I'm ecstatic these days!Ã, ;D ;D ;D
Tuesday night I was awarded the Golden Joystick Trophy at the Nordic Games Conference in Malmö, Sweden! A game I made won the In the People's ServiceÃ, Game Competition (http://nordicgame.alphacrisis.com/index.php?option=com_contentask=view&id=38&Itemid=3&lang=en), and I got a bunch of prizes: a super cool new casemodded powergamer pc, bundles of games, software and pro licenses for game development tools, free office space, and money and industry contacts that will help me start a game company. It's overwhelming, I've been interviewed for the radio and magazines, and finally feel somewhat reassured that my games are being noticed.
Værdikamp(battle of values), the game (http://www.dr.dk/Spilkonkurrence/Forside.htm) is now hosted at the Danish national radio and television service's game site, but it's in Danish, so only the Scandinavians here will understand it. It's a fairly simple flash game where players fight the evil mind police in lifting censorship on thoughts in the 'Outer Mediasphere'. The players are then asked questions about the thoughts they free from censorship, and asked to express their own opinions on them. Players' opinions are remembered so as to update the overall statistics on how people relate to different thoughts, ideas and dilemmas. Players can also enter their own thoughts that will then become part of the game. Simple concept, but potentially an interesting sort of uncontrolled sociological experiment.
Next year, this competition will be open for participants from all the nordic countries, so bear it in mind - winning or just entering the contest is a sure way of attracting attention from the industry, academia, press and fellow developers. My thanks to this community for all I've learned, and still hope to learn, here - and for AGS, the first tool that made it seem even remotely possible that I couldÃ, be making my own games.
First of all congrats about all of this! I can almost smell your exstasy!!!!!!!!!!
Now, on to the major question: which of your games won? :D Other than that... again congrats and I envy you ;)
Thanks Nikolas, this game it is: VærdiKamp (http://apache.drung.codecube.dk/spil/vaerdikamp/)Ã, :D
Quote from: fred on Thu 21/09/2006 09:00:12
Værdikamp(battle of values), the game (http://www.dr.dk/Spilkonkurrence/Forside.htm) is now hosted at the Danish national radio and television service's game site, but it's in Danish, so only the Scandinavians here will understand it.
I am a Scandinavian, but I can't understand the language :-\. Oh, maybe you meant the Scandinavians there...
Sound like interesting concept and looks nice though.
Yes, most scandinavians understand either danish, swedish or bokmål norwegian - three very similar languages, if you can read one, you can read the others. The conference language was english, though, since people from all over the world attended ;)
Zabnat, where are you from, seen as you don't understand danish and claim to be scandinavian?
Awesome! Congratulations - that sounds like one of the best prizes in the world!!
I've tried the game but really don't understand it! :p
Thanks :D The prize is overwhelming, and next year it will be even bigger when the contest is opened to all nordic countries and more sponsors are attracted. Btw. I think I'll be making an English version of the game sometime soon.
Congrats!!! ;D
Thanks 2ma2 :)