Alexander Muscat
- Thomas Bowker’s Draw – Thomas Bowker
- The Catacombs of Solaris – Ian MacLarty
Student Game Award
- Bound By Blood – Jessica Gates
- That Boy Is A Monstr – Sav Ferguson
- An Aspie Life – EnderLost Studios
- Just, Bearly – Daniel J Roberts
- Project Bluebook – Bathysphere Studios
- Lacuna – TeamFourthEye
Across The Ditch Award
- Flutter VR – Runaway Play
- Tales of the Crooked Girl Scout – Sergio Cornaga
- Robin – Team Summer
- 39 Days to Mars – It’s Anecdotal
- Echo Grotto – Gaugepunk Games
Honourable Mentions
- The Thin Silence – Two PM Studios
- The Maître D’ – Seadads
- The American Dream – Samurai Punk
- Museum of Communication – Pity Party
- Wildfire – Sneaky Bastards
- Alien Caseno – Grace Bruxner
- Summertime SPLASH Fish Volleyball Paint DELUXE – Marben Exposito
- Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles – Prideful Sloth
2018 Freeplay Awards Jury
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Previous Awards
2015
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Category Winners
Best Visual Art: Movement Study 1
Best Audio: Submerged
Best Narrative: Project Ven
Best Tech: Space Dust Racers
Best Non-Digital: Rise to Power
2013
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Category Winners
Visual Art: The Paper Fox
Audio Design: Particulars
Narrative: Particulars
Technical Innovation: Turnover
Non-Digital: Outside These City Walls
People’s Choice: Turnover
2012
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Category Winners
Best International Game: Splice
Best Art in a Game: Toybox
Best Concept Art: Peleda
Best Audio in a Game: Lunar Flight
Best Technical Innovation: Automation
Best Writing in a Game: Flatland: Fallen Angle
2011
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Category Winners
Best Design: Antichamber
Best On-Paper Design: Dead Eye
Best Art: Warco
Best Concept Art: Firo
Best Technical Innovation: Kingspray
Best Game Writing: MacGuffin’s Curse
Best Audio: Solar 2
2010
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Category Winners
Best On-Paper Design: iCrazy Man
Best Art in a Game: Captain Forever (Series)
Best Concept Art: Exodus
Best Technical Innovation: Colourbind
Best Game Writing: Transumer
Best Audio: Train Conductor
Best International Game: Last Hope