Nominees
Since 2012 A MAZE. awards The Most Amazing Game. The winner is selected by an interdisciplinary, international and 100% independent jury. We extended and changed awards in the many years since, our categories are now: “Most Amazing Award”, “Human Human Machine Award”, “Long Feature Award”, “Digital Moment Award”, “Explorer Award” and “Audience Award” and the “Gender Diversity Award” presented by WINGS.
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 HUMAN MACHINE AWARD
This award goes to the best game that can be played by two or more people, and includes some digital element – fully analog games won’t be accepted.
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.
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.
Human:Level
Fabian Kühfuß
It's just a dream (don't worry)
Laurenz Riklin & Leander Leutzendorff
Lost on Mars
Trey Ramm
Gender Diversity Award presented by WINGS
This Award highlights games from women and gender marginalized developers, and awards 2.000€ to the chosen winner. To be considered for this award, games must be made by teams with women or gender marginalized developers in key positions. WINGS is proud to offer funding and opportunities to amplify voices less heard in the games industry.
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:
Categories
Most Amazing
Escape from Lavender Island by Jeremy Couillard (USA)
Player Non Player by Jonathan Coryn (France)
PRODUCER 2021 by Stuffed Wombat (Austria)
Scarlet Hollow by Black Tabby Games (United States of America)
SIGNALIS by rose-engine (Deutschland)
Human Human Machine
DISCORDANCE by Unwired Dance Theatre (UK)
King of the Castle by Tributary Games (United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, United States)
The Bureau of Multiversal Arbitration by Aconite (United States of America)
The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue by The MetaMovie (United States)
Yugo: the non-game by Petrit Hoxha (Kosovo)
Digital Moment
Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity by Sam Atlas (United States of America)
Mexico, 1921: A deep slumber by Macula Interactive (Mexico)
Mind Diver by Indoor Sunglasses (Denmark)
Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity (OMUI) by Kas Ghobadi, Julian Palacios (United States, Italy)
SCHiM by Extra Nice (Netherlands)
Long Feature
Flawless Abbey by CRITICAL REFLEX / Bed Head Games (Georgia)
Roller Drama by Open Lab (Italy)
SEASON: A letter to the future by Scavengers Studio (Canada)
South of the Circle by State of Play (UK)
The Forest Quartet by Mads & Friends (Denmark, Germany, Brazil)
Explorer
Human:Level by Fabian Kühfuß (Germany)
It's just a dream (don't worry) by Laurenz Riklin & Leander Leutzendorff (Austria)
Lost on Mars by Trey Ramm (United States of America)
opera - a future game by v. zur Mühlen/Köck/Bischoff/Miotk (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Viewfinder by Sad Owl Studios (United Kingdom, Philippines, United States, Norway, Spain, Finland)
Audience Award
Viewfinder by Sad Owl Studios - 113 votes
Lost on Mars by Trey Ramm - 94 votes
It's just a dream (Don't worry) by Laurenz Riklin & Leander Leutzendorff - 64 votes
Signalis by rose-engine - 61 votes
SCHiM by Extra Nice - 51 votes
WINGS Award