SXSW Gaming Awards

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The SXSW Gaming Awards is a gaming award that has been presented since 2014 and is presented as part of the South by Southwest in Austin , Texas .

history

Video games have been part of the SXSW within the SXSW Interactive division since 2006 . In order to be able to cover the video game area at the event, Screenburn was founded this year , which was given its current name - SXSW Gaming - in 2013 .

Matthew Crump , a well-known game developer, joined the SXSW team in 2012 and worked on organizing an awards ceremony for the 2014 SXSW Festival. The SXSW Gaming Awards were announced in September 2013 and presented in fifteen categories. Crump, founder of the awards, died unexpectedly just before the first awards ceremony, so that the event organizers the category Cultural Innovation in Gaming in Matthew Crump Cultural Innovation Award renamed. In the years that followed, other categories were added to the award ceremony.

format

Game developers and game publishers must have submitted their potential candidates to the festival organizers within a specified time window. The games proposed for nomination must be published within the previous calendar year - if the awards were first presented in 2014, the games must have been launched in the previous year. The festival organizers and a committee consisting of experts from the game industry will select the five best games for each category from all entries. The winner of each category will then be determined in a public vote.

The exception to this is the Gamer's Voice Awards : In this category, only indie games that were published in the previous or the same year are allowed. In contrast to the other categories, the Gamer's Awards allow games to be proposed by people outside the committee. The committee in turn selects the best games from the proposed entries after a one-time playthrough, which are nominated in this category. The nominated games will be made available to play at the festival so that festival goers can select the winner.

The award ceremony will take place towards the end of the SXSW Festival.

Events

year Surname date place Moderator (s)
2014 SXSW Gaming Awards 2014 0March 7, 2014 Long Center for the Performing Arts Austin , Texas , United States
United StatesUnited States 		Smosh and iJustine
2015 SXSW Gaming Awards 2015 March 14, 2015 Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater Austin, Texas, United States
United StatesUnited States		 Janet Varney and Mark Fischbach
2016 SXSW Gaming Awards 2016 19th March 2016 Hilton Austin Downtown Austin, Texas, United States
United StatesUnited States		 Jacksepticeye and Rachel Quirico
2017 SXSW Gaming Awards 2017 18th March 2017 Hilton Austin Downtown Austin, Texas, United States
United StatesUnited States		 OMGitsfirefoxx and Xavier Woods
2018 SXSW Gaming Awards 2018 17th March 2018 Hilton Austin Downtown Austin, Texas, United States
United StatesUnited States		 Alanah Pearce and Rich Campbell

winner

Video Game of the Year :

Smartphone game of the year :

Tablet game of the year :

VR game of the year :

Excellence in Gameplay :

Excellence in Arts :

Excellence in animation :

Excellence in Visual Achievement :

Excellence in Technical Achievement :

Excellence in Narrative :

Excellence in Design and Direction :

Excellence in Game Marketing :

Excellence in SFX :

Excellence in Musical Score :

Excellence in Multiplayer :
by 2016: Best Multiplayer Game

Excellence in Convergence :
until 2016: Convergence Award

Texas Arts Achievement :

Matthew Crump Cultural Innovation Award :

Most Valuable Character :

ESports game of the year :

Most Valuable ESports Team :

Most Valuable Online Channel :

Most Entertaining Online Personality :

  • 2014–2015: not awarded
  • 2016: Greg Miller, Kinda Funny
  • 2017–2018: not awarded

Most Valuable Add-On Content :

  • 2014: not awarded
  • 2015: Left Behind, The Last of Us
  • 2016–2018: not awarded

Most anticipated crowdfunded game :

  • 2014: not awarded
  • 2015: Star Citizen
  • 2016–2018: not awarded

Most Fulfilling Crowdfunded Game :

Most Promising New Intellectual Property :

Trending Game of the Year :

  • 2014–2016: not awarded
  • 2017: Overwatch
  • 2018: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)

Fan Creation of the Year :

  • 2014–2016: not awarded
  • 2017: Brutal Doom 64, Sergeant_Mark_IV
  • 2018: not awarded

Gamer's Voice Award :
general :

Multiplayer :

Single player :

  • 2016: Superhot , Superhot Team
  • 2017: Owlboy , D-Pad Studio
  • 2018: not awarded

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matt Clark: SXSW Interactive: A Growing Outlet For Video Games ( Memento of May 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in iQU , March 14, 2012. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Samit Sarkar: SXSW Gaming Expo coordinator, developer Matthew Crump dies . In: polygon . March 3, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Dave Tact: SXSW Gaming Expo adding Gaming Awards in 2014 . In: polygon . September 12, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ James Renovich: SXSW Gaming Awards Winners . In: Austin Chronicle . March 8, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b SXSW Gaming Awards . SXSW . Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ Second Annual SXSW Gaming Awards Announces Top Winners in 21 Categories . South by Southwest . March 14, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  7. ^ Tucker Whatley: SXSW Gaming Awards Finalists Announced . In: Austin Chronicle . January 26, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  8. ↑ Brandon Krajewski: SXSW Gaming Awards Voting Ends Soon . In: IGN Entertainment . February 6, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  9. ↑ 2018 SXSW Gaming Awards Winners Revealed . In: IGN Entertainment . March 18, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2018.