Check out this week’s earlier 2017 Nordic Game Awards announcements: “Audio” and “Fun for Everyone” nominees here, “Debut” and “Technology” nominees here and “Game Design” and “Art” nominees here.
A highlight of the annual Nordic Game conference, this year’s edition of the Nordic Game Awards takes place in the Unreal Theatre, the main auditorium of Slagthuset, on Thursday, 18 May at 18:00.
Host of the show Niels Forsberg will hand out prizes in eight categories, with the nominated games announced this week – concluding today with “Nordic GotY – Small Screen” and “Nordic GotY”:
Nordic Game of the Year – Small Screen
Nordic studios make great games in all formats, and mobile platforms in particular have seen many stellar Nordic titles. Some of the latest standouts have been nominated for the “Nordic GotY – Small Screen” award, including Supercell’s smash hit Clash Royale.
Clapper, Bridgeside Interactive (SE)
Clash Royale, Supercell (FI)
Mekorama, Martin Magni (SE)
Space Marshals 2, Pixelbite Games (SE)
Twofold Inc., Grapefrukt Games (SE)
Nordic Game of the Year
Nordic GotY – the most prestigious award of the show and highpoint of the 2017 Nordic Game Awards. A fun fact is that nearly all of the nominated studios have previously taken the stage at Nordic Game. This year, Playdead opens NG17 with an “insider” tech talk about their multiple award-winning title INSIDE (here), veteran hit-maker IO Interactive will delve into the AI of Hitman (here), Massive Entertainment CEO David Polfeldt joins legendary Japanese game designer Fumito Ueda in a much anticipated “fireside chat” (here), while both EA DICE and Owlboy creator Jo-Remi Madsen have spoken at past Nordic Game conferences.
Battlefield 1, EA DICE (SE)
Clash Royale, Supercell (FI)
Hitman, IO Interactive (DK)
INSIDE, Playdead (DK)
Owlboy, D-Pad Studio (NO)
Tom Clancy’s The Division, Massive Entertainment (SE)
Congratulations to all the nominees for the 2017 Nordic Game Awards. See you at the show!
About the Nordic Game Awards
The Nordic Game Awards is organised by the Nordic Game Institute in cooperation with Nordic Game Resources and the Nordic Game event team.
The Nordic Game Institute consists of the following game producer associations in the region: Dataspelsbranschen (SE), Icelandic Gaming Industry (IS), Neogames (FI), Spillprodusentforeningen (NO) and Producentforeningen (DK).
The organisers appoint the NGA jury, this year with the following members: Bjarki Thor Jónsson (Iceland), Juho Kuorikoski (Finland), Rune Fjell Olsen (Norway), Niklas Sintorn (Sweden) and Astrid Mie Refstrup (Denmark).
About the Nordic Game conference
Nordic Game is the leading games conference in Europe, and 2017 is its fourteenth year. Gathering over 2,000 games industry professionals in Malmö annually, Nordic Game is the one and only “home turf” meeting place for the highly successful game developers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Expect much, much more at Nordic Game 2017. So don’t delay – put 17-19 May at Slagthuset in Malmö in your calendar now and register today!
