“A total of 15 excellent games of the month in 2021, awarded the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award at the awards ceremony on the 10th”
“Benefits such as registration of nominations for the 2021 Korea Game Awards, promotion of winning works and follow-up support”
“Indie game category ▲ ‘Mother Solo: Everyone Is Born Solo’ by ‘Indie Kava Interactive’ and ▲ ‘Do Shindos Work Overtime?’ by ‘Meet and Grit’ were selected”
Hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Hwang Hee), Electronic Newspaper (CEO Gu Guo Mo), The Games Daily (CEO Mo In), Naver (CEO Han Seong Sook), and hosted by the Korea Creative Content Agency (CEO Cho Hyun-rae, hereafter Konjinwon), ‘2021 of the Month’ Excellent Game Awards’ was held on November 10th at the Korea Conference Center in Gangnam, Seoul.
‘Excellent Game of the Month’ is a project that has been conducted since 1997 to discover and award excellent games in Korea to revitalize game creation and inspire game companies to produce them.
◆ 4 general games , 1 functional game , 2 indie games , a total of 7 excellent games in the second half of the year
Prior to the awards ceremony, a total of 7 works were selected as excellent games in the ▲general game, functional game, and indie game categories through expert evaluation and a total of 13,132 game user voting results in the second half of this year as well as in the first half of this year.
In the case of general games, in the blockbuster category, ▲’Lion Heart Studios’ ▲ ▲’Netmarble Neo’s , and in the frontier category, ▲’ Hagin A total of four works received the award for of ‘ and of ‘Aircap Co., Ltd.’.
▲ of ‘Two Hands Interactive’ was selected in the functional game category aimed at fun, education, awareness improvement, and problem solving at the same time. In addition, in the indie game sector, which targets games with less than 10 people in game development, ▲’Mother Solo: Everyone Is Born Solo’ by ‘Indicaba Interactive’, ▲’Meet & Grit”s Two works were selected.
Meanwhile, in the first half of the month, the Best Game of the Month award winners in the general game category ▲ of ‘Netmarble Nexus Co., Ltd.’ ▲ of ‘Wemade’ ▲ ▲’Debsisters’ , functional game section ▲’Studio 806”s ▲’Gemblo Co., Ltd.’s , indie game section ▲’Funny Eve’ A total of 8 works were selected, including by ‘ and by ‘Father Maid’.
◆ All of this year’s best K-Games… Held on the 10th of the ’21st Game of the Month Awards Ceremony’
At the ‘Excellent Game of the Month Awards Ceremony in 2021’, awards were given to all 15 excellent games in the first and second half of the year. In addition, an experience zone was prepared at the event site on this day so that the various aspects of the 15 excellent games could be learned.
The selected winners were awarded the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award and are automatically registered as candidates for the ‘2021 Korea Game Awards’. In addition, you can receive various awards and publicity support, such as ▲production of game promotion videos ▲additional points when applying for industrial technical personnel in the game field ▲opportunity to promote through game-specialized media.
Kwon Kwon Ahn, CEO of ‘Studio 806’, who attended the awards ceremony that day, said, ” was made with a sense of mission to not lose fun as a game while illuminating social issues.” “Through this award, interest in functional games I hope this continues, and I will devote myself to making better games in the future.”
Hyuk-soo Kim, Head of Game Division at Conjinwon said, “Through the Best Game of the Month in 2021, we were able to meet K-games of various platforms and genres, from mobile games to AR games and board games. We will do our best to promote and follow-up support.”
