Winners of GamesPreis25 Announced

A total of ten prizes, including two special prizes, were awarded at the GamesPreis25 Awards as part of the GamesFestival in Munich. The festival is aimed specifically at young talent.

The winners of the GamesPreis25 were honoured at this year's GamesFestival. The prize honours outstanding projects by young people from Bavaria relating to games and digital games culture. Four awards were awarded in each of two age categories – for finished games, prototypes and contributions to digital games culture. Two special awards also went to projects with previously unseen, invisible or overlooked stories, game mechanics, characters or design elements with the special prize The Unseen.

The GamesPreis25 is part of the GamesFestival, which is organised by the ComputerSpielAkademie at the Munich Media Centre of the JFF - Institut für Medienpädagogik (Institute for Media Education) and the Bayerischer Jugendring (Bavarian Youth Council). It is sponsored by the Bavarian State Ministry for Family, Labour and Social Affairs, the Social Department/City Youth Office/Youth Cultural Office and the Cultural Department of the City of Munich, as well as Games/Bavaria.

The GamesPreis25 Winner

Category 1 to 18 years

• Finished Game: Be Silent (Jakob Schlapschy, Freising)
  
• Prototype: TheFloor (Felice, Julian und Julia, Albrecht-Altdorfer-Gymnasium Regensburg)
  
• Digital gaming culture: Radiosendung zu Videospielmusik – Nelson O’Dea (Dein LiFE Redaktion, Medienzentrum Munich, JFF)
  
• Digital gaming culture: Biosphere Guardians 2050 (Teeanger from Kempten, Wales, Ireland & Italy)

Category 19 to 26 years

• Finished Game: Exhibit A (Slothmotion – students of Mediadesign Hochschule from Munich and Landshut)
  
• Prototyp: Clair (AIDA – students Game Development, TH Augsburg)
  
• Digital gaming culture: Die Zukunft von Headbangers: Rhythm Royal (Marius Reitter alias Zckrfrk, Munich)
  
• Digital gaming culture: Sanguis (Brainsaw – students of the Universität Bayreuth)

Special Award The Unseen

• Fang-tastic Heist (Unusual Pixel – students of Mediadesign Hochschule Munich)
  
• This Place Saves Lives (Rainieday – students from Munich)

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