MOST AMAZING AWARD
The grand prize of the A MAZE. awards goes to the most relevant, forward-thinking interactive and playful content. We premiere the best work overall - in terms of art, innovation, music, story and interaction. the prize is dedicated to the masterpiece of the award selection that shows us a path we never walked before.
HUMAN MACHINE AWARD
This award goes to the best game that can be played by two or more people in the same room, and includes some digital element – fully analog games won’t be accepted.
Map to Utopia
Fringe ensemble / Platform theatre
PC, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
LONG FEATURE AWARD
This is the award for complex games and developing virtual reality worlds. Those are the ones, who challenge your life by offering immersive storytelling and much more than 2hrs gameplay.
DIGITAL MOMENT AWARD
This is the Award for poems, statements, experiments, short experiences – expressions of socio-critical messages, personal or comedic life situations and feelings through an interactive medium. Maybe a sensual mechanic, a toy that gives the player a surprising twist in their experience.
Search Questival
terry.pogger, ncthbrt, tiffanyjoyschouw, Jumping Back Slash and Search Festival team
PC, Mac
EXPLORER AWARD
Go, where nobody has gone before! This is the award for all forms of experiences beyond the boundaries of contemporary ways to play or develop games. Here, we are exploring alternative controllers, interactive installations, creative coding experiments, robotics and tech performances, as well as interdisciplinary teams, collaborations with science, makers, engineers, researchers, theater and writers.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Sadly, we can just have 25 nominees, but the following works are still absolutely worth to check out! Keep an eye out for the honourable mentions:
HUMBLE NEW TALENT
The Humble New Talent Award highlights important new voices in the culture of games. Nominees are selected by A MAZE. and will not be awarded for one game specifically, but their overall work and thoughts. Winners will be awarded with $15.000 to create a Humble Original.
David Cribb
Australia
Luna Nemo and Mariano Falzone
Argentina, United Kingdom
Phoebe Shalloway
United States of America
Shannon Jahnel Lanktree and Sam Bunny
New Zealand
Yuliya Kozhemyako
Russian Federation