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Rockfish Games is building with you Everspace 2 the best game of the year: These are the winners at the German Computer Game Awards 2024.
The German Computer Game Prize 2024 was awarded yesterday Thursday evening in the Eisbach Studios in the east of Munich.
Three of the 15 categories – “Best Debut”, Audio Design and Story – and thus €140,000 in prize money went to the Berlin developer Hekate and publisher Nacon Ad infinitum. The main prize of €100,000 for the 'Best German Game' goes to the Hamburg studio Rockfish Games, which specializes in the space game Everspace 2 against strong competitors like Deck13 Interactive (Atlas traps) and Critical Rabbit (Fall of Porcupine) has enforced.
Katrin Bauerfeind and Uke Bosse once again moderated the two and a half hour show – the laudatory speeches included Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), music YouTuber Marti Fischer, comedian Maxi Gstettenbauer and the Parliamentary State Secretary for Economic Affairs Michael Kellner (Greens).
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Further articles and analyzes about the German Computer Game Prize 2024 will follow later today.
Best German game (worth €100,000): Everspace 2 (Rockfish Games)
The other nominees will each receive €30,000:
- Atlas traps (Deck 13 Interactive / Focus Entertainment)
- Fall of Porcupine (Critical Rabbit / Assemble Entertainment)
Young Talent Award Best Debut (worth 60,000 euros): Ad infinitum (Hekate / Nacon)
Two nominees will each receive €25,000:
- Fall of Porcupine (Critical Rabbit/Assemble Entertainment)
- Loosen CTRL (Play From Your Heart)
Young Talent Award Best Prototype (€50,000): Misgiven (Symmetry Break Studio)
Four nominees will each receive €25,000:
- Bloodletter (Katharina “Mikey” Müller, David Cafisso, Marvin Braun, Alica Schneider/Berlin University of Technology and Economics)
- EcoGnomix (Lars Hinnerk Grevsmühl, Lars Eble, Bahy Nguyen, Marcel Zurawka, Alec Shae)
- Footgun: Underground (Eduard Dobermann, Theo Lohmüller, Georg Nimke, Robert Pistea, Lukas Salewsky)
- Replicore (Sarah Inés Roeder, Rody Nawezi, Leonhard Glasses, Maximilian Götz/ HAW Hamburg)
- Best Innovation and Technology (€40,000): Marble Maze (Fox Assembly)
- Best Serious Game (€40,000): Friedrich Ebert – The path to democracy (Playing History / Reich President Friedrich Ebert Memorial Foundation)
- Best Family Game (€40,000): Spells & Secrets (Alchemist Interactive / Rokaplay)
- Best Audio Design (€40,000): Ad infinitum (Hekate / Nacon)
- Best Game Design (€40,000): Loosen CTRL (Play From Your Heart)
- Best Graphic Design (€40,000): The Bear – A Story from the World of Gra (Muck! Games)
- Best Mobile Game (€40,000): Cat rescue story (Tivola Games)
- Best Story (€40,000): Ad infinitum (Hekate / Nacon)
- Studio of the Year (€50,000): Pixel Maniacs
- Player of the Year (unpaid): Maurice Weber
- Best International Game (unfunded): Baldur's Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
- Special Jury Prize (€10,000): Gaming without limits