Mooneaters selected as NGDC wild card

On 28 November, at the upcoming Game Wave Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, the Nordic Game Discovery Contest Season VI will end with a thrilling final competition between three selected game studios. Not to be missed, but there’s still some way to go before the three finalists can be revealed.

First up is the season’s wild card, selected by the NGDC board of experts. In a submission round of game projects of the highest quality, Mooneaters from Poland who took the NGDC Season VI wild card seat with their game Everdream Valley.

Everdream Valley is an open-world farming adventure game, with the inventive twist that the player can take on the role of various animals living in the valley.

Big congrats to Mooneaters who now join the NGDC Season VI Grand Finals, with two more teams to be selected to compete this November before a live audience for the prestigious NGDC Game of the Year title.

The NGDC Season VI Grand Finals take place on 28 November as part of the Game Wave Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. Learn more and register for the event right here!

NGDC Season VI is sponsored by Xsolla, Tencent Games, GTR, Nordic Game Ventures and ifairs, in partnership with Games Branding and 80 Level.

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About the Game Wave Festival
The Game Wave Festival (GWF) is an international hybrid games industry event that balances education, business and fun in equal measure. 2022 is the second year for the Game Wave Festival, and the organisers welcome all to this November’s venue, the Tallink Spa & Conference Hotel in Tallinn, Estonia.

Learn more and register today at www.gamewave.eu.
 
On-stage NGDC

About the Nordic Game Discovery Contest
In 2016, building on fourteen years of organising successful games industry activities, including the annual Nordic Game conference, regional funding programs, overseas networking events and other developer support initiatives, Nordic Game launched the Nordic Game Discovery Contest (NGDC) – an exciting series of events where selected game projects are showcased live in pitch competitions at partner events across Europe and around the globe – and concluding its sixth season this fall.

Learn more NGDC Season VI qualifiers, wild cards and finals, and get all the latest results at discovery-contest.nordicgame.com!
 
Nordic Game Helsinki

About the Nordic Game conference
Nordic Game is the leading games conference in Europe, and 2022 marks its twenty-first and twenty-second editions, as well as our return to historic Slagthuset and debut in Helsinki. Gathering thousands of industry professionals in the spring and autumn each year, Nordic Game is the one and only “home turf” meeting place for the highly successful game developers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

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