Neowiz announced on the 27th that it held the ‘BEX Awards’, an awards ceremony for the ‘Room Corner Indie Game Show 2022’ (hereinafter referred to as BEX 2022), the domestic indie game festival held in August.
The awards ceremony was held at the Seoul Startup Hub M Plus Center at 2 pm on the 26th. In this BIX Awards, 11 games were selected from a total of 5 categories including the top 3 in the released category (G-Rank Challenge Seoul Prize), the top 2 in the unreleased category, as well as the jury award, encouragement award, and popularity award by adding up the judges’ evaluation and the votes of the audience. done. The total prize money is 16 million won.
In the top 3 of the ▲G-Rank Challenge Seoul Awards presented by the Seoul Industry Promotion Agency, ‘Hide and Seek’ of Growing Seeds, ‘Ocean’ of Regensoft, and ‘Ira’ of ABShot received the honor of receiving the award. Also, in the top two unreleased categories awarded by the Gyeonggi Content Agency, Olympus’s ‘Sky Island’ and Soeun Game’s ‘Commuting Rally’ were awarded.
In addition to this, ▲ 2oclocksoft’s ‘Final Night’ in the Jury Prize category, Kassel Games’ Retopia ▲ For your well-being by Gamsung Games in the Encouragement Prize category, Hoit Studio’s ‘Sea of Death’ ▲Popularity category: PepperStones’ ‘Wetory, Rain Co., Ltd.’ Fax’s ‘Beat the Beat!’ was added to the award list.
On the other hand, BIX 2022, which is in its third year this year, is a game festival prepared to support indie game companies who are having difficulties in publicity in the Corona situation. It is co-hosted by Neowiz, Gyeonggi Content Agency, and Seoul Industry Promotion Agency, and Seoul Metropolitan City, Gyeonggi Province, Google Play Indie Festival, Twitch, Megazone Cloud Inven, Ruri Web, and Iron Source participated as sponsors.
A Neowiz official said, “Through the indie game show in every corner, we have confirmed once again that there are many talented developers who make interesting games.