2nd Emotional Games Awards results announced; Hellblade wins with a fell swoop

The 2nd edition of the Emotional Games Awards, something that we had been monitoring closely, took place on Friday, March 2 in Laval, France. With the sole purpose of awarding video games that bring out the most complex emotions from within the players, the list of nominees was filled with worthy contenders.

In case you would like to know who the nominations were then you can head to this link - https://goo.gl/dd3uay

The jury was composed of many capable personalities from the video game industry as well as philosophers. A full list and brief description of the jury members can be found here - https://goo.gl/5a5fGp

2nd Emotional Games Awards winners

Best Emotional Game : Hellblade : Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)

Best Emotional Artistic Achievement : Old Man’s Journey  (Broken Rules)

Best Emotional Game Design : Cultist Simulator (Weather Factory)

Best Emotional Music : Inside  (Martin Stig Andersen-Playdead)

Best Emotional Indie Game : _Observer_ (Bloober Team)

Best Emotional VR Game : Lone Echo (Ready at Dawn)

Best Emotional Mobile & Handheld Game : Bury me, my love (The Pixel Hunt/ Arte / Figs / Playdius)

Nominees for the Emotional Games Awards 2018 announced

The second edition of the Emotional Games Awards will take place in Laval, France on Friday March 2. The Emotional Games awards reward video games which bring on the most emotions in the players and we had recently seen the panel of judges for Emotional Game Awards 2018.

Nominees for the Emotional Games Awards 2018 are:

Best Emotional Game Nominees 

• Abzû (Giant Squid-505 Games)
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Ninja Theory Ltd.)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla-Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Inside (Playdead)
• Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Deck Nine Games-Square Enix)
• The First Tree (David Wehle)

Best Emotional Artistic Game Achievement Nominees 

• A.L.F.R.E.D (ISART Digital- Miyu Distribution - Sève Films)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla-Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Inside (Playdead)
• Last Day of June (Ovosonico-505 Games)
• Old Man's Journey (Broken Rules)
• Robinson : the Journey (Crytek)

Best Emotional Game Design Nominees 

• Abzû (Giant Squid-505 Games)
• Cultist Simulator (Weather Factory)
• Dee Zaster on Monster Island (Glance Creative Ltd.-Prime Apps Ltd.)
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Ninja Theory Ltd.)
• Inside (Playdead)
• Pyre (Supergiant Games)

Best Emotional VR Game Nominees

• Lone Echo (Ready At Dawn)
• Robinson : the Journey (Crytek)
• Statik (Tarsier Studios)

Best Emotional Mobile & Handheld Nominees 

• Ana the Game (Almost Games Studio-Plug in digital)
• Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story (Accidental Queens - Playdius)
• Bury me, my love (The Pixel Hunt - Playdius)
• Is it Love? Mystery Spell - Peter (1492 Studio)
• Old Man's Journey (Broken Rules)
• Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako-San! (Christophe Galati - Nicalis)

Best Emotional Music Nominees 

• Far from noise (George Batchelor)
• Inside (Playdead)
• Little Nightmares (Tarsier Studios-Namco Bandai Entertainement Europe)
• Perception (The Deep End Games)
• Spike: Under the Leaves (ISART Digital-Miyu Distribution - Sève Films)
• The first Tree (David Wehle)

Best Emotional Indie Game Nominees 

• Another Lost Phone : Laura's Story (Accidental Queens - Playdius)
• Along the edge (Nova-box)
• Far from noise (George Batchelor)
• Epistory - Typing Chronicles (Fishing Castus)
• _observer_ (Bloober team)
• Perception (The Deep Endgames)
• Past Cure (Phantom 8)

Audience Choice 

But that is not all. You can help make your favourite game get an award and recognition at the Emotional Game Award 2018 by voting online. All games nominated are eligible.

Online vote begins Friday, February 9 on the website http://www.emotionalgamesawards.com/

Emotional Games Awards 2018 jury members revealed

The 2nd edition of the Emotional Games Awards will take place on Friday the 2nd of March 2018 in Laval, France. A jury of professionals will give prizes to reward the video games which cause the strongest emotions. Names of some members of this jury have already been announced:

Wael Amr founded Frogwares in 2000, an independent video game development studio based in Ukraine. Its first adventure game was released in 2002 : Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy. The first in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.

Mark Cecere  has over 15 years of experience in the video game industry in Canada. After a BA from Concordia University, he has worked for 8 years at Eidos and for 12 years as a freelance game designer. He joined Warner Bros Games Montreal as Narrative Designer and Game Writer in 2016.

Laura Glibert has a master degree in cognitive psychology. She was part of the Research & Development team at Ubisoft UR Lab. She has worked on many games ( Assassin's Creed Origins, Far Cry 5, The Crew 2,Tom Clancy's). She’s now Game User Researcher at Sony Playstation in London.

Damien Mayance is a French indie game and software developer. He is also the co-founder of Pixelnest Studio in 2013, where he created Steredenn and numerous other projects.

Swann Pichon is a scientific investigator at the University of Geneva. His research is to understand how emotional states and personality traits contribute to affective functioning. He is also working on adapting the technology of video-games for training specific brain functions.

As a graphic designer, but also producer, Jehanne Rousseau has worked for 17 years in the video game industry. In 2008, she is the co-founder of Spiders, an independent video game development studio producing its own creations (The technomancer, Greedfall) as well as offering full productions for third parties.

Mathieu Triclot is a french philosopher, specialised in history of science and technology. He develops his reflection on video games, with his book Philosophy of video games. He is a lecturer at the Belfort-Montbéliard University of Technology.