Check out the highlights from the Indie Games Festival
Every year Google Play, hosts the Indie Games Festival, a competition that rewards high quality indie games with promotional opportunities and supports small mobile games developers. We also host the Indie Games Accelerator, an educational and mentorship program to help high potential studios grow their business.
Last weekend, some of the best indie game creators from Europe, South Korea and Japan, as well as players from around the world, got together at the Festival’s finals. At this interactive virtual event, players had the chance to discover these creative games, meet the people who made them and had a lot of fun exploring, collecting swag and cheering on their favorites.
We also revealed the Top 10 finalists and Festival winners in each region, as well as the studios selected to join the Indie Games Accelerator class of 2021.
Without further ado, here are the winners!
Indie Games Festival Winners
Europe
Bird Alone by George Batchelor, United Kingdom
Cats in Time by Pine Studio, Croatia
Gumslinger by Itatake, Sweden
Korea
CATS & SOUP by HIDEA
Rush Hour Rally by Soen Games
The Way Home by CONCODE
Users’ Choice aware: Animal Doll Shop by Funnyeve
Japan
Mousebusters by Odencat
Quantum Transport by ruccho
Survivor's guilt by aso
Student Category Award: Japanese Train Drive Simulator 2 "OneMan2" by HAKOT
Indie Games Accelerator Class of 2021
Americas
Aoca Game Lab, Brazil
Berimbau Game Studio, Brazil
Boomware Studio, Peru
Concrete Software, USA
Delotech Games, Brazil
DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc., USA
Ingames, Argentina
Ludare Games Group Inc., Canada
Whitethorn Games, USA
Europe, Middle East & Africa
Cleverside Ltd, Belarus
Dali Games, Poland
Firegecko Ltd, United Kingdom
Hot Siberians, Russia
Infinity Games, Portugal
Itatake, Sweden
Jimjum Studios, Israel
LIVA Interactive, Tunisia
Pale Blue Interactive, South Africa
Pine Studio, Croatia
Platonic Games, Spain
SMOKOKO LTD, Bulgaria
Spooky House Studios, Germany
Asia Pacific
Banjiha Games, South Korea
CATS BY STUDIO, South Korea
dc1ab pte. Ltd., Singapore
Dreams & Co., Thailand
Gamestacy Entertainment, India
izzle Inc., South Korea
Limin Development and Investment Joint Stock Company, Vietnam
Mugshot Games Pty Ltd, Australia
Odencat Inc., Japan
Playbae, India
Xigma Games, India
XOGAMES Inc., South Korea
YOMI Studio, Vietnam
Thank you to everyone who participated and congratulations to the selected games and studios. Stay tuned for more updates on @GooglePlayDev.
