Excellence in Design

• art of rally – Funselektor
• Ring of Pain – Twice Different
• Room to Grow – Mischka Kamener
• Webbed – Sbug Games
• Wrestledunk Sports – Team Fractal Alligator

Excellence in Visual Art

• Completely Stretchy and Uncomfortably Sticky – Daniel Ferguson
• Parselings A Deckbuilding TTRPG – Smunchy Games
• Ring of Pain – Twice Different
• The Snowgardens – Anthony Cristiano
• Umurangi Generation – ORIGAME DIGITAL

Excellence in Audio

• art of rally – Funselektor
• Mealmates – magicdweedoo
• Neon Cyborg Cat Club – Edwin Montgomery
• Umurangi Generation – ORIGAME DIGITAL
• Webbed – Sbug Games

Excellence in Narrative

• A Long Goodbye – Dana McKay
• Detective Story – Ange Crawford
• Hard Wired Island – Weird Age Games
• UNDER A STAR CALLED SUN – Cecile Richard
• Villagesong – Storybrewers Roleplaying

Non-Digital Game Award

• Hard Wired Island – Weird Age Games
• Mausritter – Isaac Williams
• Rascals – Caradoc Games
• The Lighthouse At The Edge Of The Universe – Ella Lim
• Villagesong – Storybrewers Roleplaying

Micro-Game Award

• A Long Goodbye – Dana McKay
• Starjump – Luca Harris
• S̶p̶i̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ – Jack Wilson
• Terracotta – Olivia Haines
• UNDER A STAR CALLED SUN – Cecile Richard

Caitlin Cronin (VIC) is a producer, editor, writer, some-time presenter and full-time spreadsheet enthusiast. She’s been published in Kotaku and The Big Issue, sat on a number of judging panels, and worked in vast array of industries including games, government and publishing. Creator of the ACMI Gamers Club – a monthly meet-up dedicated to providing a space for underrepresented folks to meet and play video games – she is passionate about games as a medium for everyone.

Samantha E. Schaffer (SA) is an American artist and software developer based in Adelaide. Their passion is exploring the intersection of art and technology, as well as minimizing its barriers to entry to help others do the same. As an independent game developer, Sam creates art-games that blur the line between game and poetry. In their free time, they can be found wandering around taking photos, playing too much Pokemon Go, and judging you.

Demi Schänzel (NZ) is a small-time designer in the digital humanities, advocating for compassionate design practices and exploring the intersection between game design and online communication. With games often focussed on the kindred and intimate; Demi adores nothing more than to snuggle up over the computer with freshly-brewed coffee, and quietly code their mornings away.

Anthony Sweet (WA) is a writer and designer for strategy game specialist Black Lab Games. He also runs the Perth-based interactive writers’ group The Page, and has been involved in the WA games scene in one form or another for over a decade.

Edmond Tran (NSW) is the managing editor of ScreenHub. He was previously at GameSpot for 12 years, where he served as the Australian Editor.

Andrew Brophy (VIC) is a game designer from Melbourne. He is ½ of Hovergarden and ⅞ of the videogame Knuckle Sandwich.

Ngoc Vu (VIC) is a games artist who was born and raised in Melbourne and currently works as a character artist for Hindsight. She is most renown for her work as lead artist on Necrobarista, which was awarded for it’s artistic excellence at the 2020 AGDAs and Freeplay 2019. When not drafting concepts, 3D modelling, or animating for her current projects, Ngoc likes to have a good lie down with her 2 dogs.